Category Archive: Another thing

The Ballinderry game board: a warrior's pastime As always in our Another thing posts, we start with what you see. Our object is on display in the National Museum of Ireland's Archaeology exhibit in Dublin and it ... Read More

The ancient statue of Nike by Skopas at Tegea in Greece Take a look at this beautiful ancient Greek statue of Nike in the museum at Tegea in Greece. People often talk about the greatness of Ancient Greece. Why the Greeks, ... Read More

The Motya Charioteer: a world-class ancient sculpture in Sicily Look at him! A fine figure of male beauty, subtle and forceful at the same time. You might already have guessed which ancient culture created this piece, but even if ... Read More

Ancient pottery on Vis in Croatia What do you see? A lot of pots or vases. If you look more closely, there are only two shapes present: a tall and slender jug with a high neck ... Read More

Another thing: display of strength - a Classical cuirass from Syracuse “Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. I'm ... Read More

A sarcophagus from Patara in Antalya Museum: glory beyond death If I tell you its size, you can almost certainly guess what this object is. Carved from marble, it is just under 2m (6.5ft) long, 0.9m (2.95ft) tall and 0.8m ... Read More

The Vindolanda Tablets: Ancient voices from Roman Britain Scraps with scrawls. If you look more closely, the scraps are of wood and the scrawls are writing, in ink. They don't look like much and indeed they were (eventually) ... Read More

The ancient statue of the Sleeping Ariadne in the Vatican Take a look at this ancient statue of the Sleeping Ariadne in the Vatican museum Looking is what you're meant to do: the sculptor intended for you, the viewer, to ... Read More

A painting of Socrates on a fresco in Ephesus, Turkey Take a look at this painting of Socrates on a fresco in a villa in the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey. We see an older man, seated on a white ... Read More

The Archaic Warriors and Ladies of Archontiko in Macedonia Pella is a well-known archaeological site in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece, only 40km (25mi) to the west of Thessaloniki, the region's modern capital. From the 4th to the 2nd centuries ... Read More

Agave Lace: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage from Hvar in Croatia It's a piece of lace. Hvar Lace. I guess one would call it a doily, a small decorative item for a table or another surface. You can't tell from the ... Read More

The ancient Urn of Brasidas at Amphipolis in Greece We're back in Macedonia, Northern Greece, at Amphipolis, site of the celebrated Kasta Tumulus its excavation a few years ago. That story is perhaps awaiting its conclusion. Today, however, we ... Read More

Message on a Column: rewriting history at Mystras “May he have the curses of the 318 God-bearing Fathers of Nicaea and also the curse of me, the sinner. [In] the year 1312." These are the final four lines ... Read More

Greece's Oldest War Memorial on the Acropolis In this post, I want to show you a very unusual monument, seen but not noticed by most visitors to Athens, a monument that, if you know how to 'read' it, ... Read More

Another thing: Sailing the wine-dark sea - ancient ships on a Theran krater Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. What ... Read More