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Anna Willi

@annabwilli.bsky.social
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Curator: Ancient Mediterranean Life at the British Museum. Opinions my own. 📜🏛️🏺

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Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg @almbawue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wer will schon draußen schwitzen 🥵? Ab ins ALM zu "ROM LEBT - ein Mitmachabenteuer". Archäologie zum Anfassen und das bei angenehmen 20 Grad - da macht sogar das Verkleiden Spaß! 🧊🌡️ 😎 👉 www.alm-konstanz.de/sonderausste...
Ein kleines Mädchen einer etwas zu großen Tunika beschäftigt sich in der Ausstellung "Rom lebt" mit der Ausrüstung eines römischen Soldaten: Ein Kettenhemd, ein Helm und ein Schwertgurt. Eine erwachsene Person unterstützt sie dabei.
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
EpiDoc Office Hour, if you'd like to know more about TEI XML encoding for inscriptions, papyri and seals, if you have concrete questions or just what to see what others are up to. All welcome. Wednesday 17th June, 17:00 BST (online). Register at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Katie A. Hemer @katieahemer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Back after tea with Holly Winch who explores children's social worlds in early Greece @sscipchildhood.bsky.social #SSCIP2026
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Here's a sneak peek at our interactive exhibition "Rome Lives! An Interactive Adventure," which starts on June 7th. 😁 My team is seriously the best!
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Glynn JC Davis @camulodunumcurator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For #FridayFinds a #Roman scalpel handle/blunt dissector with Hercules club decoration. Perhaps designed to imbue strength to the patient (or animal)? Or the surgeon? One of over 50 medical instruments from #Colchester reassessed in our new publication on Roman healthcare in the town t.ly/pg_eD
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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A Slice of Luck! Carbonised Roman Bread Found in Switzerland 🍞 🏛 Archaeologists working in Windisch, Switzerland, have uncovered the earliest phase of the Roman legionary camp at Vindonissa, finding a 2,000-year-old charred loaf of bread. 📰 Read about it in AWLOH: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
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Dept of Classics & Archaeology, Nottingham @uonclassarch.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📣 #JobAlert Research Associate/Fellow in Digital Curation and Analysis (Part-time, Fixed term) @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Join Prof Alex Mullen’s AHRC-funded project on Voices of Britain under and after Rome. 🏺#digitalhumanities 1/2 Deadline 14 April 2026 jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow in Digital Curation and Analysis (Part-time, Fixed term)
The Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham is seeking a Research Associate/Fellow in digital curation and analysis to work on the AHRC-funded project Voices of Britain Under and After Rome. This 4-year...
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370
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Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers - The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics
The Digital Classicist London seminar invites proposals for the Summer 2026 series. We are looking for papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds, including archaeology, cultural herit...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Have you ever seen a Roman plumbing device that is both genius and gorgeous? Just look at this bronze drain strainer, found in the Roman baths at Weißenburg, Germany, dating2nd/3rd century AD! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology #findsfriday
Bronze drain strainer, circular disc, displayed on a museum stand against a light beige background with subtle shadows. The strainer features intricate radial patterns of small perforations forming concentric circles and mesh-like sections around a central open hole.
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Oh I see, this is more than a millennium out of my expertise so that’s really interesting to me! I assumed the shape of the fragment might have influenced its positioning as well.
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I can also see traces of 2-3 letters above ‘my sighs’, but they don’t seem to be part of a fully inscribed line.
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The text was not important in this context of a wall, so it didn’t matter which way around?
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Is the first word 'Pitied'?
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🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Had a wonderful evening at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social yesterday for the Private View of the final leg of the touring Gladiators exhibition! Not only that, but you can enjoy two Roman exhibitions in one with the fantastic “Uncovering Roman Carlisle” alongside. Highly recommend!
A giant wall, navy blue in colour. An image of a gladiator helmet is on the right and the title “Gladiators and Roman Carlisle” is on the left in white.
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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Another entry in my occasional series ‘What does the artefact see?’ Today I’m visiting Vienna’s Natural History Museum, home of the ca. 30,000 year old Willendorf figurine. This is what the Palaeolithic Venus sees day in, day out, in her own special display room. (plus tourists like me) 🏺🧪🎨
Photo from behind the glass case of the Venus of Willendorf display at the Vienna Natural History Museum. The stone figurine sits on a thin black stand and faces a red wall with two display panels in German and English. She is, as always, implacable.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology
Two sets of dome-shaped game pieces are displayed on a gray surface, with each set containing 10 pieces. The arrangement of the pieces is loose.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2 #TilesOnTuesday 🏺
A tile with well-preserved surface impressions: three distinct outline of shoes with hobnail patterns in the center, a animal paw prints nearby, and a rectangular maker's stamp with worn lettering and an imprint of a foot. And finger lines.
The tile surface shows additional small impressions and chips.
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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is coming up soon! Free lecture and reception, on Friday 10th October. There are still places left - please come along and/or pass onto your networks
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...
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Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025
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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If you'd like to find out about the Classical Collections Network here is our website. It's free to join and open to anyone who cares for/about classical collections in UK museums classicalcollectionsnetwork.co.uk
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Classical Collections Network
A Subject Specialist Network
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683
Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.
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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Are you interested in writing and its visual appearance and/or visibility? If so, please consider sending an abstract for our conference! CFP deadline 5th September 2025, dates of conference 26th-29th March 2026. viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...
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Writing As Visual Engagement
WAVE 2 26th-29th March 2026, Cambridge Following last year’s successful first conference, Writing As Visual Experience (WAVE), we are excited to announce the Call For Papers for our second conferen…
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I‘m so pleased to hear you found the book useful, thank you for letting me know!
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Huge thanks to the Kantonsarchäologie Aargau and the Vindonissa Museum for hosting us, and to the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de for supporting my work and giving it such a great platform! 3/3
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We visited one of the most important sites for stylus tablet finds in the northwestern Roman provinces, Vindonissa, where hundreds of tablets were preserved in a rubbish dump outside the legionary fortress. 2/3
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Last year I ended my project about Roman stylus tablets, which was funded by the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de, early – for my dream job. But before I did, we filmed a series of short videos about the project, and the first episode is now live. (English Version available) ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ancientbluesky🏺 1/3
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Dorset Museum @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social is fundraising to acquire, conserve and display the Bronze Age *Crichel Hoard* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... which includes a twisted gold ribbon torc Fundraising details here: www.dorsetmuseum.org/the-crichel-...
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Crichel Hoard: Dorset Museum to acquire Bronze Age gold
Dorset Museum is raising £9,000 to acquire the 3,000-year-old Crichel Hoard of gold ornaments.
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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
CfP: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures A conference exploring the past impact and future potential of the Museum’s ancient Mediterranean collections, in-person in Senate House 25 - 27 Feb 2026. Abstracts (300 words max) due Mon 16 Jun 2025. bit.ly/4lCkltp
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures
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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Apply for our Alexander the Great AHRC PhD opportunity with The British Museum: "Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World." Application Deadline: 17:00 (UK time) 15 May 2025 phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2239...
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AHRC CDP – Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World
Project opportunity - AHRC CDP – Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World at the University of Leeds
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Delighted that the volume ‘Empire and Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960’, edited by Thomas Kiely, Lindy Crewe, and me, is now available open access. Huge thanks to all our contributors: www.sidestone.com/books/empire...
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Empire and excavation @ Sidestone Press
The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating exa...
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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · 12/03/2025
Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.
Flyer publicizing two forthcoming Handbooks on Material Text Culture from De Gruyter: Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament [ISBN 978-3-11-141107-1] and Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures (3 volumes) [ISBN 978-3-11-124094-7]
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Glynn JC Davis @camulodunumcurator.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Final hours of install before press descend on #GladiatorsOfBritain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social One of the amazing BM objects is this #Roman lamp with a personalised name written into the wet clay - Gaius Maximus. A rare instance of a named #gladiator, or perhaps a fan of this retiarius? #FindsFriday
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 AncientBluesky
The picture shows a terracotta horse with a rider on four wheels.
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The beauty of an attempt to erase stuff in clay is that it can leave behind ancient smeared and smudged fingerprints. This tablet from Uruk, dated to the 600s BCE (or later), might be a school exercise text showing some partially erased cuneiform signs collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Recor...
A rectangular cuneiform tablet. The front and back and sides are shown. On the front are some partially erased cuneiform signs. The watermark is for the Yale Babylonian Collection. Obverse of a clay tablet with some partially erased cuneiform signs, next to a measurement that shows it is about 5cm long and a watermark for the British museum Close-up of the left side of a cuneiform tablet showing smeared fingerprints and partially erased cuneiform signs
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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
rather the Venetic alphabet, borrowed from & closely related to the north Etruscan alphabet, but with punctuation and additional signs to represent sounds present in Venetic (an Indo-European language) but not in Etruscan. This is a (4th-2nd c. BCE) votive model of a school exercise tablet... (1/5)🏺
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TALANTA @talantaeditors.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
📣 Call for Articles! 📣 We invite submissions for TALATNA volume 57 (2025). Closing date is the 30th September 2024. Author guidelines and style guide can be found on our website (talanta.nl). For enquiries and submissions, please contact us via editors@talanta.nl.
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| TALANTA – Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
[Current Epigraphy] Postgraduate Course in Epigraphy, Rome, June 27th–July 6th 2024 currentepigraphy.org/2023/11/24/p...
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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
And another Cambridge Elements book, on Egyptian scribal culture: twitter.com/ManonYSchutz...
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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Also this looks fun artsandculture.google.com/story/everyd...
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Everyday Life at Wroxeter Roman City - Google Arts & Culture
Roman Britain’s fourth largest settlement
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Nora White @ndefaoite.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Delighted to have this fantastic opportunity to carry out research on early Irish epigraphy, not just ogham but also Latin insular script inscriptions @maynoothuni.bsky.social #EarlyIrish #DigitalEpigraphy #EarlyMedieval
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Dr. Virginia L. Campbell @vlcampbell.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
For my very last #ClassicsTober23 post, here are some thoughts on my month of finding myth in Pompeii. 🏛️🏺 pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/c...
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#ClassicsTober in Pompeii
For the first time in its three year history, I made a point to participate daily in #ClassicsTober. This initiative started by LE Jenks (otherwise known as Greek Myth Comix) and Cora Beth Fraser is i...
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
We still don’t know what these objects were used for in the context of everyday writing (I’ve already had a new idea since I wrote this chapter). Depictions are very rare so far, perhaps supporting the idea that this tool was ‘nice to have’ rather than essential. 3/3 🏺
Drawing of a Roman bone ‘rule’: a rectangular strip of bone, c. 14–15 cm long, with a plano-convex section and a rounded, perforated appendix on one of the shorter ends. Found at L’Escala, Ampurias, Spain. Drawing by Michel Feugère, from artefacts.mom.fr, RGL-4006.
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I argue that there are now four known depictions of this object, all on funerary monuments. They appear to add to the distinction of the deceased from his peers. 2/3
Photo showing a detail from a fresco in the tomb of C. Vestorius Priscus, Pompeii. It shows a number of objects related to writing on a bench or bed and on a round table behind it. On the bed or bench, next to a sealed codex of wax tablets, is an object that can be identified as a bone ‘spatulate’ strip or bone ‘rule’. Photo (c) Jackie and Bob Dunn, pompeiiinpictures.com.
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
📣Publication klaxon📣 This volume edited by Tibor Grüll was just published, in which I discuss depictions of Roman bone ‘spatulate’ strips, sometimes called bone ‘rules’. 1/3 #ClassicsTwitter #RomanArchaeology archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/P…
Image of an Archaeopress book cover, reading: Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments. Text, Image, Message. Edited by Tibor Grüll.
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Lexicon Leponticum @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
The Celtic personal name ⟨ateratos⟩ is inscribed on the shoulder of a so-called "spinning-top shaped" bottle (fiasca a trottola) from a late Iron-Age necropolis at Solduno in the Ticino (CH); object and inscription are dated to the late 2nd or first century BC. The name Ateratos ... 1/2
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