Reposted by Scott McDonoughAdam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A deluge of dots. Esp. in unvocalized texts, dots will help you wend your way amid Syriac grammatical and lexical options. Here are some common uses (from my grammar): 3163
Reposted by Scott McDonoughChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I say Democrats are fighting for a future for America's children this is what I mean. You might not have heard about it but the Sternberg is one of the most illustrious centers of paleontology in the United States. It needs to be available for the public to appreciate.kansasreflector.comKansas Legislature's budget cuts compel Fort Hays State University to close Sternberg Museum • Kansas ReflectorFort Hays State University, grappling with a $2.4 million state-ordered spending cut, will close the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. 113640
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Intaglio gem of Armenian Queen Varazduxt ("Daughter of the Wild Boar/Verethragna"), inscribed ΕΡΜΙΟΝΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ ΟΥΑΡΑΖΑ ΔΟΥΚΤΑ. Kunsthistorisches Museum Antikensammlung, IX 1989. 1/ 130
Reposted by Scott McDonoughNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school. 328099
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I come to Bluesky for archeology postings, but I stay for the Deep Space 9 discussion and analysis. 010
Reposted by Scott McDonoughSLAM: Islamic Art @slamislamicart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Small “Chessboard” Carpet www.slam.org/collection/objects/330… 032
Reposted by Scott McDonoughTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note. 543307753
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glaring lack of The Venture Bros. The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 000
Reposted by Scott McDonoughFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My patrician told me Phoenicians keep eating his consuls so I asked how many consuls he has and he said he just goes to Fields of Mars and has a dictator for elections send him a suffect consul afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding consuls to Phoenicians and then Two started crying. 017424
Reposted by Scott McDonoughSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen. 1462380
Reposted by Scott McDonoughShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026wild, because me and mine did not have this shared experience. the fact that you don’t recognize the intense racism that proliferated post-9/11 tells me you can’t see the current political situation clearly, either. 622435
Reposted by Scott McDonoughDr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before 664336771
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Call for papers for an upcoming symposium honoring the inimitable Amir Harrak. Please spread the word widely. 022
Reposted by Scott McDonoughNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A medieval #ship was reused as basement ceiling in Konstanz (Southern Germany), it reveals rare clues medieval shipbuilding at Lake Constance. archaeologymag.com/2026/08/medi... 726853
Reposted by Scott McDonoughbig bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time 216167604235
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. Much more recent than most of the things I post, but still pretty old for Manhattan (c.1785). dyckmanfarmhouse.org 020
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I could spend an entire semester class unpacking this single screenshot. 051
Reposted by Scott McDonoughCarausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This incredible monochrome mosaic shows two cloaked figures readying to sacrifice. There is something very modern about the design and the figures, like an illustration from a credit reel in a 1950s sand and sandals movie, and I love it. 🕰️C3rd AD 🏛️ Museo Nazionale Romana 📷 mine #MosaicMonday 614928
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Anyone else print up large-print version of their conference speaking texts as they grow increasingly decrepit with age? 120
Reposted by Scott McDonoughThanks, I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The other thing people need to know about ZZ Top starts with a different band. 🧵 The Zombies were a mid-60s psychedelic band built around a show-offy keyboard player (I say approvingly, as a one-time show-offy keyboard player.) They got some critical acclaim but couldn’t score a hit. 184
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Northwestern's administration shows what side they're on. 010
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Any recommendations for must see/do/taste for three days in Budapest next week? For good or ill, my arrival coincides with St. Stephen’s Day. My main goals are to see Migration Era (Hun and Avar) artifacts and the Monomachus crown, soak in a thermal bath, and eat too much paprika. 040
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New translation of a major part of a vitally important text for the late Sasanian and Early Islamic period, and for the history of the Church of the East. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...hup.harvard.eduThe Chronicle of Seert, ca. 580–660 — Harvard University PressThe Chronicle of Seert, a Middle Arabic history written in the late tenth or eleventh century, draws on earlier Syriac sources from the Church of the East dating back to the sixth and seventh centurie... 33115
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Dumb question. I've been driving on Long Island (home of my Dad's family) and I'm curious about the parkway names. My relatives stress/shorten them to "Southern/Northern State," but was the stress originally supposed to be on "State Parkway" since they aren't in northern and southern New York State? 000
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I've never seen Alexander Svoboda's photos of the Ṭāq Kasrā Sasanian Palace at al-Madāʾin, Iraq. Taken before the 1887–88 collapse of the north half of its east façade. Really spectacular. #Sasanian 1338
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This stucco winged horse from a Sasanian-era house at Umm al-Za'tir, al-Madāʾin, Iraq is gorgeous. I wonder if it's on display at the Iraq Museum? 040
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Does anyone happen to know where I might find a higher resolution scan of this aerial photo of Antakya from the 1930s (probably 1937)? It's supposed to be archive of the Princeton Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes, but I've been through about 2000 images online and haven't found it. 330
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I wonder if the designers of the current MacBook screen realized they were making the greatest cat head scratcher? 060
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Contemplating spending a ruinous amount on The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches, if Brepols offers a discount at the International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Vienna: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... I need my critical edition of the the synodal acts of the Church of the East. 180
Reposted by Scott McDonoughDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/ 633199
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'd really like to know more about silver talers. This "Wild Man" taler from the principality of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg is pretty snazzy. 251
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I like how the Artuqids of Mardin (1101–1409) looked at Islamic numismatic tradition and said, "yes, and..." #numismatics 171
Reposted by Scott McDonoughKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development 240683922
Reposted by Scott McDonoughQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-... 39975831340
Reposted by Scott McDonoughSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A game board from the forum of Timgad (Algeria) is a more Roman spin on the trite ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ sign. Replacing hunting w/cheese & and I am in, y’all. ‘venari lavari / ludere ridere / (h)oc{c} est / vivere’: ‘to hunt, to bath, to play, to laugh — This is to live!’ (CIL VIII, 17938). 🛁 08429
Reposted by Scott McDonoughAndy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences. 141078260
Reposted by Scott McDonoughLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes" 17107172609
Reposted by Scott McDonoughJakub Sypiański @sypianski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I built a free scholary converter for 20 premodern calendar systems — Julian, Hijri, Solar Hijri, Coptic, Armenian, Byzantine, Syriac, Athenian and more: kalkal.online 79943
Reposted by Scott McDonoughAnna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Back in the second century, someone in ancient Nubia thought life is better with a frog mug. ❤️ 14763164
Reposted by Scott McDonoughMedieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026Scriptorium in the clouds. Gospels of Sainte-Aure, France 9th century. BnF, Arsenal 1171, fol. 17v. #medieval #MedievalArt 18318
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The recent article by Touraj Daryaee, "A Fragrance for Every Woman, Man, and Child: The Smell of the Sasanian Empire" brought this wonderful silk textile in the David Collection of Copenhagen (inv. 23/2011) to my attention. It features a pattern of enthroned Sasanian kings. 1/ 2144
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 28/06/2026As someone who has spend a lot of time over the years reading acts of Church councils as a sideline to my research this is just...*chef's kiss*. 120
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 27/06/2026A Sasanian-era seal of a Bābōy "the head" with an image of the Good Shepherd on it. Christelle Jullien, et. al. argue in a recent (2023) article that it might be the seal of the late 5th century Church of the East Catholicos Bābōy. If it actually is, then there's a hell of a story attached to it 1/ 38312
Reposted by Scott McDonoughEnnius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The symbols of the evangelists BnF MS Latin 9392; Gospels of Senones Abbey (dioc. of Saint-Dié); 11th century; ff.7v, 26v, 63r, 121v @gallicabnf.bsky.social 0228
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I picked up this very text-heavy denarius to give my students a chance to puzzle out the meanings of Latin imperial titles and offices. Domitian really put it all out there on this little coin. 1/ 130
Reposted by Scott McDonoughBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Guys has anyone actually read this article? 351246235
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I love tetradrachms. Here's one in the collection minted by Tigranes II the Great of Armenia (r. 95–55 BCE). Love his spiky tiara with eagles and ear flaps, and the Tyche of Antioch and the river god Orontes on the reverse, commemorating his assumption of power over Syria from the Seleucids. 050
Reposted by Scott McDonoughAdam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Then it's worth mentioning the Middle Persian word for "giraffe": /uštargāwpalang/ (NP شترگاوپلنگ /šotorgāvpalang/) (camel+cow+leopard) 311542