✍️ Here's one to chew over while you munch on your mince pies: Calls For Papers for two very exciting events happening in Durham in 2026 👉 British Epigraphy Society spring meeting: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... 👉 'Writing from the margins' conference: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci and Prof. Ted Kaizer, who have a new article in the latest volume of 'Iraq'! 👉 This article is the publication of the first bilingual inscription from Hatra, combining Greek with Hatran Aramaic. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/irq....

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This Friday (24th), starting at 2pm, we're delighted to welcome Prof. Fernando Lozano Gómez and Prof. Elena Muñiz Grijalvo for a double seminar on "Staging imperial power in the Roman empire". In person at 38 North Bailey, @durhamclassics.bsky.social; or contact us for a link to join online.

This Friday (24th), starting at 2pm, we're delighted to welcome Prof. Fernando Lozano Gómez and Prof. Elena Muñiz Grijalvo for a double seminar on "Staging imperial power in the Roman empire". In person at 38 North Bailey, @durhamclassics.bsky.social; or contact us for a link to join online.

💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online! 👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina. 🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team! 🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF

💥 Join us for a special lecture, organised by @camne.bsky.social! 👩🏫 Dr Rachel Phillips ( @britschoolathens.bsky.social ), "Curating the Dead: Body and Image in Early Mycenaean Burials ” 📅 4pm, Thurs 18th Sept 🔗 TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre: buff.ly/2SCBkK0

Join us this Thursday (29/05) @4pm for a masterclass by Prof. Sam Turner (Newcastle): 'The Medieval Mediterranean landscape: practical approaches to understanding its historic character and archaeology’. In person at 38 North Bailey, Durham, or online: contact us for the link.

Presenting ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’ Explore our interactive StoryMap to learn about the ground-breaking work of 20thC women archaeologists storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

🎉 We are delighted to welcome Prof. John Bennet (Sheffield) to Durham this week 💥 Prof. Bennet will give a workshop on the landscapes of Late Bronze Age and Ottoman Messenia 📅 Weds 19 March, 4:15pm 🏛️ The event is organised by @camne.bsky.social

@gorgiaspress.bsky.social @durhamclassics.bsky.social I'm very excited to share that there will be an online book launch for this volume on Feb 25! If you wish to attend, please register via the QR code in the poster! #syriaclexisandlexica

Scholarly crowd sourcing: I’m looking for some studies on pilgrim and/or monastic travel routes in the eastern Mediterranean. I already have Egeria’s travelogue, any others people recommend?

Today!

Workshop on Aristotle soon in Durham! Spoiler: lots of Syriac and Arabic material to be discussed! Join us!

Our first seminar of 2025: join us, in person or online, to hear Dr Giorgia Nicosia discuss the Syriac reception of Greek prophecies about Christ. 4th Feb, 6pm, in the Dept of Classics & Ancient History, Durham.

My review of New Documents in Mycenaean Greek is now out in BMCR! Tldr: essential reference work for Linear B studies, but I've tried to give some tips esp for new students/researchers on how to use it productively & a few things to watch out for bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.12... #AncientBluesky 🏺

LECTURE: The Longest Roman Water Supply Line, a Review After Thirty Years of Research 📆 Tuesday 10 December 2024 ⏰ 18:45 - 19:45 (London GMT) 📍 The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH (In-Person Only) ℹ biaa.ac.uk/events/the-l...

🚨📢 There are only two weeks left to apply for the BIAA's Master's Dissertation Prize! Topics include: archaeology, history, politics, geography, language, art, music, science or other relating to Türkiye and/or the Black Sea. ⏰8th December ℹ️biaa.ac.uk/grants/masters-dissertation-prize/

The little inscriptions from Tell Umm el Marra are causing a bit of a stir (a reading of one has just been suggested). I wish there were more finds contemporary with these... A big problem with "Early Alphabetic" is demonstrating it's a single tradition. www.scientificamerican.com/article/worl...

Coming soon from Mohr Siebeck!

Program of the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (#DANES) annual conference is out! digitalpasts.github.io/DANES2024/#p.... Online event this year with a global list of speakers from Australia to the US. Topics incl. digital methods in archaeology to Ancient Language Processing (ALP).

Interesting reflections on our Syriac conference last spring, by some of those who were there! Read more here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESW...

By popular* demand, a new list of scholars of the Bronze Age Aegean, East Mediterranean, and Near East/South West Asia (epigraphers, archaeologists, linguists, historians et al) bsky.app/profile/did:... I will certainly have missed people out so wave if that's you/tag others! #AncientBluesky 🏺

Join us in Oxford on Dec. 9th for a workshop on Literary Beginnings in Late Antiquity! International experts will discuss the rise of Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and Ethiopic literatures in the early centuries of our era. sites.google.com/view/literar...