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Andrew Meadows

@menetys.bsky.social

Director of Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents; Professor of Ancient History; Fellow in Ancient History, New College; Honorary Curator, Ashmolean Museum. Oxford.

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Exquisite work in this thread

08.02.2026 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Call for Papers – 13th Annual Meeting of the European Coin Find Network & Nomisma.org

The Call for Papers for the 13th annual Nomisma/ECFN meeting in Bari is now open. 15-18 Sept 2026. Come and join us! www.13ecfn-nomisma.org/call-for-pap...

21.01.2026 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The amphitheater at Cyzicus

04.01.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tenedos, from Alexandria Troas

03.01.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
2025: Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org & 2nd BulgNR TOGETHER International Conference Sofia, 19–23 June 2023, BulgNJ Suppl. vol.1 (ISBN 978-619-92562-8-2) | Bul...

Proceedings of the joint ECFN-Nomisma in Sofia now published: bulgnj.com/index.php/e-...

03.01.2026 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Samothrace, seen from Aenus

02.01.2026 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Selymbria for New Year’s Eve.

31.12.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Monetary CHANGE in Ancient Anatolia (630-30 BC) CHANGE is an interdisciplinary project to research the monetary history of ancient Anatolia from the beginning of coinage in the 7th century to the absorption of the region by RomeΒ circaΒ 30 BC

The CHANGE project is in Istanbul next month, courtesy of the wonderful Pera Museum. Do join us: www.peramuseum.org/event/moneta...

18.12.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More Egyptian goodness in the OSAD series. Just in time for Christmas….

11.12.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The search results for the keyword 'architecture' in Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (http://numismatics.org/crro). The page depicts numerous example types that depict architecture, including temples, columns, towns, etc.

The search results for the keyword 'architecture' in Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (http://numismatics.org/crro). The page depicts numerous example types that depict architecture, including temples, columns, towns, etc.

Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.

09.12.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m old enough to remember when radio dials looked like this in the UK…

08.12.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hot off the press: CPI volume2

12.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Updates to RRDP specimens At long last, we have migrated the objects accessible in the SITNAM public database into a CollectiveAccess back-end. SITNAM was initially...

Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...

06.11.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Stipendiary Lecturer of Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) (12 Hours, fixed-term) - Oriel College Oriel College is looking to recruit a Stipendiary Lecturer of Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) (12 Hours) for a 14 month (4 Terms) fixed term position to provide cover for leave

Ancient history job in Oxford: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/st...

04.11.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

29.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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I have a very bad feeling about this...

27.10.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 54412    πŸ” 10217    πŸ’¬ 1855    πŸ“Œ 643

Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.

16.10.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum πŸ“· by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

10.10.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 355    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on β€˜The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!

09.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11–16.09.2022, Warsaw, Vol.Β i: Greek Numismatics | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology

Thanks to the fantastic work of the Warsaw team, Proceedings of Int Numismatic Congress are free to download here: Vol. I www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

22.09.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Demetrias (small promontory in the centre) at sunset

14.09.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Evening in the Agora at Thasos

13.09.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thasos

12.09.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kavalla

11.09.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pangaion from Philippi

11.09.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ennea Hodoi

11.09.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tomb of Brasidas

11.09.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eion and the Strymon

11.09.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ouranoupoli

10.09.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0