Three heads jugate on this lead piece in The British Museum (with Egyptian headdresses?) Not sure what's on the other side, but happy to take suggestions or parallels here! Something Egyptian? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Clare Rowan
When you work in an Arts building.
Well, this Odyssey popcorn bucket will make a fun die roller to match w/my Colosseum bucket, if remarkably ill-suited for its intended function. Are the Greeks stacked on top of each other like a cheerleading pyramid? Who Gets To Be The Head? (Obvs Agamemnon wants it, but..) Is Philoctetes the arse?
Anise K. Strong
Clare Rowan
@ancient-tokens.bsky.social #numismatics
#tokens
A whole website dedicated to the tokens (anc. gr. symbola) of Classical Athens and anything related to it ....
tokensofathens.com
Happy to hear your comments!
the next online Money and Medals Network Talk will be on the Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill, given by Chris Gallacher of the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social on 27 May at 2pm GMT. Find out more and sign up here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...
Nice to see an ex student quoted in this article!
This was a great conference! We hosted a Watch Party with @lulgalleries.bsky.social volunteer token cataloguers!
@britnumsoc.bsky.social
Mairi Gkikaki
Unbelievable job title alert
Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.
