Hodie est Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 23 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Fresh Podcasts
Fingerprints on ancient pottery? Like from the potters? Ok, we’re not cops but we are a little curious. Who are these potters at Byzantine Moza, Tell Leilan, Tell en Nasbeh, Tell es Safi, and other Bronze and Iron Age sites around the Near East? Who’s producing what and why are they using child labor to decorate pottery? Maybe we really should call the cops.
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Book Reviews
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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
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Research Papers of Possible Interest
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Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends hot weather and drought, and a great abundance of mice and fish
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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