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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I doubt it was all bags, but certainly my explaining that I had low blood pressure and might faint was taken badly and held things up

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They put me in the priority queue and there was a bit of a wait. Mostly my problem was there was some sort of misunderstanding when they had my bag and it took a long time to clear up. Not sure why but a manager rescued me and apologised.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was there for other reasons recently and there’s definitely a knock on effect to accessibility in the rest of the museum. There was no seating available, the lifts were out and I had to stand around a longer than usual time at security even though they fast tracked me for health reasons.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you lived in a time before train timetables but had train timetable brain, the catalogue of ships must have ruled

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It’s also cool not to go if it’s going to be stressful. If you don’t go, there’s always maps and books for getting a feel for the landscape.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I’ve not been there in a while so I wouldn’t be able to guarantee it. When I was there the bus service that goes from the road outside the site to the centre of town near the museum was often just as fast

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Used to work there. You can get the site done quickly and pleasantly by going immediately after it opens. I do think it is worth it for context on the museum and sense of place.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Got to meet a few people who did this when I was working as a FLO and they seemed to have a really positive experience. They skipped a lot of the things about the treasure process that frustrate people and were really proud to show off their finds.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have good availability for the next few months if anyone's looking for professional editing do get in touch: abigailbaker.co.uk/editing

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New Website! abigailbaker.co.uk. Now the academic websites are failing it seems like time to make my own.

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Abigail Baker: Home

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Source is virgil.org/appendix/moretum.htm

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Recommend looking into Moretum. It’s more of a pesto but very Sword and the Sandwich because the best literary source on it is a high epic spoof about making lunch and the earliest attestation of e pluribus unum

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Writing about your excellent editing skills is a bit like walking onto the Greek tragic stage and doing a speech about how you don’t like or need that one deity.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

No worries! I only mention so people can find out more. The project record for the original is here: latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/xml/AN_2005_... the sound is pretty much identical to the recording of the surviving parts of the pipe

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think the first one was for us at the Ashmolean Latin inscriptions project first, tho possibly for Latin Now too

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Unfortunately three girls with same name cause confusion and finally team up to make it worse is too good a romance concept

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It’s pretty funny. I only have mildly amusing namesakes. There’s someone who publishes on fecal transplants as well. I don’t think any of us uses the diaeresis

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

No shade to fans of hyper specific romance genres but this is not my bag

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Have set up a goodreads account to try and disambiguate myself from the person who publishes Amish romance books under my name. Anyone know how to do this without claiming books I didn’t write?

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is also the article in which I gently suggest that Pater scholarship needs to treat Schliemann as the massive weirdo that he was.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I've free access links for people who want them. Let me know in the replies or message me.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Plus Pater never saw it, so there's an intriguing mystery here. Plus I'd really like to get more historians of archaeology into Pater, who sees Bronze Age material as art in its own right very early while everyone else was mocking it

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The object itself is not making anyone's top 10 list of exciting finds from Mycenae (image from Karo Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai)

A black and white photo of a little metal flower. There is a short stalk of corroded black metal with a small ring of petals around the top. It has seen better days.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My new article is up. It identifies an object that was important in the early reception of Mycenae and explores why Walter Pater picked such an obscure object as a key example. academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...

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Searching for Pater’s Gold Flower on a Silver Stalk in Schliemann’s Mycenae

Abstract. The archaeological discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann were highly controversial, with implications for the discipline of archaeology and wid

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A couple of places for our event on Friday have become available. Join us to talk about sensory experiences of the ancient world!

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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Still a few places left for the Classical Collections Network's event on Friday 19th September, at the Great North Museum in Newcastle. A great programme of speakers! Grateful for funding from Hellenic Society. Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World share.google/gP5MtTh7N7LJ...

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Upcoming Events

Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock, is delighted to announce t…

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If we want museum workers, precarious academics and others to be able to make knowledge, we need at least an understanding that academic publishing is designed to exclude them. Meanwhile the government wants to give my book to AI companies that will use it to make money.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Disaster averted on current article. I’m so careful to design my research around materials that are in the public domain and things I can guarantee access to. But still a reviewer can demand I use an edition of a 19th century source that costs more money than is in my bank account.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

So great that we have a machine for killing the planet that also steals and is rude

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS On 19 Sep 2025 the Classical Collections Network in collaboration with Newcastle University and the Great North Museum: Hancock, will be hosting a conference on Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World. Supported by the @hellenicsociety.bsky.social.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Looking forward to reading this. Congratulations

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

They should sell t shirts of this

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi new followers! My book is 30% off right now. If you’re interested in weirdly heated debates about the past or what it was really like to visit a museum in the 19th century, now might be the time to treat yourself. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-d...

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Troy on Display

This book explores what visitors saw at the Trojan exhibition and why its contents, including treasure, plain pottery and human remains captured imaginations an…

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Could you add me? I’ve not been posting much lately but want to get back into it.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Could you add me. Not in a big posting mood right now but I’ll find my way there eventually.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I’m making my “I’m not sure about that, Thomas” face and I’m not the only one

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

I hope it’s a Ratatouille situation

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Got the deluxe fashion weeb book package for my birthday.

It’s all four volumes of Pattern Magic and both volumes of Thus Spake Rohan Kishibe, fanned out.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Once again, my carefully laid sewing plans are disrupted by the need to turn a cute fabric into a little top.

The frame is completely filled with black silk crepe de chine fabric, spread flat on a table top. The fabric is printed with a pattern of tumbling Greek vases, depicted in a blobby painted style. The figures on the vases race, fight lions and engage in more intimate activities

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Can recommend “they don’t make plus sized spacesuits” by Ali Thompson as a set of short stories on this

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Definitely. I thought it was Cupid when I first saw it.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

I wonder if it’s also a nod to all those stories of children befriending dolphins in Pliny? www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Unfortunately I was made aware of magical girl Schliemann last night and now I have to share her with you.

It’s an anime style drawing of a pretty girl with short red hair, a Tyrolean hat, a safari shirt, short shorts and thigh highs. She has a notebook and a rope and it looks like there might be a fluffy tail poking out of her shorts. Of course there are pink sparkles and a Trojan horse background.

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Every curator has a small weird object they want to make people love and I’m proud this baby figurine made the big leagues

A screenshot from the Guardian article in the linked post. It shows a bronze figurine of a baby on all fours with head raised and crawling forward

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Islanders making this top ten exhibitions of the year list is a nice early Christmas present. t.co/2xhmAKK0m6

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Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Today I bought a felt dachshund in a Christmas hat for my friend who wants a real one, joked with the salesperson that it is probably more ethical to get her one that is just for Christmas. Then I turned around and saw the irl version walking towards us. #TinyJoys

A beautiful brown long haired dachshund, wearing a Christmas hat and a red knitted jumper with bands of reindeer and stars on it.

The same dog sitting up for a treat. The dog is wearing a red Christmas jumper and a harness with a pattern of Christmas puddings.

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