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Geographies of Jupiter: An Analysis of the Distribution of Jovian Epithets in Italy

The overarching aims of my broader project are to examine conceptions of the ancient Romans’ highest deity, Jupiter, in Italy during the Imperial period. This will be accomplished by tracing […]

Identity in the Ancient World

Much ado about something very important. For centuries modern Eurocentric biases have shaped the way ancient Greek and Roman art has been displayed in museums and art galleries. Ancient Greek […]

‘Indian’ Figures as Living Loot on a Sarcophagus in Baltimore

Seven Roman sarcophagi excavated from an underground tomb in Rome stand together in a small, dark room in the Walters Art Museum, with just enough light to directly illuminate each […]

The Possible Repatriation of the Flavian Monument Fragments at the Kelsey Museum

In the early 1900s, Francis Kelsey, on behalf of the University of Michigan, bought in Rome several marble fragments. Unusually for him, the purchase was not made with an established […]

Chipped Stone Tools from the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS)

The Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) project carried out a three-year systematic investigation at Porto Rafti, Greece, which confirmed prehistoric habitation in this coastal bay during the end […]

Travelers’ Graffiti and Religious Experience in Egypt’s Western Desert

Ancient travelers of the Darb Ain Amur, an evolving network of desert routes that have been connecting Kharga and Dakhla oases since the Neolithic era, spent several days in the […]

Andromeda and the Representation of Foreigners at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston holds many objects featuring representations of foreigners in Greek art. During the course of gallery renovations over the last decade, some attempts were made […]

The Dodona Tablets as Written Records

The small lead tablets found at Zeus’ oracle at Dodona record questions with which visitors to the sanctuary consulted the oracle, as well as occasionally recording answers too. Since the […]

Recontextualizing Depictions of Aithiopes on Ancient Greek Vases in Museum Collections

In composing the text of museum didactics and online object descriptions, specialists aim to offer accurate information in a clear and concise way so that it is legible for a […]

Greek Foundation Rituals and the Link Between Private and Public Religion

The consecration of sacred space was accompanied by ritual performances that often left behind material evidence identified by archaeologists as ritual foundation deposits. The foundation ritual was performed during a […]

Cuneiform Tablets as Rare Books: 21st Century Acquisitions in Library Special Collections

Since as early as the mid-nineteenth century, cuneiform objects have found their way into college and university collections via missionaries, private donors, faculty members, and direct purchases. The “Where is […]

The Racialization of Black Peoples in Ancient Mediterranean Art: Two Case Studies from London and Los Angeles

There is no consistent terminology applied to representations of black people in Greek or Roman Art and, by othering black Africans in displays, museums perpetuate the idea that black people […]

Roman Period Porto Rafti: Results of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey, 2019-2022

Traditional scholarly narratives have represented the Roman period in Attica as an era of political decadence and economic decline. New assessments of archaeological and documentary evidence, however, are demonstrating the […]

A Head of an “African” Youth in Chicago: New Approaches to Interpretation and Display

Among Roman artworks thought to depict people from Africa, life-size sculptures are relatively uncommon in the material record. One such sculpture, long identified as a head of an African male […]

Implementing Survey in a Suburban Coastal Context: Reflections from the BEARS Project

Archaeological surveys in Greece have largely been conducted in rural landscapes with sparse modern habitation. The bay of Porto Rafti in East Attica forms a striking contrast to this norm. […]

LH IIIC Pottery in the Bay of Porto Rafti: Insights into Production, Consumption, and Exchange

Pedestrian survey undertaken by the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) project around Porto Rafti bay between 2019 and 2022 generated substantial evidence that robust settlement and multiple types […]

“Monuments Man” Walter Farmer and the formation of an Antiquities Collection at Miami University

Walter Farmer (1911-1997), was an interior designer and art collector who served as a US Army Captain and a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives program during World […]

The Bonham Amphora at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX: Sketching the Biography of a Contested Object in a University Collection

This paper delineates the biography of an Attic Late Geometric neck amphora, now in the collections of the Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin. Various archival resources in Greece […]

Regional Mobilities and the Making of Community in East Lokris

To better understand the role migration and mobility played in the making of the ancient Greek world, we are to look beyond the usual suspects and combine different evidence and […]

Space, Place, and Performance: the Cultural Poetics of Italic Temple Decoration

Italic temples were constructed as spaces that were meant to be experienced through ritual and performance. They were also meaningfully decorated, and the elaborate decoration would have been a fundamental […]

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