A 2nd c BC limestone grave-marker from Tremithousa, Cyprus, on which a man and woman flank a deceased man. Note the placement of the hands 👋🏼. On display, Room 72, @britishmuseum #britishmuseum #cyprus #sculpture #sculpturesnippets #funerarysculpture #archaeology

Here’s a #Chalcolithic pottery ossuary from Azor, Israel. Used to hold the bones of the dead, this 🏠 house-shaped box was originally painted—its gables and windows decorated and delineated with pigment. 🎨 Held @britishmuseum in Rm 59.

I've decided to attempt a sculpture-focused Instagram (@sculpturesmith). This emerged after spending the last year leading tours of sculpture in the British Museum. I'll try my best to include as much geographic, temporal, and material breadth as possible. Follow, if interested!

Is this Italy....Croatia....Greece? No, it's Lowther Castle in Cumbria! What a glorious Wednesday visit to @lowthercastle.

Getting tucked into new research ideas on cross-objects, so thought I'd share the best cross-object I personally own: a creation of the uber talented @3Dgroovanstones. Now would you just look at the height of that felted relief! (not a phrase I wrote into the high cross PhD) 😍😅

Do you work on Roman or early medieval sculpture or stone architecture on the Continent? If so, what corpora, catalogues, or sources do you use to get a sense of sculpture/architecture by region? Surely there are Pevsner-equivalents?

Also, I'm compiling a list of articles, books, etc on early medieval pilgrimage from Britain to Rome through continental Europe. Anything you've read recently or in the past and really recommend?!

Any recommendations for good maps or diagrams of early medieval/medieval pilgrimage routes to Rome through Europe? Maybe you've published one, maybe you've seen one recently?! (Preferably beginning in Britain, but not essential) Thanks in advance!

An unexpected layoff, some rejected funding, & all around low mood has caught up to me. Job hunt takes priority over doing or thinking anything academic-y these days. For those who've been in a similar place post-PhD, what are concrete ways you keep your research/curiosity alive?

And, yes, as a proud supervisee/student of the great Jen Trimble at Stanford I'm revisiting her book and using it to think back to 5th c BC Greece, across to 2nd c BC Egypt, and forward to early medieval Europe. (Can't look at anything sculpture without an eye to the early med!)