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Henry Colburn's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 19 hours, 1 minute ago
Henry Colburn deposited A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff in the group Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 days, 5 hours ago

The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff in the group Archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 days, 5 hours ago

The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff in the group Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 2 days, 5 hours ago

The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff in the group Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 days, 5 hours ago

The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, My Latest Triumph, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 days, 8 hours ago

I am not prone to self-aggrandizement, but this is my website, after all. Therefore, I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest [insert superlative here] article, ‘A Brief Historiography of Parthian […]
Henry Colburn deposited A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff on Humanities Commons 2 days, 8 hours ago

The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, I'm in Archaeology Magazine!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 week ago

I’m famous! Well, not really. But I am in the latest issue of Archaeology magazine, quoted in a wonderful article about my old friend Udjahorresnet.

The man himself

The article is by Daniel Weiss, the […]
Henry Colburn's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 week ago
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The First Black Archaeologist, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago

I’ve been meaning to plug a book I finished reading last week: The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert, by John W. I. Lee.

Gilbert, who studied at Paine College and Brown University […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Great Civilisations: Greece and Persia at the British Museum, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Next month I’ll be giving a talk at the British Museum at a member’s conference entitled ‘Great Civilisations: Greece and Persia,’ held in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece’ […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The greatest of all time, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month ago

This spring I am teaching a course at Hofstra University entitled ‘Before Bitcoin: The Early History of Money’ (a title suggested by the History Department to get butts in seats, successfully I might add), and […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, My new favorite word…, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

…is Regenbogenschüsselchen. It means ‘rainbow cups,’ and refers to concave electrum coins minted by the Celts. That explains the ‘cup’ part; ‘rainbow’ is because they were often found after heavy rainfall in […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, On who gets the jobs, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

I do not much use the Twitter, except to find out when street cleaning is suspended in Jersey City. But today I was pointed to a ‘tweet’ (as I understand it is called) by Michael Taylor at SUNY Albany lamenting […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, How (Not) to Find Persians in Egypt, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Next week I’m headed off to Los Angeles for the first Achaemenid Workshop at UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center, entitled “Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World.” My talk is entitled “How […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The OI is dead! Long live the…ISAC-WANA?, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago

I’m sure you’ve all been watching the news with bated breath today (no, not the thing about the fat guy getting arrested in New York); I certainly have. But what to make of the result? I offer my uninformed […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, For a Little Time Only, Take Back One Kadam to Honor the Hebrew God whose Ark This Is!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago

I do not often use the Facebook. When I do, it is mostly to see videos posted by the Kabul Small Animal Rescue. But sometimes it leads to great discoveries, or to be precise, it leads me to great discoveries made […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, In memoriam Lance Reddick (1962-2023), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Today it is my sad duty to commemorate the passing of Lance Reddick. He was easily one of my favorites, not least for his distinctive saunter, and to an extent I felt like I knew him because his best roles (in my […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Hold onto your potatoes!, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago

As an archaeologist, and, well, as a human being, I wish to congratulate Ke Huy Quan on his Oscar. My eight-year-old self definitely wanted him to win for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (to be clear, I was […]
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Prophet Jonah at Open Mic Night in Nineveh, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago

“Assyria! What a country! Everything is great. The food is great. In Assyria you eat all kinds of great fish. In my country, great fish eats you!”

(No wonder he’s one of the minor prophets.)
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Henry Colburn

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Henry Colburn

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