And for the next open day, why not a talk on Simon, the shoemaker, whose workshop still stands at the Athenian Agora? pleiades.stoa.org/places/98272..., and an accompanying visit to a modern shop?
Indeed! A so-called non-sense inscription! Check the entry at the AVI database
www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchfor...
And also
Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 60, FIG.8 (A)
Eleusis: Magnificent dedicatory inscription to the Two Goddesses and Emperor Hadrian by the Panhellenes
#Romanhistory #romanemperor
@brickclassicists.bsky.social Warwick are honoured to be hosting this year's International Lego Classicism Day, the 10th celebration of all things Classics (and Lego). #InternationalLEGOClassicismDay
@profyarrow.bsky.social there is a good discussion of the coin shovel by Beckmann in the AJN. 👍 😁
today is a day I get to teach coinage and that is ALWAYS a good day! One of today's discussion points below: a decadrachm of Syracuse signed by Kimon circa 405-400, AR 36 mm, 43.34 g, with a charioteer being crowned by Nike on one side and the nymph Arethusa surrounded by dolphins on the other..
One of the very few images of Amminus, an #IronAge ruler from the area of Kent, who might have been the person #Suetonius tells us fled across the Channel to seek aid from #Caligula c. AD 40. This is the first example recorded with @findsorguk.bsky.social #FindsFriday
finds.org.uk/database/art...
Many tha!nks to the BSA, our sponsors, our students and the invited lecturers! See you all again in two years' time!
The biannual BSA course in Greek numismatics was held in March 2025. Students learnt about all aspects of ancient Greek coinage, enjoying the use of the coin collection of the BSA, as well as the coin collections housed in ASCSA, the Agora, the Numismatic Museum and the Bank of Greece.
