Have you ever wanted to read my book, but thought it was 315 pages too long? If so, I have good news. Thanks to The Egyptian Society of South Africa, I have written a three-page précis of it for their newsletter Shemu, which they have kindly made available here. I really love sharing my research with the public; I consider it to be my sacred duty, and it’s always rewarding to reach a interested audience!
The Number One (and Number Two) Place in Ephesus
I assume Saint Paul was thinking of this when he wrote “speak every man truth with his neighbor; for we are members one of another” (Ephesians 4:25).
Hittite Ceramics
Seen along the highway between Kula and Uşak:
Now I know where to go the next time I need a gross of libation vessels!
Veritatem dilexi
As it says at the top, I delight in the truth, and I especially delight in this truth, that I’ll be teaching in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College (whose motto is veritatem dilexi) in the 2025-26 academic year. It is merely in the capacity of a sabbatical replacement, I’m afraid, so it will only add to my plethora of email addresses rather than consolidating them. Still, it is a splendid opportunity to spend a year on a beautiful Collegiate Gothic campus with students, faculty and library books of the highest caliber. More importantly, it is an essential break from the mind-numbing and humiliating grind that is life as an adjunct professor. After what I can only imagine with be a paradisiacal year, I should have the mental fortitude to face those horrors once more.
If you need to contact me, all of my previous email addresses (except for NYU) still work and will still be monitored by me and my staff (who, as you can see from the picture, are, as usual, asleep on the job).
