Remarkable Things - 2018

Remarkable Things:
The Agency of Objecthood & The Power of Materiality
🗓️10th March 2018 @warwickuni 📧[email protected]

[Remarkable Things - 2018 @RT_HRC]

Outreach Event - 'ANCIENT IMAGES, MODERN EYES: THE CLASSICAL WORLD IN MODERN MEDIA & ADVERTISING'
Weds 6th March 2019
@ClassicsWarwick @WarwickClassNet @OutreachWarwick @warwickengages @warwickuni https://t.co/2NiPTjoo3N

[Adam Parker 🤟🤖 is in need of biscuits. @adamarchaeology]

UTERE FELIX; "Good luck to the user"/"Use happily" was a Latin phrase on all sorts of Roman objects, like this saucepan from Yorkshire (see https://t.co/ecEA3NYNbs and thanks @Bexx_FLO) #FolkloreThursday

[token_communities @ancient_tokens]

many #tokens are similar to coinage, but they don't need to be! 'Pee' tokens from Siam were used as gambling counters (and then small change), they made of porcelain and could come in shapes considered lucky. This piece @ANSCoins is in the shape of a butterfly. #numismatics

[Penn Museum @pennmuseum]

Artifacts within an artifact? Not something you see everyday. Alexis North, Conservator in the @pennartifactlab, examines a necklace from Coban, Guatemala made from black glass roundelle beads and interspersed w/ 144 coins from Guatemala, Mexico, & Spain: https://t.co/cDewKfrBww

[Visuality of Text @VoTWarwick]

The provisional schedule is up and registration open! Come and join us for a discussion of what makes texts tick! There is limited capacity, so be quick! #VisualityofText https://t.co/SaR9MJqCIA

[Pitt Rivers Museum @Pitt_Rivers]

Mount Vesuvius is thought to have erupted #onthisday in AD 79. This is a #Roman bronze amulet from #Pompeii, possibly comprising a manu fica or ‘fig sign’ - a mildly obscene gesture to ward off evil.

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

The possession of talismans & mascots in sports/military has been quite well studied, less so good luck charms and protective talismans in politics. Here's British PM Stanley Baldwin being given a good luck horseshoe to kick off his 1923 campaign. It didn't work. Hung parliament.

[DisabilityHistoryAssociation @DisabilityHistr]

As #disabled soldiers returned from the fronts in increasing numbers, Leslie Collard devised 'talking gloves' using which 'an inexperienced person can communicate with the deaf-blind', who typically used tactile finger language to communicate
#materialculture #dishist #WWI #FWW

[Visuality of Text @VoTWarwick]

Font matters! Credit to @RT_HRC for spotting this! anyone have anything comparable? #VisualityofText

[Remarkable Things - 2018 @RT_HRC]

@GalenOfPergamum @WarwickClassics I am sure we could make an intellectual case for this in the new faculty building..

[S.A.Baloch @asmaaan208]

Letter sent by the high-priest Lu'enna to the king of Lagash (maybe Urukagina), informing him of his son's death in combat, c. 2400 BC, found in Telloh (ancient Girsu) Iraq

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

This magnificent 16th century medicine chest contains 126 bottles and pots for drugs, some of which still have their original contents including some lesser known remedies such as rhubarb powder, ointment for worms, juniper water and mustard oil. https://t.co/GhvI3ydvZ2.

[Object @ObjectBlog]

This article about the objects confiscated from migrants is a great example of just how powerful seemingly mundane objects can be in humanising people. - E
https://t.co/p8wTEz1khR

[Visuality of Text @VoTWarwick]

What happens when words are there, but you can't see them? My amazing artist friend, Kate Mooney, wrote words in butterfly scales on a thread which are only visible with a magnifying glass! (no critters were hurt) #VisualityofText support the #ButterflyCount @davidattenburro

[token_communities @ancient_tokens]

the #Romans thought the neolithic stone axes they came across were thunderstones with magical properties. These are slices of such axes from Pergamon, inscribed with magical inscriptions. https://t.co/QXzhDTBvsv

[Visuality of Text @VoTWarwick]

'My body is a temple' is given new meaning by this tattoo! Ancient Greek for 'Know Thyself,' this inscription was supposedly carved into the entryway of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Body= temple? #NationalTattooDay #VisualityofText @profmcscott

[Icy Sedgwick @IcySedgwick]

The Victorians had a range of mourning customs, often making jewellery containing the hair of the dead as a form of 'memento mori' (translates as 'remember you will die' - cheerful, yes?) #FolkloreThursday

[Dr Jo Ball @DrJEBall]

This bottle is claimed to contain the spirit of a witch. It was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by #archaeologist & folklorist Margaret Murray, who had acquired it from an old woman in Sussex, who warned "... if you let un out there’ll be a peck o’trouble" #FolkloreThursday

[Tiina Äikäs @tiina_aikas]

Thank you notes for Virgin Mary in Rome #ContemporaryDeposits