Alice Sharpless

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If you click on this link, not only can you find links to two of my co-authored articles, BUT you can also find OPEN ACCESS to 240 papers across four volumes all on NUMISMATICS. livyarrow.org/2025/09/22/i...

Thanks, Bill!

Abstract for a paper entitled "The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP): Methods and Preliminary Findings." Abstract says the paper discuss Roman republican coin series with sequential numerical control marks and a group of recut dies.

Publication Day! The INC Warsaw Proceedings are now available (open access), and I have a paper on Roman republican control marks and recut dies (with @profyarrow.bsky.social and Lucia Carbone). #numismatics doi.org/10.1484/M.WS...

Gif from Arrested Development with Lucille in the prison visitation room saying “They don’t allow you to have bees in here”

Done :)

These are the specimens cited and illustrated by Abdy. I can email you a pdf if you want!

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Coins (top to bottom): Jameson Coll. 1 (L. Hamburger 95), lot 212 [now Kestner 1352a]; NAC 78, lot 1694; NAC H, lot 1561; NAC 92.2, lot 1581

Series of four Roman republican coins that share the same obverse die but have reverses signed by four different moneyers

Found today somewhat by chance an obverse die link between the sextantes of four (!) different Roman republican coin series: RRC 188 (OPEIMI), 190 (OPEI), 191 (VAL), and 194 (3rd anchor); there are two other shared dies but only this one is used for all four series #ancient #numismatics

“We didn’t cave to fascists, we’re just fascists too 🥰”

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COLUMBIA ALUMNI PULL UP!
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Do you think snakes think legs are dumb

Coins, Counting, and Community: Exploring Deep Data from the Roman Republican Die Project

Registration is now open for the RRDP conference at the American Academy in Rome, 9-11 April 2025! Join in person OR online! aarome.org/events/coins...

Ooh yeah good call, the black stripe across the eye!

I would guess the bird is a European Robin which have that same little white line on the wing and the red goes up onto the face (common redstarts have black faces)

Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology

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The book: "Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii: Making and Faking Coins on Both Sides of the Limes" available open access via @brepols.bsky.social

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Coin of Hadrian

What is the go to visual reference guide for all the different ancient representations of Roman military standards of all sorts including vexillia and aquila? Is there one? surely there must be.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

Your regular reminder that being funny in alt-text is lovely, sure, but if it is NOT USEFUL TO PEOPLE WHO ARE USING IT FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE than it's useless and trash. If you can't be both funny AND accessible just be accessible. Just describe what's in the image.

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Really interesting, although much later than the coin I’m dealing with. But perhaps the Roman’s had something similar, we certainly know they were catching birds by other methods!

Oh, that’s interesting! I’ll have to look them up. Thanks!

Edge of Tomorrow

Thanks! What a cute little token!

It's paired with a large nail on the obverse which I would assume is for hanging it up (whatever it may be). I checked some places where I know there are bird cages, like the house of Livia frescoes, but no luck with bird houses so far even though they seem like a thing the Romans would have loved

Thanks! I guess I'm looking more for something you would hang in a tree for small birds, but this is a helpful comparandum anyway. I'll check some of the references from the article though!

Control mark on a Roman denarius that is a gourd shaped object with a loop at the top and seemingly an opening in one side with a slight ledge at the bottom.

I guess I could also be more specific, basically I'm wondering if there is any chance the symbol on this coin (RRC 384, s. 155) is a bird house. It looks a lot like a modern bird house but I do not think I've ever seen a bird house in Roman art...

Random 🏺Ancient Bluesky question: is anyone aware of depictions of bird houses in Roman art? Not bird cages, but houses where wild birds could live? A few internet searches didn't turn up anything helpful but if anyone has leads they would be greatly appreciated!