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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nice to see some Medieval Peasant Revolution material coming our way. Seems that we will be unshelving our Rodney Hilton "Bond Men Made Free" copies after quite a while...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The clay tablet has been published with great care and detail in: Summa, D., Hallof, K., Kolia, E.-I. and Lang, F. (2022) “Homerverse auf einem Tonziegel aus der Umgebung von Olympia”, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2, pp. 1–43 publications.dainst.org/journals/aa/...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The text is remarkable as it describes the visit of Odysseus at the pigsty of the the loyal swineherd Eumaeus during his return to Ithaca. Maybe it was created for a proud local landowner, appreciating the Homeric description of a rural estate and related it to their own Eumaeus.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nolan's Odyssey is trending, so I look to the most remarkable Odyssey connected recent archaeological find: a Roman clay brick found in 2018 at the necropolis of ancient Olympia (Peloponnese) dating around 200 CE, its surface inscribed with the first 13 verses of Odyssey Book (Rapsody) 14!

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Join us on May 19th for the 4th Byzantine Workshop: LIVED TERRITORIES, GOVERNED TERRITORIES! Co-organized by NHRF, EFA, and CNRS HISOMA. I'll be present on Byzantine agrarian territory, landscape archaeology and Jacques Lefort's work.

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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🏛 "La Société féodale" (1939-1940), dernier livre paru du vivant de Marc Bloch en deux volumes, ouvrage de synthèse sur l’Europe latine aux siècles centraux du Moyen Âge, apparaît comme l’œuvre de toute une vie. Écoutez Florian Mazel, professeur à #Paris1PanthéonSorbonne 👉 swll.to/Or0phX

Portrait en noir et blanc de Marc Bloch portant un costume, une cravate, une chemise blanche et des lunettes rondes. Sur la droite de l’image, fond jaune, le texte « La société féodale » et « Florian Mazel » est écrit en bleu.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"Διομήδης χρηστιανός" was carved above the grave of a Roman Messenian at a time when most of his fellow citizens still worshipped the old gods. Diomedes, who likely died in the late 3rd CE, was decided to boldly declare his identity on the family funerary monument among a pagan cemetery. #Messene

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Here are the videos of all our presentations from the International Workshop «SUBURBAN LANDSCAPES, MATERIAL CONTEXTS, AND PRODUCTIVITY: THE MEDITERRANEAN IN THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD (4TH-8TH C)» from past June 2025 at University of Alcala @uahes.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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International Workshop. Paisajes suburbanos, contextos materiales y productividad: El Mediterráneo en Época Postclásica (siglos IV-VII/VIII d.C.) - YouTube

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I'd raise another issue: most of the positive DNA samples studied are being regarded as coming from individuals who died of the plague. This is a relationship that needs to be proven, as part of the infected population survives. Also the archaeology of the cemeteries does not reveal a clear urgency.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The argumentation by Hines seems reasonable. Locating pre-541 samples of Yersinia Pestis in Britain causes a major disrupt in our understanding of the spread of the Justinianic Plague.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

An unexpected discovery: a match box from Spain from the 1960s or 1970s portraying a #Byzantine Dromon, as part of a series on historical ships...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Back to Earth! So, Musk's "America Party" draws inspiration from Epaminondas & the Battle of Leuctra. Meanwhile, we're literally excavating the legacy of that era at #Messene! ✨ Our archaeological team revealing the great city Epaminondas founded.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Living the Dr. Strangelove times! The absurdity of bombing randomly explained. A masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, brought to life by Peter Sellers.

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Christos G. Makrypoulias @christos-mak.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Remembering historian Marc Bloch, a great medievalist, veteran of both World Wars and hero of the French Resistance, executed by the Germans on this day in 1944.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters / Ο ύπνος της λογικής δημιουργεί τέρατα). Francisco Goya, 1799

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ever wonderd how crucible steel arrows were used in the Byzantine-Arab wars? Here is new research from Amorium: Güder, Ü. et al. From Crucible Steel to the Battlefield: Investigating a Unique Early Medieval Arrowhead from Anatolia. Metallogr. Microstruct. Anal. (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s136...

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From Crucible Steel to the Battlefield: Investigating a Unique Early Medieval Arrowhead from Anatolia - Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis

An arrowhead that was recovered during the excavations of the lower city church of Byzantine Stronghold Amorium in central Anatolia has been subjected to archaeometric analysis. Coins discovered in th...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Early medievalists and Calvino's "Invisible Cities" a never-ending postmodern embrace. Now for Spain and North Africa "¿Ciudades invisibles? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III-VIII)" www.casadevelazquez.org/es/publicaci...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Maybe share it with some Islamic art and archaeology people @stephenniem.bsky.social

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Also, if anyone knows any comparanda would be nice to know.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Islamic objects in Byzantine lands. A bronze disk weight found in #Amorium. Reflecting on material culture from Amorium, a city sacked in 838 CE by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutassim. Ideas after a great conference on Early Medieval Byzantine #Anatolia, the frontier of Arab-Byzantine confrontation.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Amorium is on the move! Bringing our latest insights from #Byzantine Central Asia Minor to Spain! 🇪🇸✈️ Next week at the "Suburban Landscapes, Material Contexts, and Productivity: The Mediterranean in the postclassical period (4th-8th c.)" conference organised by the University of Alcalá and @csic.es

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Off to Mainz and @leizarchaeology.bsky.social for an exciting conference on Byzantine Early Medieval #Anatolia 600-900 CE presenting a paper entitled: "Towards an Archaeology of Crisis: #Amorium and the Anatolian Plateau between the 7th and 9th Century"

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Reading this great piece of work! Congrats to @historyastheory.bsky.social and highly recommended reading for all historians around, byzantinists or not.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Wine-making in 8th/9th century Byzantine Amorium as conceived by Gemini AI.

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Daphne Papadopoulou @daphnenews.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Greece's Central Archaeological Council rejected a request by director Yorgos Lanthimos’ production team to film scenes of his upcoming movie at the Acropolis hill, claiming they "are incompatible with the symbolism and values represented by the Acropolis." www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1266...

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Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ abandons plans to film at the Acropolis | eKathimerini.com

The production team behind maverick Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming sci-fi comedy “Bugonia” has officially abandoned efforts to film at the Athens Acropolis or any nearby archaeological site...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Early Christian views of the city. Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Both Roman and Byzantine...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Si fueris Romae... (When in Rome...) #Messene is travelling to Rome this Friday 4.4.25 as I will be presenting new evidence on the Early Christian & #Byzantine archaeology of Messene at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana. All Roman friends are welcome to join!

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Want to see some 8th-9th c. #Byzantine sarcophagi from Asia Minor connected with Iconoclasm (probably)... Don't miss the online conference 'Funerary Archaeology of Byzantine Constantinople', 16-17.01

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Martina Filosa @sealygirl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’ve started putting together a starter pack for Byzantine Studies! Drop me a message if I missed you, and let’s start a conversation! 🌻

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Continuing on Anglo-Saxons who served in the #Byzantine Army from the article @helengittos.bsky.social in EHR, stuck on the imported to England Byz bronze flagons, like the one from Prittlewell, set against Byz finds from our projects like: Eleutherna (Crete) or Amorium (Asia Minor) (ours are 8th c)

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Karagkiozis shadow puppet theater (καραγκιόζης/ karagöz) remains for me, even in my late 40s, one of the funniest shows.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Our excavation at #Amorium continues even in the difficult Anatolian winter. A Beylik or Early Ottoman (13th-15th c.) era bath is being currently unearthed with characteristic hypocausts even in this late date. www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur/am...

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 05/11/2023

Why #ContextMatters (not only, but particularly) in #archaeology 🏺: An archaeological artifact without its documented find context is … like an image ripped from a book (and the rest of the pages torn into shreds): something nice to look at, but missing the actual story about it.

Cartoon-style infographic illustrating the importance of archaeological find contexts and emphasising that undocumented unsystematic excavations would destroy this context and lose important information telling archaeologists much more about the past than retrieved objects alone.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

So for #epigraphyTuesday I'll pose my first bluesky academic question... Does anybody know any work of reference on Epigraphy and Inscriptions on Late #Roman/ Early #Christian/ #Byzantine sarcophagi? I'm working on the relation between text and chest/lid and it's difficult to find anything focused.

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Brad Hostetler @bradhostetler.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New contribution to the Elements in the History of Constantinople by Cambridge University Press: The Chora Monastery of Constantinople by Emmanuel S. Moutafov Free download until January 2! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Cambridge Core - European Studies - The Chora Monastery of Constantinople

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Some of the best mosque buildings in Istanbul, especially the one at the back.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

DM me then, maybe I'll be around for work. Happy to show you around and discuss things.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The audience hall of a 4th century domus (civic mansion) in the city of #Messene in SW Peloponnese. A Late Antique seat of local power decorated with opus sectile and mosaic floors and a collection of older statues that were portrayed along its back wall.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Great to see the La Chronique/The Chronicle. To be followed by anyone interested in archaeology in Greece! bsky.app/profile/lach...

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our director at ancient Messene, the late Petros Themelis, was the archaeologist who excavated this goodie in one of his first ever excavations in his early 20s. Imagine the excitement!

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Byzantine Early Medieval sarcophagi are not very well known but there seems to be a pattern of 7th and 8th century marble sarcs with vaulted lids in far away places like Amorium in Asia Minor and Ravenna in the Adriatic just missing the connecting link, that probably was Constantinople.

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Right on spot on the obverse. Here it is with a fine patriarchal cross and a bit too much of floral decoration:

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I know of two individuals with the name: i) a Moschonas Karbeas, a Tourmarch in an 11th c. monastic donation and ii) a Moschonas in another donation of the 13th c. Here is the first: pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/157358/

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Person Details | PBW

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Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Presenting tomorrow 27.11.2024 on Closed Byzantine Pottery Assemblages of the 9th century from our Large Building trench in Amorium. At the "Complex Realities: Medieval Pottery Contexts in Eastern Mediterranean" International Workshop in Athens organised by @oeai.bsky.social. Join us if around!

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