Escaped from Oxford to the Peak District for the weekend. Look at how utterly idyllic Lyme Park was today

Remembered at 9pm that I need to write a conference abstract by the end of the day

Profile updated with what I'm currently doing post-doctorally (at the moment, that means getting to grips with the coinage of Clazomenae)

The coinage of Erythrae in Ionia: Sometimes, quite wordy and (to my eyes, pleasingly) complicated reverse designs, other times, not so much:

Very much feeling England as "this blessed plot" as our bus charges along the top of the Cotswolds in the winter sunlight

Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin. ⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen parerga.hypotheses.org/3516

[no title] 1978, John Piper (Toller Fratrum)

Very taken with this late 6th century BC obverse type from Phaselis, on the Lycian coast, depicting a ship's prow in the form of a wild boar.

Far too many of my friends are in Rome right now when I am not in Rome enjoying an Italian spring

Another day, another tourist lost in Wellington Square, a picture of Tom Tower on their phone, looking confused. (I gave them the necessary directions)