Evan Schultheis

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I have not kept up, will have to read them.

Yeah, Pryor's work on Byzantine naval warfare kicked off a really nice new wave, combined with advances in harbor archaeology in particular. I really need to dig up the reports on the military ship that's in the Theodosius Harbor excavations. It's only ever mentioned in passing that I can find.

Forthcoming: "Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Studies from Western Europe and North Africa", eds. Éric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos, www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

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Yeah, there's still some debate over exactly when decked Liburnians finally disappear. I think the general consensus is under Constantine. Late antique ships are all skeleton-first after it and lateen sails emerge in the 200s CE.

I think that argument bears more weight in late antiquity with the death of decked warships, before their reintroduction by the Arabs with the Corvee and the Shelandi. They relied too much on commandeering mercantile vessels and crews, resulting in the disastrous Battle of the Masts.

Frankly one of the things I still need help with is working on methods and I would love to have a Ceramicist as my professor for that.

You know shockingly I don't have a physical copy of that, I really ought to get one if I get a chance to excavate the recently-unearthed 5th century city of Viminacium next year.

Have you heard the good news of our Lords and Saviours, Keay and Hayes?

Also there's something funny about watching a stern Israeli Ceramicist wipe the naive smiles off of Freshmen and Grad Students' faces alike.

I've invested probably thousands of hours working on helmets and it's third rate sub-par work at best, and it's nothing compared to ceramics. Ceramicists are gods among men, we would be nothing without them.

Fuck it maybe I should abandon everything and just get my PhD in becoming a Ceramicist. Can pretty much always find work and you get to exist at a level of autism none can comprehend.

Yeah, I think the only ones we really kept at Caesarea were some of the Coptic (in its proper sense, post-Roman Christian exports) ones in the Tsunami layers because they helped corroborate dating them.

I mean, we throw out diagnostic ceramics even. It just gets crushed up and recycled in many countries.

It's a lot. Like you cannot fathom how many, especially when you start dealing with old soviet collections. I have friends who can still go into Russia and they dig this stuff out, massive amounts of objects that would be major finds today.

Yeah there's a pair of 9th century boots in the British museum we can't find any papers on and I really just need to ask the Museum for the notes on at this point.

This reminds me I still need to head up to the Brooklyn Museum and examine the 6th-7th century helmet there.

Ok but it's also the season that gave us "Measure of a Man," "Q Who," "Samaritan Snare," and more. Honestly S2 was full of bangers, if also full of jank.

We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)

It's said that only 1/9th of known Byzantine manuscripts have ever been translated. Before even considering Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, etc. etc.

A pie-chart of federal research funding, using 2023 figures. The funding slices for the NIH (83%) and NSF (17%) are so large that the slices for the NEH and NEA round to 0%.

Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.

The Italian one?

I mean this is already the whole reason DeviantArt has become unusable as a platform so he's already missed the boat on that market...

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

The AlGoreRythm is the name of my new favorite culturally appropriated Reggae group.

I was promised comically oversized shoulder pads and I feel whelmed. @infinata.bsky.social

Trapping tonight.

Some of my Star Trek based art.

Enjoy.

#scifiart #scifi #fanart #startrek

Photo by Tom Billiter.

(You can tell I learned Marozzo lol)