@unsissel.bsky.social
Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools. https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
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Five colorful fragments of glass bracelets displayed on a neutral background, each curved piece decorated with raised multicolored dots, eye-like ovals, and striped patterns in blue, white, yellow, green, orange, brown, and red tones.
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful glass bracelets found in #Egypt, #Roman period, dating 1st century BC to 1st century AD.
On display at Museum der Universität Tübingen.
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My new book is available for pre-order!
#religion #popularculture #Heathenism #NorsePaganism #Neopaganism #NRM
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Sleeping Eros about to be robbed of his quiver by Psyche. From Samandağı in Turkey from the third century AD. #MosaicMonday
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The second is earmarked for research on ancient Christian ascetic and monastic literature from its emergence to the 6th century CE.
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Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
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This mosaic comes from the Casa di Paquius Proculus in Pompeii. The mosaic depicts a black dog with a red collar chained to a pillar. Also depicted are what look like a labrys (double axe) and a shield and spear.
✨Cave Canem✨
The dogs of ancient Roman were often deployed to guard homes. Mosaics of dogs in guarding roles can be found at the entrances of homes mimicking the guarding function AND potentially offering warning of the real life guard nearby.
#MosaicMonday #AncientRome #History
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”The Assassin's Creed series will feature real-life historical figures, including "Emperor Nero and Seneca the Younger, who served as Nero's tutor.”
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The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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Det er ganske enkelt å teste dette:
Prøv å mate en KI-bot med en lengre tekst du har skrevet selv, f.eks. en OA-artikkel, og be den så om å gi deg hovedpoenget/-ne i den. Jeg har forsøkt det et par ganger og jeg synes sjelden den lykkes så godt som mennesker. Faktisk lesing kan ikke erstattes.
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What a beautiful, thought provoking and truly inspiring conversation! Thank you to @mikemotia.bsky.social and @maiakotro.bsky.social for making and sharing this on the pod.
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New pod! Mike talks to Maia Kotrosits about After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Late Antiquity
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"Mange, også i akademia, tenker at KI-sammendragene er en oppsummering av kildene den henviser til. Det er det ikke, sier Bolstad."
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Tabby cat sleeping in the middle of the Pompeii street (via Consolare, at the porta Ercolano). Photo: me, 17.11.2025
Have a happy and relaxed #Caturday!
#CatsofPompeii
Profile, 3/4 of man reading in central panel, with light background and delicate architectonical features, flanked by red and yellow mostly monochrome panels, partly framed by architectonical elements. Villa Arianna (Ariadne), Stabia
More Stabia beauty for #FrescoFriday, with this reader immersed in his scroll. From Villa Arianna.
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Part of wall fresco at Villa San Marco in Stabia. Lower part of the panel in dark red background, small female figure dressed in yellow over blue long dress standing at the bottom, holding the partly veiled Palladium (?) and a downward pointed rod. Upper panel:light background, female, semi-dressed, sitting with her back and face turned towards the viewer, holding a lyre. Panel framed by delicate gold pattern on left side and a slim solid golden column on the right.
Suffering severe #sblaar / #aarsbl fomo, but spending some days in Stabia and Pompei do help.
And it's #FrescoFriday!
#VillaSanMarco
The scene shows Hephaestus on the left, seated and holding out a large shield to an attendant. Below Hephaestus sits another blacksmith working on the final details of the helmet. The pile of armour in vivid golds sits in the lower middle of the scene. Thetis sits to the right watching on with another attendant. Image credit to Sebastià Giralt via Flickr.
✨Hephaestus and Thetis✨
This #FrescoFriday we drop in on Hephaestus who has just finishes forging the armour for Achilles. Thetis, Achilles’ mum, is right on hand for the pick up! This piece is held in the MAN Napoli.
#AncientRome
Plaster niche-relief showing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and sexuality, brushing her hair and gazing into a mirror. She sports bracelets, anklets, and breast ornaments, with surviving traces of the ancient red pigments still showing.
#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺
Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Depicted on the luminous blue walls are personifications of the seasons amid architectural motifs. Here we see a figure identified as related to Autumn.
✨The Seasons✨
This #FrescoFriday we travel to Block 10, Regio IX of Pompeii to enjoy some of the details from the blue room unveiled during archaeological work in 2024. The room is thought to have been a sacrarium — “a shrine devoted to ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects”.
"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna."
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I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
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Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
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Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
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Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses - Bell of Lost Souls
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Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
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Happy to be editing the book series Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) with Kees de Groot!
Looking forward to future book proposals!
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Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
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