@cypriotartleeds
Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. ECR Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London and Associate Lecturer in Classics at the Open University.
I quite often start emails 'I hope you are well', because I hope the recipient is well, and it strikes me as more polite than launching straight into a request. Hoping I am not a bot.
Blue horizon
Hastings lit up for the evening as the last light fades.
Dinner on the beach at Hastings as the light gathers and fades (chips not shown).
Heading to Hastings on the trail of Annie Brassey, seeking answers to my final questions as I write up her ancient Cypriot collection. Plus, museums!
Couldn't agree more. There is some fantastic work being done in related fields, which deserves to be more widely known - see, for example, research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
Let’s bear in mind the % of reduction in museum jobs since Covid, the mass closure of libraries in the UK during Conservative austerity, etc. Most institutions don’t even have a full catalogue of holdings, due to lack of resource. 👏Fund us to do the work that needs doing and we will happily do it👏
Audio armchair
How charming to be read some Jane Austen at Beningbrough Hall.
Couldn’t resist going to visit this little moufflon myself 😍
Taking time out to explore slow scholarship at UCL courtesy of @britishacademy.bsky.social - what a great way to spend a Friday.
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Two images of ceramic human form figurines. The text reads: Day 15 of 200: Two for one today with some more artefacts from our permanent display in the Leventis Gallery. Ceramic figurine fragments, consisting of the right hand and wrist (image on right) &male torso, unclothed, preserved from the very base of the neck to the waist area and with one right arm surviving (image on left). Both from the Cypro-Geometric Period (1050–750 BC). More in the caption!
🏺 image 2: UCL 4267 Hollow ceramic figurine fragment with the right part of a male torso, unclothed, preserved from the very base of the neck to the waist area and with one right arm surviving. The arm has been hand modelled and is separated from the torso. It is bent at the elbow, with the wrist turned inwards and the hand curled around a cylindrical object. The base of the object is broken and missing; it could be the pommel of a sword.
🏺 image 3: The hand is held flat, with the thumb broken off at its base, separate from the four fingers. The tip of the middle finger is missing. The fingers have pointed tips; the nails are not indicated.
Day 15 of 200: Two for one today with some more artefacts from our permanent display in the Leventis Gallery. Both from the Cypro-Geometric Period (1050–750 BC). More on the image and over on Instagram!
#UCL200
Advert for mummified rat
Back in the classified ads from 1907 and slightly troubled by this offer of a ‘mummified rat, perfect, taken from Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, splendid specimen, 7/6’. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social do you want it for the collection…?
A prancing pig! 😍
Shameless publicity warning ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Soon to be available on potted-history.co.uk
A good and interesting question! I'm writing a book which will answer it :)
A Very Good Pig.
A herd of pigs!
Oh, they are GORGEOUS!
Apparently it’s National Pig Day, which is all the excuse I need to re-post this adorable ancient Cypriot pig rattle from Portsmouth Museum.
Bazaar, Exchange and Mart 4 Dec 1926
Just for you!
Tracing the footprints of dealers, objects and collectors through the pages of the ‘Bazaar, Exchange and Mart’ - this is just part of the 1920s! 😱
Many books on a trolley
That is a good British Library haul 😍
Fabulous illustration of this vessel from Coldstream’s article - a field of gambolling moufflon!
Off to the British Library to rummage through an eclectic selection of publications - looking for evidence of museum donations, the role of Crown agents, antiquities collecting in the Exchange and Mart, and sensory archaeology.
Georgette Heyer
Virginia Woolf
Tana French
Kate Atkinson
A.S. Byatt...
Photo of a red ceramic zoomorphic shape of a sheep or mouflon possible a rattle. Text reads: Day 8 of 200:r Ceramic vase in the form of a wild sheep, or moufflon, Red Polished ca 1900BC - 1650BC Cyprus UCL 844
Day 8 of 200: Ceramic vase in the form of a wild sheep, or moufflon, 1900BC - 1650BC. UCL 844
Ceramic zoomorphic vessel, identified as a moufflon 🐏 possibly designed as a rattle Red polished III ware.
Early Cypriot III - Middle Cypriot ca. 1900 BC-1650 BC 2nd phase Cypriot Bronze Age.
#UCL200
If you want to hear more about this research I’m speaking @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social this Tuesday!
If you are in London it would be great to see some familiar faces, or you can join on-line.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Lovely review of our edited volume 'Empire and excavation.
Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960' by Georgia Andreou in Levant www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The edited volume is available to read online for free via Sidestone Press' website.
Comes up on both for me, but devices differ! My phone specialises in making links unclickable, for some reason.
Imperative!
To be fair, the cost is there on the landing page. I'd love to do this too - maybe one day!
