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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 20m

Delighted by the new guy in town, thanks to the SBMA

Black and white image of a monumental Roman statue of Hermes in a gallery

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Charmingly inaccurate! A surreal time had by all.

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At this point, the quiz had the sensation of being trapped in the Museum of Jurassic Technology

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

sunshower

the wolf is giving birth

the devil is beating his wife

monkey's wedding

fox's wedding

pineapple rain

liquid sun

I have no term or expression for this

other

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

baseball teams only do this when they are very stressed 😞

A 12-12 ball game in the middle of the 8th

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A fossil dig. Walk like a dinosaur. Pet a dinosaur. The beautiful living animals space upstairs. The urban species wall. The incredible dioramas. Everyone deserves access to natural history collections.

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Literally just fulfilled a bucket list item by getting to see THE Jefferson’s Ground Sloth claws a couple of weeks ago at the Academy. Devastating and horrific news for Philly.

Ground sloth claws in a case published by Thomas Jefferson, a real provenance and provenience story

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Surreal to hold this after so many years. Out in print and as an open access publication from @gettymuseum.bsky.social in September 2026. www.getty.edu/publications...

Provenance research for Mediterranean antiquities cover in front of a volume

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Me, constantly www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a28954

A catcher to a pitcher on a mound cartoon signed Steinberg: remember it’s just a game. It doesn’t matter. In fact nothing matters. We have to create our own meaning I. Life. For example it would mean a lot to me if pitching started to matter to you.

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

100% funnier to see it in the print edition

The best emoji : rating ancient emoji in the print edition

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

this hat is due to true love, ok

Me in a blue Phillies hat in front of the Phillies (I still love u minor league/the nats 😭)

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gosh darn it but I love baseball

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

not sure why everyone talks up the big heart and not the possessed 18th century poem-writing automaton child

Possessed looking automaton that can write poems from the 18th century

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sometimes, nice things happen

Lazy afternoon light on the splash pad near city hall in philly

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think the kerameikos would have loved glittery watercolors, to be honest

Watercolor card of ballet slippers and a woven pink background

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The question of the faithfulness of the Odyssey as a movie to the original is kind of subsumed by my joy that one single movie has caused wall to wall Ancient Greek posts and dialogues everywhere; a modern symposium prompt with a film as an absent centerpiece, an empty dinos we all circle around

Nonstop suggested Odyssey posts on Instagram

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Pour one out for Google's previous contender, an emoji on the precipice of a bilious explosion and a true joy to rate

a bilious green monstrosity that promises horrors and yet brings joy: the android 8.0 classical building emoji ca 2017

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As for the tiny kylix, let’s just say it’s been claimed for Cheeriomeikos testing by the smallest member of the household. A million thanks to Marc for helping my kylix dreams come true!

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Coincidentally, I’ve been collecting some data on the actual weights of sympotic pottery: what is it like to actually use these as objects? What’s the capacity like? Attic pottery is shockingly light in the hand, and I think this little kylix and I have a lot of experimentation ahead!

Humans for scale - holding the kylix in a dress

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dear reader. Marc made THREE perfect kylices and let me tell you: BYOKylix is absolutely the way to go at a movie theater.

A modern coffee cup for scale with an Antimenes P inspired boat on the little kylix

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As it turns out, the youth are not using kylices at their symposia any longer. Not a single food safe kylix to be found. That’s when a miracle popped up: a friend of a friend, Marc Zorn, happened to have one spool of terracotta-colored filament.

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🏺🧵: I’m just a girl with a simple dream: to drink from a novelty kylix while watching the Odyssey for work. How hard could it be to track down one (1) usable kylix?

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Little kylix’s big day out

Peet’s cup vs mini kylix with Antimenes style ship

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Emma von Name sighting in the inn in Widow’s Bay 👀?

A painting of a child eating a metric ton of berries, universal constant

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When Anthropeum includes a sneaky labels and stickers shot 😍

Reverse of an ivory with assortment of labels and numbers

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

by far the best use of open content collections pages, bar none

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Kylix full of Nobody buttons 💯

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Physical libraries remain undefeated

The gentle art of faking by R Nobili, on a shelf of forgery texts

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Does anyone know anyone familiar with turtles in LA or southern California? Or anyone who might be familiar with more exotic species in parks?

Big turtle with flat shell and narrow snout- kind of like a Chinese soft shell?

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Unthinkable a year and change ago.

Hillside of native flowers including rampant poppies

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Dante, if he could hate post:

Meme update of the ol’ I…worked on this INFERNO for a year…and…he just…he tweeted it out

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Sorry but I only read about political popes in terza rima

Many popes have been entangled In politics. Here are 5 of them.

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is the twentieth anniversary of the first time I lived in LA, and it’s times like this that I remember why we came back and stayed.

A vernal pool and the battered, beautiful, wildflower mountains of Malibu

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

texts and office chat filled with opening day updates, what a day to be alive

captain sisko repping the Niners and a disparaging vulcan

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

When your dad sends you a SPACE OPERA about an ANTIQUITIES DEALER and PROVENANCE in SPACE

Book on a pillow- jack mcdevitt’s SEEKER with a classic space opera cover

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

perfect V-day cards from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social‘s shop 🦑

V day card of an anglerfish with heart shaped light: you’re my light in the darkness

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I am very sorry about all of you who do not live in southern California

Fresh punnets of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, etc with a price sign and the heat of 75 degree sun making everything glow

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

me, every time someone in DC tells me how great Lapis is

Edited meme borrowed from tumblr that says I am really glad something good happened to you. It will happen to me eventually too I hope

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Annoyingly, sometimes L.A. is perfect

View of verdant mountains, clouds, glistening water in the ocean off in the distance, clumps of downtown buildings dotting the landscape

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Throwback to 2016 exclusively because I personally would like more excuses to hang out at parties as Medusa and talking up Smilodon, 2026, let’s bring this back

Me looking jaded at the camera while wearing a beauteous Medusa hat and holding a Smilodon fatalis cast

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I mean just look at this. Gorgeous stuff. Tempted to buy another one to frame as prints. #aiascs

Open book pages over a graphic of a wave and a man frozen in stone: nor at monsters! But you can stare all you want…

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Additional stars of the book fair: these absolute stunners from Melissa Books, some of the most beautiful kid books I’ve seen

Pile of beautiful book covers featuring the Minotaur and gorgon in stunning blues and reds and yellows

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I am sure many of you have written brilliant books and I am sure I will buy them at #aiascs but this is by far my favorite exhibition hall purchase so far

Sticker of the Romulus and Remus haunted wolf mosaic with text I got that dog in me from archaeotees

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A year on, grateful for what was saved. Heartbroken at everything and everyone lost.

A view from a trail in the palisades in 2016

Temescal canyon a few years before it burned

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Tiny joys: living near a ceramics studio (these are by Sunhye Lee & they’re available at Still Life Studio in Santa Monica)

Little bunnies holding up espresso cups and a polar bear coffee cup behind them, absolutely adorable

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

playing the little puzzle game for an escape but there’s no real escape

Detail from clues by Sam puzzle with a criminal asking if selling forgeries is really that wrong if no one spots the difference

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