Thanks to Dave Winer for the moment of clarity on a busy Monday... Pownce : Note From davew: "I just re-discovered this John Lennon song, and I can't stop listening to it, it's so beautiful. Wanted to share it with my Pownce buds. If you like it send a bit of instant karma JL's way and do something kind to the planet." Head over and get your Karma on...
User Gauis Caecilius is posting pics of Jerash (Gerash) in Syria on his Flickr page. Beautiful stuff if you're interested in the Roman Empire and it's reach into Palestine and Syria.
One of my main passions offline is research into Dura Europos. I had the privilege to catalogue, photograph and work with much of what remains of Dura Europos' artwork while a grad student at Yale (Yale led the Dura Europos excavations in the 1930's and brought thousands and thousands of pieces back to the Yale Art Gallery where much of it resides in the basement of the ...
I recently found a replica of one of my favorite pieces of art and history, the statue of Ashurnasirpal II in the round from the Temple of Ishtar. Ashurnasirpal was the ruler of Assyria in the 9th Century BCE and a very interesting historical figure. My little book published by Yale University Press last year (Asia Has Claims Upon New England) was about the artwork in his palace ...
I came across this almost startling image of Jesus on the Roman Army Talk forum... What is so fascinating about this image is Jesus' representation in full Roman soldier garb. I haven't come across many of these types of representations of full Jesus as soldier in my studies. However, this isn't an ancient phenomenon. We have always imagined Jesus in our own image: ...
They look stunning. Can't wait to visit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Greek and Roman Art
Weird to see that my little book on Assyrian art at Yale University is in a number libraries around the country... Asia has claims upon New England : Assyrian reliefs at Yale by Sam B Harrelson WorldCat: Asia has claims upon New England : Assyrian reliefs at Yale
Tonight I was going through some old files and stumbled upon a data CD with a label from 2002. Curious as to what was on the CD, I popped it into the laptop and up came nine images from my days at Yale. Specifically, these were images I took from an examination that was done on the Yale University Art Gallery's collection of reliefs from the palace of ...
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