Sebastian Heath

Great read. Thanks for posting the full text.

(PDF) Venues for Spectacle in the Greek East: Architectural Adaptation and Cultural Adoption PDF | The scarcity of canonical amphitheatres in the culturally Greek eastern parts of the Roman empire has been used as evidence to suggest a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

Publication day! I spent so long building a mahoosive dataset and GIS that it would be a waste not to share the results. The Greeks didn't build many amphitheatres, but gladiatorial epigraphy has been found on huge numbers. Where did eastern gladiators fight?

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Bit of info. Most rooms have no labels as prohibited by deed. Still… A great museum.

Illustration of Egyptian and Ionic capitol to show relationship as conceived by Sloan.

Text intro’ing discussion of relationship between Egyptian and Greek capital forms.

More Soane. Read the label. Both can be right.

1 more. Pics tough. Deceased at base of Egyptian sarco.

Shelves at the museum.

Egyptian head

Amphora

In London. BM closed due to power outage. So at Sir John Soane’s Museum. A bricolage of casts and originals. And that’s just the antiquity. Fun museum.

The project I'll be talking about , gaerhf.org , is in its earliest stages. The talk is my first substantial public presentation on it. I'll welcome all feedback I get and you can expect that it will lead to improvements at all scales. I'm grateful to whomever can join in any mode. #GlobalAntiquity

Join us online or in person for a talk from MAHSA’s Vaneshree Vidyarthi: ‘Mapping the Indian Palaeolithic’, part of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East’s Autumn seminar series.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

As I always say, If you can make it in Iowa City, you can make it anywhere. Including in New York: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Accessible color palette coming online at GAERHF. Reactions from all welcome.

“Agreed, approved, signed, and attached.” The more of that I can do today, the better. #AcademicChatter

That Summers dude ain’t so looking so smarty, smarty now.

Unpopular as they are, Republicans control everything. They had a chance to fix Obamacare/ACA premiums. They didn't. They're still stuck with the problem. It's still exposing them as cold-hearted and out-of-touch. #FixHealthCare

It's maybe a bit repetitive of me to repost this but I am making progress on the interface for "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure" (GAERHF). Feedback welcome. Overall goal is exploration of user-defined spatial and chronological context for any figure. #GlobalAntiquity

Added "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" to "Very Clean URIs": wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Very_clean_U... #DigiClass #DigitalClassicist. #LAWDI

“The Madness of King Trump.” I await the movie.

Onion headline reads: “Archaeologists: DC Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating”

@bencollins.bsky.social . This was just pointed out to me by @sarahburnes.bsky.social . Hilarious! Thank you for the laugh. And yup, That’s my professional opinion! #archaeology

Trump wants to send health insurance money directly to the people. Great idea! You could even implement that by proactively giving tax credits that were immediately applied to the premiums. Oh wait… #GOPShutDown #ShutDown

Cracks are growing.

Air Traffic Control seems to be one of few government functions that has broad support. I would have thought the same for, say, cancer research, vaccines, consumer protection, etc. But I also get it. We recognize the immediate risk of dangerous air travel. It needs govt. So Thank you ATCs! #ShutDown

I thank the jurors. Sandwich guy did it. He threw the sandwich. But those are our courts. It’s our criminal justice system. And we, the people, didn’t want him prosecuted. So yeah, I thank the jurors for standing in for us all. #WeThePeople 🙏

I am so glad we have off cycle elections! Keeps us in the habit of voting. In the democratic habit. And allows the people's voice to break through. I hope we keep them. #Vote2025 #Election2025 #WeThePeople

Screen shot of registration page for the ISAW Open House for Prospective Students. More info at https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-house-2025

Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!

Try the new "gallery" UI element in "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure"... #GlobalAntiquity

That @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social is trying to defeat Mamdani right now? I don't care. It won't work. When the election is over and Mamdani has won, how about getting on board with helping him succeed? This election cycle is about looking ahead. We're all going to try something new. #NYC #NYCVotes

Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure

My pleasure to be speaking to the U. of London's DH Research Hub on November 25th on 5:00PM. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma... . Hybrid so all very, very welcome.

Program poster.

Here's the poster for @isawnyu.bsky.social PhD program. We're eager to support students working across multiple scales of inquiry in the ancient Afroeurasia. I can send a PDF if you DM. See here for our open house: isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please forward as you think useful. #GlobalAntiquity

He’s the Silent Speaker. The Speaker With No Voice. The Speaker Who Doesn’t.

GAERHF screenshot showing highlighted figure as focus as well as a popup over location of another figure.

I'm working on an improvement to the GAERHF user experience. Links such as gaerhf.org#standing-fem... will highlight the location in red and maintain that highlight as you hover over other figures. Big picture: The spatial and temporal context of any one figure can be explored in relation to others.

Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.