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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CARC's latest publication - an Urdu translation of our short guide to Gandharan art and its Graeco-Roman links www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/publica...

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SERVICE UPDATE UPDATE We are delighted to report that a previously announced electrical outage this week has been avoided and normal service should be maintained throughout this period on all CARC's websites and databases.

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Advance notice: afternoon of Wed 23 Sept to 9 am on 28 Sept 2026 (BST), we regret all CARC webpages will be down, including #BeazleyArchive Pottery Database. This is due to major planned engineering work in our host Building, the Ioannou Centre. Photo: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today we celebrated Dr Thomas Mannack's 40th anniversary of starting work here as a researcher on our #BeazleyArchive Pottery Database – an extraordinary milestone on the Database's extraordinary journey!

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We regret that there is an IT outage in CARC’s building (morning of 7-4-2026) which affects our websites and databases. We hope to have normal service resumed soon.

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Our latest open access book is out! Classical Art and Ancient India is available in print and free online www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/publica...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

(Probably) textile-influenced early Hellenistic wall-painting in the 'Soteriades Tomb' at Dion. 📸 www.cm2project.gr/index.php/di...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Beautiful tailoring here on an Athenian red-figure cup from Nola @carcoxford.bsky.social #BeazleyArchive no. 211555.

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Wonderful to see this landmark new study of the emergence of Faliscan figure-decorated pottery by our brilliant @carcoxford.bsky.social visiting researcher Angela Pola!

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Greek mythological figures on dyed woollen textile from tomb 6 of the Seven Brothers necropolis, Taman Peninsula, ca. early 4th century BC. [Drawing from Stephani Compte-Rendu Commission Imp. 1881, via Gleba and Krupa 2012]

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ANTIQVVS Magazine @antiqvvs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

ETRUSCAN FEMALE Head-Shaped #Oinochoe Fr.the area of #Florence & #Fiesole 5BC Museo Archeologico di Fiesole #Tuscany | MCAF www.museidifiesole.it Phs MSP Antiqvvs @antiqvvs.bsky.social Ph-ed objct's cllctn itm of MCAF Sorry 4the wtrmrks #archaeology #arthistory #etruscan #etruria #vasepainting #art

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lauren Morris Zoom seminar on Begram. Posted on behalf of colleagues at AMES in Oxford.

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Now out in Chinese translation (free open access and print): Gandharan Art and the Classical World by Peter Stewart, transl. Li Yicong. 犍陀罗美术与希腊 – 罗马世界:简明导论 www.carc.ox.ac.uk/gandharaConn...

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Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Important new research suggests the Met curator’s personal collection of 20k ancient vase fragments “were deliberately dispersed among dealers and collectors to disguise the mechanism of the illicit market in antiquities and that Bothmer may have played a role in facilitating their movements.”

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Theseus striking (or rather prefiguring) the poses of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, on west and east friezes of the Hephaisteion in Athens, c. 440s-430s BC (Photos from C. Morgan, Hesperia 31 [1962]).

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

*** FINAL REMINDER *** ASPROM Symposium on Roman Mosaics Tomorrow, Saturday 7 December, 13.45 (UK time) All welcome! See second part of this post for full details and how to obtain zoom link. 1/2 📷British Museum

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Lincoln Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art has been advertized – Oxford's prestigious ancient Greek art chair, previously held by Beazley, Ashmole, Robertson, Boardman, Smith. Details here (vacancy 176331) my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Athenian red-figure bobbin with image of Hermes and Ganymede (BAPD no. 848) stolen from the Agora excavations in 1974 (📷 Journal of Field Archaeology 1984). I wonder where it is now....

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Fragment of Apulian calyx krater, c 400 BC, showing tattooed Thracian nurse. British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Boeotian Cabiric Ware 'is the only truly comic school of Classical Greek art' (RM Cook). Discuss. Skyphos from the Cabeirion at Thebes, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social www.ashmolean.org/collections-...)

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Alexander Heinemann @heinemaennchen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Great things are afoot in our cast gallery at Tübingen university. Stay tuned as we are getting ready to mount the largest statue ever to enter our collection (and I should add we already pride ourselves of having biggish casts of the Farnese Hercules and the Nike of Samothrace...).

A scaffolding of about 6m height has been put up inside the gallery in order to mount a beam just below the ceiling.

Detail of the beam overlooking plaster casts, i.a. of the three Ephesian amazons.

One of our archaeology students trained as a carpenter for years and is pictured securing the beam to transversal steel girders.

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Helen McVeigh @helenmcveigh.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hades sprinkles the earth from a cornucopia while Persephone holds a scythe and sceptre in this Attic Red Figure pelike. 🖌 The Orestes Painter 🏛 National Archaeological Museum, Athens. #Ancientbluesky 🏺

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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A tapestry with two Nereids (one of them holding a mirror), which is thought to have come from 5th- or 6th- century Egypt (per Dumbarton Oaks, where it is on display, though the findspot is unknown). It was very cool to be able to get so close to it and see all of this detail. 🏺

A close-up of one of the nereids, showing their face (very big green eyes) and long dark curly hair

A view of the second metros, who has reddish-blonde curly hair sort of piled on top of their head

A view of the second nereid with a mirror in their hand and a reflection in the mirror

A view of the whole (fragmentary) tapestry on display

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Or the Sampula tapestry, ca 1st century BC (repurposed as trousers) [Photo: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampul_...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm so pleased! In that case, how about this resist-dyed sheet with Greek mythological figures from a millennium earlier! Fragments preserved with a wooden coffin in Semibratny Necropolis, tomb 6 (early 4th century BC) [Image: Gerziger, Antike Kunst 1975]

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🤯🤯 abegg-stiftung.ch/en/collectio...

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Climbing up the face of a sea-monster. Greek cup of c. 500 BC in the Allard Pierson Museum (BAPD no. 352456 @carcoxford.bsky.social www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/80CBE...)

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Might as well post this here— I *think* it's still vald

Discount code for J. Ma, POLIS, at press.princeton.edu
30% with code P325

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sacred figures at a fountain shrine (scene of Judgement of Paris on Lucanian krater, c. 390 BC, Bibliothèque Nationale de France ) Photos: agorha.inha.fr/ark:/54721/9... and @carcoxford.bsky.social BAPD 9036830

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

CARC is now on BlueSky! At present we continue to maintain our general Twitter account and specialist account for 'Gandhara Connections', but we will duplicate original content here. [Photo from CARC's archives: the Bamiyan Valley by John Boardman, 1978.]

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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The videos of papers and discussions from our recent workshop, 'Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World' are now available online carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/resourc...

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