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Alice Sharpless

@asharpless.bsky.social

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Classical Studies PhD. Curatorial Assistant on the Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) at the ANS | she/her

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

An orange cat and a black kitten napping on a bed, each with a paw stretched out touching the other’s paw

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Two weeks ago my sister and I found this starving kitty in desperate need of medical attention. Thanks to Familiar Hearts Animal Society she got that care and is now steadily gaining weight! Please consider donating to help cover her care and help them keep saving animals givebutter.com/FHASbespoke

Very thin tabby cat with bright green eyes and oversized ears

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Umm

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Captcha final boss. I’m sweating

Captcha asking to type animal or bird name from three listed words which are salmon, bebop, and lemur

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Publication Day! The INC Warsaw Proceedings are now available (open access), and I have a paper on Roman republican control marks and recut dies (with @profyarrow.bsky.social and Lucia Carbone). #numismatics doi.org/10.1484/M.WS...

Abstract for a paper entitled "The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP): Methods and Preliminary Findings." Abstract says the paper discuss Roman republican coin series with sequential numerical control marks and a group of recut dies.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Gif from Arrested Development with Lucille in the prison visitation room saying “They don’t allow you to have bees in here”

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

These are the specimens cited and illustrated by Abdy. I can email you a pdf if you want!

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Found today somewhat by chance an obverse die link between the sextantes of four (!) different Roman republican coin series: RRC 188 (OPEIMI), 190 (OPEI), 191 (VAL), and 194 (3rd anchor); there are two other shared dies but only this one is used for all four series #ancient #numismatics

Series of four Roman republican coins that share the same obverse die but have reverses signed by four different moneyers

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I guess I could also be more specific, basically I'm wondering if there is any chance the symbol on this coin (RRC 384, s. 155) is a bird house. It looks a lot like a modern bird house but I do not think I've ever seen a bird house in Roman art...

Control mark on a Roman denarius that is a gourd shaped object with a loop at the top and seemingly an opening in one side with a slight ledge at the bottom.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And for fun, a few choice memes from the cited Instagram account

Instagram post of Andy Warhol’s cover of The Velvet Underground and Nico’s album with the banana replaced by a real banana with duct tape across it, post credits artist @pbaracchi

Instagram post of a manuscript page or Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man but with the drawing replaced by a drawing of a banana with duct tape across it, post credits artist @sigilla

Instagram post of a meme with text reading “crush: I like boys that are artsy, me:” with a picture of a young Zac Efron holding a banana in one hand and a Rolf of duct tape in the other, post credits artist @chiaraaluigi

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In honor of Cattelan’s Comedian being (yet again) in the news, I’ll share these first pages of my dissertation on the creation of value for artworks. (FYI my dissertation is actually on the value of Roman silver tableware) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...

A page and a half of written text with footnotes discussing Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) and it’s value on the art market.

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Baby faced demon with horns and a yellow t-shirt with an apple on it (Sweetpea from Adventure time) with a large white speech bubble directed at the quoted tweet

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Apologies for this

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Admittedly it’s clearer in the BM’s own website where the job title and department are actually in a row (different job same dept)

Part of job post from the British Museum reading “Role Summary, project curator: Hawai’i Exhibition, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Full-time, 41 hours per week (including one…” the cuts off

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

My cats when someone suggests that animals aren't meant to be pets

Still of the griffon from Jim Henson's Storyteller episode 5: The Luck Child with the text "No! My like goulash and itch scritch-scratch scratch"

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