Dorothy King

The New York is back in Poland 🇵🇱

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And I’m grateful to @flissina.bsky.social for listening to my concerns about one piece, and pointing me to the Howells book where a mention in a footnote led me to finding a second looted piece. And locating both!

I’ve found two more Late Antique gold glass bases stolen by the Nazis from Poland, so I reported them to @kultura_gov_pl (& the one in the US to @DHSgov).
We’d assumed the Czartoryski collection glass was destroyed in 1944, but it’s slowly surfacing … and hopefully they’ll return to Poland! 🇵🇱

Well, enjoy Pisa.

If you need a basic pensione, the Gialel has this amazing capital built into the facade.

Trattoria da Stelio is good and good priced.

I stayed in a pensione for a conference with a similar view. Beware the mosquitoes 🦟 in summer, it’s too close to the Arno.

It looks like Arsinoe II

Motion for the accepted plural of Carloman to be Carlomen

Oh, I have seen it.

No I didn’t

Saison après saison, les découvertes se succèdent à San Casciano dei Bagni, en Italie www.ansa.it/english/news...

Bronze statues, coins and ancient eggs found in Tuscan thermal baths Ancient statues, coins, jewels and still-intact eggs from Roman and Etruscan times have been recovered from thermal baths in southern Tuscany, Italy's culture ministry said on Tuesday, presenting the latest discoveries at the site.

Bronze statues, coins and ancient eggs found in Tuscan thermal baths | Reuters
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working on Sardis acropolis stuff today -- building a list and commentary on "missing buildings" known only from inscriptions.. have about 60 so far (!).

there's a famous list of fountains, itself lost, taken to Smyrna 1874-8 by King of Brazil. anyone know Brazil's collections? a curious history..

The irony is that although I had to change my first topic - on Hecamonmid and Macedonian 4th c BC royal patronage … between the Hecatomnus Tomb and Amphipolis, I probably contributed more to that field 🤷‍♀️.

And we’d get paid to write articles and reviews for popular archeological magazines, to teach a postgrad class, lots of little things to add income - now most of those are not around any more. Hence the appeal of funded (no choice) PhDs, that suit museums or established research projects.

Also, funding has changed in UK, now universities charge. I had my fees paid and a stipend for living on, won a scholarship. Because of the expansion of university education, that doesn’t happen anymore - a First led to automatic funding of postgrad in those days. Not any more. Now it’s loans! 🤷‍♀️

I think funding has changed things. In UK 1994 I chose my topic, my professor changed it a bit to suit his needs. Now people apply for funded PhD on topics that are part of funded research projects a lot more - so obviously there’s less choice with those. It’s economically sensible for them to.

Eau d’excavation is the scent of the season

A very good curry place?

Michel Félibien 1706 engraving of the Cup of the Ptolemies mounted as a chalice at St Denis, Paris.

Have fun!

Slip a little note into the next ones that are recalled … think of it as a sort of letter in a bottle. Might be the start of a beautiful friendship.

AND it doubles as a chalice at St Denis in the Middle Ages …

Ptolemy:
That’s why I only drink from the finest carved agate

Is it sturdy enough to use as a salad bowl? I’m slightly envious

I did quite a lot of research on that collection, partly because some come from an older one that dealer acquired! Most of the Getty corrections come from me - like the bearded Octavian not being ex Piombino. It was a lot of dodgy marketing by sellers 🤷‍♀️

I’d be taking the empty container home and re-using it

I thought there was no pre 1960 provenance when it was in Rome.

I think there needs to be a privacy option on here. And a way to remove spam followers rather than just block them.

I’m sorry. I guess my local pharmacy just accepted my word for qualifying under one condition (and assume other thing that qualifies me is on my medical records). Will DM you on other site.

Jane, I was eligible for the booster and got it last week - I entered my info on NHS website, it said I was eligible because of x and let me book a slot. It’s worry double-checking.