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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')

@profyarrow

Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Chair of Classics, Brooklyn College. Typo-Queen. I treat this space like the office water cooler. Blogging at livyarrow.org

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Surely it’s chicken noises? A random mix of chi/qoppa/digamma/epsilon sounds like chickens squabbling: …khekhqwkhekhqwkhqekhe

07.03.2026 11:10 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Truth

07.03.2026 01:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Awww, look at my home state, learning from all the Lost Cause bullshit that echoed in I was taught in school in the '80s.

06.03.2026 21:27 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

06.03.2026 20:21 👍 5563 🔁 1367 💬 39 📌 42

No I did I a quick transcription. Y is a reasonable reading.

06.03.2026 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
bearded man holding rooster kneeling unbearded man holding rooster kneeling

bearded man holding rooster kneeling unbearded man holding rooster kneeling

May the best cock win! I must say I would not want to hold a rooster with exposed genitals. Seems dangerous. Also check out this bizarre inscription

EX ? ? ? C K T K X E X Q K X E X Q E X Q E X E

any thoughts?

collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

06.03.2026 21:23 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0
clay model of cat and rooster

clay model of cat and rooster

Most cats I know would not be able to take an adult rooster. Perhaps this cat is of extraordinary size?
collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

06.03.2026 21:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Mulled Wine So I’m guessing these symbols refer to the drinking of calda (calida), a hot beverage typically of diluted wine.  Not fancy stuff, but the type you’d get in a cheap thermopolia, th…

This brainstorming exercise is leading to many things. 1) how many post do relate to publications past and in progress AND 2) how bad I've been at ensuring my posts have stable images, links, and the right key terms so I can find them again. 2/ livyarrow.org/2020/05/06/m...

06.03.2026 18:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24 out of 410 Days: Proofing Problems This post discusses the production of this publication. ‘Heracles, Coinage, and the West: Three Hellenistic Case-Studies’ in J. Quinn and J. Prag (eds.) The Hellenistic West (Cambridge University P…

I had an idea for a short piece for a festschrift, but then it grew into a mega piece and I sent it off to a journal. Now I'm using my random post button looking for a topic on which I might have something short to say in print; this means I keep reading old posts. 1/ livyarrow.org/2013/07/10/2...

06.03.2026 17:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
RPC 4606 and 4608

RPC 4606 and 4608

The car must have some stand alone significance as it can appear with text in it and no Baetyl. Wierd.

06.03.2026 17:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RPC 3870

Obverse inscription 	ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ ΣΕΒ
Edition 	Αὐτοκράτορι Τραϊανῷ Καίσαρι Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Αὐτο(κράτορι) Τραϊ(ανῷ) Καί(σαρι) Ἁδριανῷ Σεβ(αστῷ)
Translation 	to Emperor Trajan Caesar Hadrian Augustus
Obverse design 	laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription 	ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ
Edition 	Σιδῶνος θεᾶς Σιδῶνος θεᾶς
Translation 	of the goddess of Sidon
Reverse design 	car of Astarte on two wheels; In ex., ZΚΣ
Metal 	copper-based alloy

RPC 3870 Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ ΣΕΒ Edition Αὐτοκράτορι Τραϊανῷ Καίσαρι Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Αὐτο(κράτορι) Τραϊ(ανῷ) Καί(σαρι) Ἁδριανῷ Σεβ(αστῷ) Translation to Emperor Trajan Caesar Hadrian Augustus Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right Reverse inscription ΣΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΘΕΑΣ Edition Σιδῶνος θεᾶς Σιδῶνος θεᾶς Translation of the goddess of Sidon Reverse design car of Astarte on two wheels; In ex., ZΚΣ Metal copper-based alloy

Sometimes you can even see the wings on the Baetyl in the car.

06.03.2026 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm looking at the coins of Sidon for a totally separate reason and getting distracted by the awesome Aniconic Cult Object. This Baetyl and the car it rides in are all over the coins and best of all some times it gets WINGS.

06.03.2026 17:25 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
screen shot of coin database:

Obverse: IMR (sic) CAE MAR (sic) SEV ALEXANDR (sic); laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear
Reverse: COL AVR PIA METR SID; three-quarter view of two-wheel car of Astarte, right, with shrine with four columns within which baetyl on two supports; on the roof, four palm branche

screen shot of coin database: Obverse: IMR (sic) CAE MAR (sic) SEV ALEXANDR (sic); laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear Reverse: COL AVR PIA METR SID; three-quarter view of two-wheel car of Astarte, right, with shrine with four columns within which baetyl on two supports; on the roof, four palm branche

I'm obsessed with how well the 3/4 perspective of this parade car.

06.03.2026 17:15 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.

05.03.2026 15:38 👍 76 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

05.03.2026 04:43 👍 3037 🔁 998 💬 152 📌 95

i am told on here all the time that theres just nothing democrats can do in congress and that its pointless to do messaging bills and yet here is a member of the fucking majority - one of the worst cretins -- doing just that.

04.03.2026 20:24 👍 555 🔁 108 💬 11 📌 4

We do this every summer! 100% works.

04.03.2026 15:07 👍 40 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
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Mosquito Bucket Challenge - Homegrown National Park Natural mosquito control: The Mosquito Bucket Challenge is a safe, affordable way to control mosquitoes without harming kids, pets, or pollinators.

Instead of spraying for mosquitos this summer, try the Mosquito Murder Bucket!

It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area.

#garden #gardening

03.03.2026 17:52 👍 346 🔁 195 💬 14 📌 12

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

02.03.2026 20:52 👍 10991 🔁 4643 💬 210 📌 266

I keep these in my feeds and pause to remember. But this face reminds me of someone I feel I knew and loved. Someone with whom I should have had long conversations with. May her memory be a blessing. May her portrait inspire a world without concentration camps and wars of agression.

02.03.2026 21:14 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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168 killed at girls' elementary school in Iran

abcnews.com/Internationa...

02.03.2026 13:50 👍 160 🔁 139 💬 15 📌 14

Coming up tomorrow! Really looking forward to this...

02.03.2026 20:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AI event with Patrick Burns

AI event with Patrick Burns

If you are in the NYC area, you're invited!! @diyclassics.bsky.social

02.03.2026 13:07 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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One person is setting policy for the entire globe, deciding life and death for people in other countries, with virtually no constraints. Congress has a moral obligation to assert its authority.

02.03.2026 17:08 👍 276 🔁 54 💬 4 📌 8

attn: @karlsteel.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social other BC faculty? RT welcome.

02.03.2026 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI event with Patrick Burns

AI event with Patrick Burns

If you are in the NYC area, you're invited!! @diyclassics.bsky.social

02.03.2026 13:07 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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G’Morn from #Brookside Senior Living. The snow is falling, the crows are calling, and the tea kettling is whistling. Something comforting in that!

#GardenGrewPeas
#TimeForTea

02.03.2026 12:58 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
New bio update postdoc at ITU Copenhagen on theorycraft and archaeogaming

New bio update postdoc at ITU Copenhagen on theorycraft and archaeogaming

Bio update

02.03.2026 12:58 👍 82 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

I find I am honestly unsure what the long term implications are of the United States demonstrating twice in three months that its new preferred way of war is to engage in bolt-from-the-blue decapitation strikes with no obvious follow-up plan.

My instinct is that it will not turn out well.

01.03.2026 15:07 👍 1582 🔁 245 💬 32 📌 21

Mysteriously all the Epstein news seems to have quieted down. Ditto ICE domestic terror.

And replaced with gross loss of lives and global destabilization.

😖🤬

02.03.2026 11:59 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0