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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Most Important Article on Qasr-e Abu Nasr Published This Year (So Far), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days ago
The publishing house of Messrs. Springer and Company proudly present for your consideration in their esteemed periodical Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (Volume 17) “Sasanian and early Islamic c […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Happy World Toilet Day!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
In honor a holiday that I never knew existed, I wish to share a picture of a toilet. But not just any toilet; it’s an ancient toilet from Teotihuacán, probably dating to about 250 CE.
Toilet at Teotihuacán ( […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Original Prairie Schooner, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Almost ten years ago Anna Garvey came up with a term that actually describes my generation, wedged between the Gen-Xers and the Millennials: the Oregon Trail Generation.
Any true member of the Oregon Trail […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Next month I’ll be giving a paper entitled “Greek Style and the Problem of Parthian Art” at the conference Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World, the poster for which is below. (I’m very impressed with myself […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Death of an Email Account, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
As of yesterday, one of my stable of email accounts is no more: hpc4476@nyu.edu. I haven’t taught there in a while, so I am hardly surprised. Never fear, though; my Michigan, Cooper Union, Hofstra and Bard emails […]
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Henry Colburn's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Gravitas, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Today is a special day. Not just because there is a tornado warning here in northern New Jersey, but because at long last a very hefty volume entitled In Search of Cultural Identities in West and Central Asia: A […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Latest on Parthian Art, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
My latest publication Parthian art, that is, has just been published by Brepols in an open access volume entitled Palmyra in Perspective, edited by the indefatigable Rubina Raja. It stems from a conference in […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The First Spork?, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
For a number of years I have carried this handy item with my lunch:
Technically, it’s not actually a spork because it’s fork and spoon ends are on different sides rather than combined as is customary. […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Concerning Canine Facial Expressions in Pompeian Wall Paintings, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
This morning I read in the New York Times about the discovery of some previously unknown murals in Pompeii. This is exciting, of course, and not surprisingly I was especially drawn to this painting of Helen and […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, A Game of Cat and Mouse?, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
I saw this ostracon at the Brooklyn Museum today:
Cat and Mouse, ca. 1295-1075 BCE. Brooklyn Museum, 37.51E.
According to the label, it dates to the late New Kingdom, and depicts a mouse seated on a chair […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, A Dental Conundrum, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I went to see Dune Part 2 yesterday. Like the first installment it was spectacular, a sort of Lawrence of Arabia in space. But the film raised some significant questions. Why does everyone still use swords in the […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, One of Herakles' Lesser-Known Epithets, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
(My wife came up with this one.)
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Instructions for Proper Use, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Today, whilst I was at the Brooklyn Museum with my students, a tourist with a British accent interrupted our discussion of Neo-Assyrian reliefs to ask why some of the Apkallu-figures had wristwatches and […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Ugly Sister, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Before anyone pillories me as a chauvinist pig on Twitter (or whatever it’s called now), I hasten to point out that a) I don’t have a sister, and b) I’m talking about an object that was made when my ancestors in […]
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Henry Colburn's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Peer Reviewing Peer Review, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
After not attending for some time, I went to the AIA meeting in Chicago this past weekend. It was worse than I remember; almost every session was some variation on “Recent Fieldwork in Italy” or “3D […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Foxy Grandpa, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Before anyone gets too excited, the title of this post is a direct quote from a preliminary report on the excavations at Qasr-e Abu Nasr (in modern Shiraz, Iran) published in the Bulletin of the Metropolitan […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Of Names, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
I read recently that my old graduate program, Michigan’s Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, has changed its name, substituting ‘Ancient Mediterranean’ for ‘Classical.’ The new acronym i […]
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Henry Colburn commented on the post, The Not-So-Deep History of a Fashion Faux-pas, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
I’m so happy to hear that!
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