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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The NYT Spelling Bee editors clearly have not heard me gab about the so-called “Cothon” at Motya 😂

NYTimes Spelling Bee du jour: Cothon is “not in word list”

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Four amazing days at a wonderful conference on trauma in the ancient world in Siracusa!

Title slide for a conference presentation: “Cyclopean wounds and the trauma of triumviral civil war”

Photo of the “Ear of Dionysius” in the quarries of Siracusa

Group photo of conference participants at the Greek theater in Siracusa

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Me this August, overwhelmed by my to-do list:

John Singer Sargent's "Orestes Pursued By The Furies" (Boston MFA)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At my first White Sox game (!) and already one person in my section has been publicly shamed for putting ketchup on a hotdog 😂 #chicago

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

First visit to the new Obama Presidential Center, just around the corner from us in Hyde Park! The Obamalisk is *slowly* growing on me, but I was really impressed by the thoughtful design of the complex as a whole.

Facade of the “Obamalisk”, the museum building of the Obama Presidential Center

Sky Room at the top of the Obama Presidential Center museum

Akunyili Crosby’s joint portrait of the Obamas

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Two pairs of gloves were definitely a necessity on this morning’s dog walk (love you, Chicago, but was not prepared for the 2°F/-17°C, feels like -13°F/-25°C, mornings)

Screenshot of Weather app forecast for Chicago

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The idea for this course has been slowly percolating for *years*, and I am so happy to finally teach it at UChicago this fall!

Poster for course HIST 21013 "Plunder, Theft, Forgery! Crime and Cultural Property in the Ancient Mediterranean and Today"; background image is a 16th c. engraving depicting part of a triumphal procession, with chariots holding war booty.

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

So incredibly happy to be back in Rome for the first time since 2020 (and what a wonderful conference this has been!)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Amusing tidbit du jour (from E.J. Kenney's 1978 review of H. Dahlmann (1975), 'Cornelius Severus')

Screenshot of a paragraph of text, reading: "Dahlmann’s comment on this, that ‘Welch andere Lösungen man auch immer ausdenken mag, es erscheint geraten, auf diese zu verzichten’, deserves to be considered for the De Quincey Prize for Fearless Understatement. (‘I do affirm, and always shall (let what will come of it), that murder is an improper line of conduct, highly improper; and I do not stick to assert, that any man who deals in murder, must have very incorrect ways of thinking, and truly inaccurate principles.’)”

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

V. glad we decided to flee DC/depressing inauguration chaos this weekend for a peaceful respite back home in NYC

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Made the mistake of agreeing to the “big” sbagliato at our favorite Italian place in the neighborhood. Happy snow day from DC!

A very large drink next to a normal sized drink at a bar.

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Am especially grateful for the AIA/SCS reunion with my two amazing friends, @asharpless.bsky.social and Mev! (h/t @caeliambulator.bsky.social for snapping this pic, since I basically forgot to take photos all weekend)

3 people seated together at dinner & smiling at the camera

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The obligatory #AIASCS book haul, feat. some oldies but goodies and a couple of newer things I’m eager to dive into! (Many more new books that I wished I could buy, but will resign myself to being the first person to check them out from the library!)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The pains and gains of paleography, per George N. Olcott, writing to his sister about his coursework during his first term as a student at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome (now the AAR), on November 20, 1896

A section of a letter: “This sounds like little, but means much, for as I said, the reading of old mss. takes up the best part of two days, at least it does at present, for the subject is quite new to me, and the handwriting of the old monks of a thousand years ago is not very legible according to our modern ideas. I can read your handwriting with the greatest ease now. Voila the benefit of classical study!”

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

What are your election night beverages of choice tonight? Was a bit too anxious to go watch out at a neighborhood bar with the inevitable crowds of staffers/lobbyists so have kicked things off here at home in DC with a martini (plus NBC’s “Kornacki cam” in the background)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I think I've figured out a bit of a work-around! It's less straightforward than Antiquity-à-la-Carte's simple search/add function, but one can apply filters using Pleiades IDs (or other datasets) to limit the view in a layer (e.g., here's the map filtered to only Forum Gallorum and Perusia)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I think my confusion is also stemming from this description (on the AWMC's "Maps" navigation page), where it does present exporting customized maps as an option!

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Starting off 2024 in a new place, learning new things (my first-ever attempt at a squeeze — need some more practice, I think!)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

It’s been three weeks already but some big life news! 🥰

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Birthdays are a time to play with one’s food, even at age 34 (in this case, a delightful pear pâté de fruit with ramp powder)

Photo of me in a polka dot dress seated at a wooden table in a restaurant poking the pâté de fruit on the “snacks” plate.

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

I’m getting married at the end of the month so inevitably everything feels very chaotic right now, but I just need the world to take a moment to appreciate that @asharpless.bsky.social made this fascinus, which may be the best/most hilarious gift I have ever received

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Crab season is the best season, and I am also now obsessed with this amazing Tsimshian crab figure in the NMAI collection 🦀🦀🦀

In a glass case, a painted/carved wood figure of a crab used in dance, Tsimshian (Ts’msyen) people, British Columbia, ca. 1880, at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC (collection no. 1/8928)

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

And finally, #s 4-5: the headstones of Thomas Webb (d. 1769) and Edward Carter (d. 1742), which are less elaborately carved but both feature a multi-line poetic epitaph (transcriptions in the alt text)

Gravestone of Thomas Webb. The epitaph concludes with a four-line poem:
“This Stone the Hand of Social friendship rears
Whose generous Griefs supply a Parents Tears
Could friendly wishes stay ye Transient Breath
A kind Companion had not tasted Death.”

Gravestone of Edward Carter. The epitaph begins with an 8-line poem:
“Farewell Vain World I have Enough of the[e]
and now I’m Careless what thou Sayst of me
What Fault thou Seest in me
Take Care to Shun
Theres worke within thy Self
That Should be Done
Thy Smiles I Court not nor thy Frowns I fear
My Cares are past my head lies quiet here”

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

#3: Ruth Carter (d. 1697/8), whose simple epitaph is framed by two rather excellent (and distinct!) skeletons on pedestals, with an urn overflowing with/surrounded by vegetation on top

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

#2: Joseph Tapping (d. 1678). So many wonderful allegorical details in this headstone, which is going whole hog with the memento mori motif (the inscriptions! the hourglass! Father Time grappling with Death who is trying to snuff out life’s candle atop a globe!), plus those scrolls!

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

It’s not spooky season yet, but here are my chosen candidates for “most extra headstone (pre-Revolutionary War ed.)” encountered on my Boston walk du jour: #1 Elizabeth Pain (d. 1704), whose life—or, more likely, grave—may have inspired Hester Prynne’s in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. That crest!

Headstone of Elizabeth Pain, with inscription, family crest, and surrounding decorative motifs.

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Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

We've completed Wk 3 of the Performance of Roman Comedy NEH Institute & start filming scenes on Monday! Can't wait to share our masked "Casina" with the group, though our backstage prep may be a bit more chaotic—inflatable props everywhere!—than that of the tragic actors/choreuts on this MFA pelike.

Red-figure jar (pelike), dated ca. 430 BCE, with two actors preparing/dressing for a performance. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession # 98.883.

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