Irene Soto Marín
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Costa Rican Economic Historian of Roman and Late Roman Egypt Lover of running, reading, and birds
“Clearly there was no real barrier to what the Emperor could spend. In practice his financial position tended to coalesce with that of the state, even if Emperors varied in their willingness to exploit this fact.” Duncan-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire, page 43.
6 months ago
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Should I start a new series titled “Sentences I like”? “The literary tradition is typically more concerned with moral stereotypes than with systematic description” Dunca-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire, pg 16.
7 months ago
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The New York Times
7 months ago
Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. Read more:
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Yale Classics Library
7 months ago
New volume of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Vol. 61 (2024)
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Tax and tax evasion!
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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.
A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/science/archaeology-papyrus-tax-fraud-trial.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4hzNH_KfN3Ltf8RNnPi3hfKDJx2TEHPnWtkFIeeX1m11_IQTkczdtwB6sH-g_aem_XQhlSTF5Otr3CgZsdhi8Ow
8 months ago
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Clare Rowan
10 months ago
occasionally in the Roman world women acted to sponsor local coinage, as here on a coin of Eumenea in Phrygia, struck by a high priestess named Bassa, daughter of Kleon. The obverse of the coin shows a bust of Agrippina II and the reverse shows the goddess Cybele.
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Thanks to the Hyperallergic team and my ever-supporting friend and colleague
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add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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Pretty cool find out of Oxy!
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Rare Gold Tongues Found in Egyptian Burial Chamber | Artnet News
A Spanish-Egyptian team of archaeologists has found a three-chamber burial site with fresh wall paintings, amulets, and golden tongues.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-rare-gold-tongues-egyptian-chamber-2591690
12 months ago
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Finally published in BASP 2024! This papyrological edition and commentary took a long time and a lot of work. I hope I did some justice to this important official document, which states the total size of cultivated land for the Oxyrhynchite nome.
12 months ago
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On December 1st, 1948 the Costa Rican government abolished the army. “Dichosa la madre costarricense que sabe que su hijo al nacer jamás será soldado”
about 1 year ago
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Taking a break from academic life to celebrate my brother Andrés who was nominated for a Latin Grammy! Proud Costa Ricans :)
about 1 year ago
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Dan Diffendale
about 1 year ago
my collection of about 14,000 photos (and growing) of ancient Mediterranean (broadly construed) archaeological subjects with Creative Commons license available here:
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diffendale's collections on Flickr
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Carlos Noreña
about 1 year ago
Two graphs that I have recently posted separately actually go together very well as a pair: 1. Global Income Growth by economic percentile, 1988-2008 (Milanovic's "elephant curve"). 2. Increasing use of the term "authoritarian," 1900-2022 (Google N-gram). 1/3
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So excited to speak with Harvard’s Econ Historians today!
about 1 year ago
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Today’s topic in Roman Egypt: “Class and Female Economic Performance in Roman Egypt: Obstacles and Resilience”
about 1 year ago
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I love few things more than a good Roman-period Bes.
about 1 year ago
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows
about 1 year ago
About 3,600 Roman coins discovered with metal detector in Limburg | NL Times -
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About 3,600 Roman coins discovered with metal detector in Limburg
Some 3,600 Roman coins have been found in Limburg, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands confirmed after reports by regional broadcaster L1. According to a spokesperson, these are mainly bro...
https://nltimes.nl/2024/09/21/3600-roman-coins-discovered-metal-detector-limburg
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So many good objects at the Florence Archaeological Museum! The numismatic and textile collection alone were outstanding; I have all these ideas for classes etc. bustling in my head. Academia is hard so these little research and conference trips are good for the renewal of purpose and soul 🤗
about 1 year ago
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Carlos Noreña
about 1 year ago
New review of Peter Brown's *Journeys of the Mind* by Charles Maier, eminent historian of the modern international order. It's a smart discussion, with several useful insights into how Brown's work can help us to understand "structures of order" (an incisive observation, I think)...
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H-Diplo Review Essay 581: Maier on Brown, _Journeys of the Mind_ | H-Net
H-Diplo Review Essay 581Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9780691242286.
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20042450/h-diplo-review-essay-581-maier-brown-journeys-mind
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A package full of econ/numismatic offprints arrived from doktorvater. I feel like I am back in grad school with a reading list 📜📝🪙💰
about 1 year ago
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Clare Rowan
over 1 year ago
a bone gaming piece or 'tessera' reading PRANDIVM (late breakfast/lunch) on one side and with the number six (VI) on the other, now in the Museum August Kestner. Am taking this as a sign that its time to eat lunch!
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One of my favorite things from Raffaella’s library. A Location-List of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri 📜
over 1 year ago
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First day of school! Lovely weather :) Nice to see so many happy faces
over 1 year ago
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Preparing my first lecture for Roman Egypt tomorrow! Below, a 2nd-century CE statue of Hermanoubis, a fusion of Hermes psychopompos and Anubis. The head is adorned w/ a Kalathos and he’s carrying a palm frond in his left hand. Pic from my visit to the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria this summer.
over 1 year ago
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What a momentous day!! I’ve been working on this papyrus for longer than anything in my academic career, including my dissertation and book project. I still cannot believe the awaited proofs are finally here! 📜🫒👨🏽🌾 Coming soon in the next Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists!
over 1 year ago
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Campus looking pretty today!
over 1 year ago
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Best kind of early morning texts!
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over 1 year ago
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Melissa Kutner
over 1 year ago
Proofs day! This one took a very long time to come to fruition, and I'm so excited to see it out in the world later this year in Ancient Society. For those interested in questions of standardization, infrastructure, and the intersections between the two.
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Here I am, laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind
over 1 year ago
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My class on Roman Egypt is going to benefit SO much from my recent trip to Alexandria. The renovated Graeco-Roman Museum was nothing short of pure magic.
over 1 year ago
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Giving this app another go! Excited to share some class content on Roman Egypt and Fashion this semester :)
over 1 year ago
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