Hey, NAPSters, get that late antique humor ready. Jeremy Schott and I are running a thematic session on Comedy, Satire, and Humor in Late Antique Polemic.
Detail of a portrait of a woman posed in the orant (prayer) position. From the Catacomb of Vigna Massimo. (Joseph Wilpert watercolor) #catacombs#EarlyChristianity#art#Rome
Stay tuned for the CFP for our NAPS 2025 online session!
A precious Etruscan ivory stool is being restored in Bologna. Two-day construction site open to the public - www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
The Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna and the Rotary Club of Bologna Est announce the restoration of a 6th-century BC ivory stool, a rare Etruscan example. Construction site open to the public on O...
Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 2nd October. Here in the margin is depicted the blowing of the shofar: l'shanah tovah u'metukah #RoshHashana BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.251v
Brill announces it's going to start selling off publications to AI generators (while also developing its own "AI technologies" [?????]), but at least is going to offer authors an out (I am not moved by the "limits" this will place on their AI "technologies" to make my work more "available")
Fresco depicting the sacrifice or binding of Isaac from the Cubiculum of the Velatio in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Evoking a typology of Christ, the image shows Abraham directs Isaac, who is carrying the wood of the sacrifice, to a flaming altar. (Joseph Wilpert watercolor)
Fresco depicting the sacrifice or binding of Isaac from the Cubiculum of the Velatio in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Evoking a typology of Christ, the image shows Abraham directs Isaac, who is carrying the wood of the sacrifice, to a flaming altar. (Joseph Wilpert watercolor)