Scott McDonough
Historian of the late ancient world: Sasanian Iran, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Roman Empire. Professor at William Paterson University. I like cats, photography, and sweet cabbage pierogi.
- Reposted by Scott McDonoughThe public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
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- Any suggestions for (very) short trips out of Santa Fe? I have a conference there in April and was thinking of flying into ABQ and renting a car. I've been considering: Abiquiu/Ghost Ranch Puye Cliff Dwellings Bandelier National Monument I've seen Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks, which were spectacular
- It's astonishing how quickly some things can be resolved with a phone call (something I will never do without prompting).
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- Reposted by Scott McDonoughSome very interesting reading from @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill! academic.oup.com/past/advance...
- How many different "Pompeii of the..." formulations have you encountered? Akrotiri, Pompeii of the Aegean Panjikent, the Central Asian Pompeii Joya de Cerén, Pompeii of the Americas Lajia, China's Pompeii Hasanlu Tepe, Pompeii of Iran (Iron Age) Shahr-e Sukhteh, Pompeii of Iran (Bronze Age) 1/
- Reposted by Scott McDonough~ chasing a beautiful supercell thunderstorm across south-central Nebraska on July 1st of 2024 ~
- What is the story is with the big foot on this provincial coin of Trajan Decius? Did the Isindians have a foot idol in their local temple? Something in the Odyssey with Achilles' Elephantiasis? A reference only found in Pausanius' lost Description of Asia? Inquiring minds want to know. #Numismatics
- Mosaics of Hisham's Palace/Qaṣr Hishām/Khirbat al-Mafjar near Jericho. #MosaicMonday
- Why do I find it so much more disappointing that Column of Arcadius in Istanbul/Constantinople survived until 1719, than if it had just been lost in antiquity?
- Reposted by Scott McDonough🎉 publication day! 🎉 editions & translations of the correspondence btw Umar b. Abd al-Aziz and Leo the Isaurian in medieval Latin, Christian Arabic, Muslim Arabic, Aljamiado, Armenian & early modern Latin. plus the intro to explain how they're all related! open access & available here:
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- So, Harrassowitz didn't send me a shipping notification, and USPS never gave me a failed delivery notice, but this is at last in my hands a few weeks late! This monograph is a wonderful 880 page, 1.6kg brick, and my Winter Break ends tomorrow, but I'll do my best... #Sasanian #Zoroastrianism
- I'm teaching my "Silk Road" class this semester, so I can trot out this image again.
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- Additions to my teaching collection of ancient coins from the NYINC yesterday. Fifth, and finally, I got a silver tetradrachm of the Indo-Greek king Menander I Soter (c. 165/155[6]–130 BCE). I use images of this coin all the time in my classes. 1/
- Additions to my teaching collection of ancient coins from the NYINC yesterday. Fourth is a tetradrachm of the Seleucid king Antiochus VIII Epiphanes (125–96 BCE), nicknamed Grypus (Greek: Γρυπός, "hook-nose"). I got it for the portrait, the legibility of the reverse, and its affordability. 1/
- Additions to my teaching collection of ancient coins from the NYINC yesterday. Third up is ANOTHER Sasanian coin (I know, sorry). This one is a drachm of Wahrām II. It is slightly rare, since most coins of Wahrām feature a family portrait of the king, flanked by his queen, facing a prince. 1/
- Additions to my teaching collection of ancient coins from the NYINC yesterday. Second is another Sasanian drachm, this one of Khusrō II (590, 591–628), dated RY 2 and minted in Yazd (YZ). I have a particular fondness for the early coins of Khusrō, minted before his coinage reform of 600–3. 1/
- Additions to my teaching collection of ancient coins from the NYINC yesterday. First up is this drachm of Yazdgard III (632–51), the last Sasanian King of Kings, dated RY 11 and minted in Sakastān (SK). #numismatics #Sasanian 1/
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- Reposted by Scott McDonoughA small and exotic Buddha found far from home in #VikingAge buildings on the Swedish lake island of Helgö. Probably made in the Swat Valley, the Buddha travelled some 5,000 km from its place of origin, encapsulating the idea of long-distance trade during the Viking Age. #Archaeology
- Can anyone recommend a good article summarizing the current status quaestionis of the horse domestication/Indo-European origins/kurgans/chariots debate for an upper level undergraduate course? It could be a popular article.
- Putting aside the absolute hypocrisy of Trump's championing of protest in Iran and ICE oppression in Minneapolis, I'm really curious when he thinks Iran was great. Presumably under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi? Trump's style seems very "2,500-Year Celebration of the Empire of Iran" at Persepolis. 1/
- Organizing my "Silk Road"/History of Central Eurasia syllabus is an exercise in locking geographic, chronological, and thematic organizational schemes in a room and letting them fight it out until all that is left is a bloody pile with random limbs sticking out at unnatural angles.
