Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Biondi ~ Saturnalia

    T’other day, Steven Saylor drew our attention to a very interesting sculpture: It’s entitled ‘Saturnalia’ and is by Ernesto Biondi … I suspect you may have seen it at some point in your life in a textbook or internet site explaining what the Roman festival was all about (more photos here).  If you look at…

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  • The Looting of Sardis

    The previously-mentioned video from the ASCSA begins with some upcoming events, among which is mention of a lecture by Fikret Yegül on the looting of Sardis … while we look forward to that being put online, for now we can read a coincidentally-written piece in Athens News on the same subject (advertising the talk, of course):…

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