@samueloer.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Father of 2. Doctoral student researching cities of Roman Asia Minor @unituebingen.bsky.social. Culture | History | Architecture | Urbanism | Numismatics | Epigraphy.
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Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
❗️Petition to protest the planned closures of the Wincklemann-Institut (!) and archaeology programs at Humboldt University in Berlin ⬇️
20.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
New job:
Assistant Professorship in Archaeology
Aarhus University
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69819
#MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #MosaicMonday
Detail of athletes from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, c 216 AD
Animals as Literary Topoi in Fable and Ancient Literature
Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social
He escrito un libro. ¿Os cuento qué hay en él?
- 25 años de lecturas
- 9 meses de escritura
- muchas ganas
- bibliografía consultada en 6 idiomas (italiano, francés, inglés, español, alemán, latín) de bibliotecas nacionales e internacionales.
Resultado: 384 páginas de historias alucinantes.
MOSAIC WITH THE FACE OF PHOBOS, C4 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM In 1856 the English archæologist Sir Charles Thomas Newton decided to go digging at Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum in Turkey, in search of one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum. He found a late-antique "domos" built by a man called Charidemos, who helpfully left a verse in mosaic naming himself. He published copious excavation notes, a remarkably responsible thing to do at the dawn of modern archæology, and then carted off the mosaic floors he found to the BM, perhaps less responsibly. Here we see the screaming face, tongue out, of Phobos, Fear, at the centre of a floral design contained within round concentric frames including a beaded motif. Stylised vine leaves appear in black triangles to fill the corners of this square panel. Phobos has wild blond-orange hair. Walking over his face was a symbolic conquest of fear.
#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum speaks for all of us with this C4 floor #mosaic from #Halicarnassus with the face of #Phobos, Fear, blossoming like an evil flower within a series of classical #frames. Fear radiates outward. The symbolism is clear: step on your fear and go on. #AncientBluesky 🏺
26.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 64 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
The next lecture in our colloquium at the #HSI of the #UniRostock will take place on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. The topic: Monika Trümper (FU Berlin): New research at the Gymnasium of Agrigent. It's going to be exciting! 😁
www.altertum.uni-rostock.de/institut/akt...
Are you considering achieving a PhD in #AncientHistory? And are you interested in #RomanReligion? This job advertisement @unimainz.bsky.social might be for you:
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/52699
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This banger again 👀🤩 because why not.
#MosaicMonday
Detail of floor mosaic - 1 century AD.
National Archaeological Museum Aquileia. The bow motif connects
ivy and vine branches, referring to the cult of Dionysus. #art #Archaeology #Italy #History
📷: Ottone Porfirogenito.
🚨 #Roman villa alert! 🚨
📰 Ground Penetrating Radar has revealed a >500 sq m, well-preserved villa in South Wales, with potential to teach us a huge amount about life from the 1st all the way to the 5th century AD
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...
#books #literature #language
An inscribed floor tile from Roman London, with a sketch depicting a Roman lighthouse. Part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain
06.01.2026 07:19 — 👍 57 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26.
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Wishing you Health, Life, Joy, Peace, Good Cheer, Hope.
This lovely ancient message was inscribed in Greek on a mosaic in Halicarnassus 1600 years ago.
#2026NewYear
My photo shows a blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball displayed on a grey background. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog’s face, ears, feet and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are represented by black dots painted over the surface of the bead. A hole for threading runs through the sphere - it can just be seen on the right hand side of the bead. The hedgehog’s long ears suggest this is a desert hedgehog. Desert hedgehogs may have symbolized rebirth because they reappear after hibernating underground in winter. Dated c.1985 - 1650 BC. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
From c. 3,600 years ago, an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a hedgehog curled-up in a ball! 🦔❤️
Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC.
National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...
📷 by me
Gilded glass fragment with the image of the goddess Roma, personification of the city of Rome. Discovered during construction of the Porta Metronia station, in ancient barracks destroyed during construction of the Aurelian Walls. She’s based on a depiction of an Amazon, with her bared breast, triple-plumed helmet, baltea (studded quiver belt across her chest), and pilus (javelin). The iconographic theme is already well-known, but it is the first and only representation found so far on gold glass. “Golden glass is already a very rare finding, but this has no comparison” according to preliminary findings, Simona Morretta, archaeologist of the special superintendency of Rome, explained to ANSA. “No golden glass with the personification of the city of Rome had ever been found before”. Gold glass was a glass-making technique in which a thin layer of decorated gold leaf, often a portrait, was sandwiched between two layers of transparent glass. The leaf was glued to one glass discs first, then the design created by scratching away tiny areas of gold like an etching. A second glass disc was then superimposed on top of the etched gold surface and fused to create the roundel of a vessel or a medallion.
The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/
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Desentierran unos impresionantes mosaicos del siglo IV d.C. en la antigua ciudad de Adrianópolis historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/desentierr...
13.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Illustration showing the EU flag and the United Kingdom flag painted side by side. Text reads: “The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+.” An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.
The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+ 🇪🇺🇬🇧
We have concluded negotiations for the United Kingdom’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027, making further steps in our renewed EU-UK Strategic Partnership.
More ↓
link.europa.eu/vf3vJk
BCDSS Professors Julia Hillner and Pia Wiegmink, together with former BCDSS Guest Researcher Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), have been granted funding by the VolkswagenStiftung for their collaborative project "The Nameless in History".
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @volkswagenstiftung.de
Die spektakuläre Entdeckung der Kore Vulci: Im Blog des Forschugsprojekts #VulciCityScape berichtet das Ausgrabungsteam vom Fund einer außergewöhnlich gut erhaltenen griechischen Skulptur in der etruskischen Stadt Vulci in Italien. 👇
vulcityscape.hypothe...
#Archäologie #Vulci
An ancient mosaic of astonishing complexity and beauty. The design is 10 rows of 5 squares in a grid formation. Each is separated by a coloured twisted rope border. Each square shows a different design - either animals, plants, buildings or people. Wowser.
Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯
#MosaicMonday
Very glad to do another round today of making Opus Signinum as part of our experimental archaeology class with students on my Material Culture: Methods course on our two-year MA programme @dependencybonn.de
28.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
The lion & bull are in a half oval lunette, surrounded by a swirling border pattern that also contains two shell designs.
Part of #Roman floor mosaic
3rd Century CE
Found 1899 - Karl-Marx-Straße/Jüdemerstraße #Trier
A lion striking a bull as its prey.
Originally 6.5 square metres in size, the surrounding pattern indicates it once would have had nine panels.
Now Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier
#MosaicMonday
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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!
fordhampress.com/theoria
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
Letter of Roman Emperor Caracalla Discovered in the Walls of a 1950s House in Türkiye
www.anatolianarchaeology.net/letter-of-ro...
A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027 -The deadline is on January 10, 2026
📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.
📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0
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