@carolinebarron.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Classics (Roman History) @Durham_Classics. Latin inscriptions & the ancient world by day. Rome, dogs, wine & friends by all other means.
π₯ Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'!
π Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya
π Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....
More than anything, I am just delighted that you are looking out for fakes! It makes me so happy!!
11.08.2025 16:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This one is flummoxing me! It's not totally dodgy, but there's something off about it. My guess would be that the top inscription is genuine and that the bottom one was added later, but who knows when. It could also be a very well-executed fake! There will be hundreds of them out there deceiving us!
11.08.2025 12:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and itβs important that itβs published in the NYT.
15.07.2025 07:26 β π 1322 π 532 π¬ 8 π 10WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Thank you!!
30.06.2025 12:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you Jammy π₯°
30.06.2025 12:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!! π
30.06.2025 12:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!
30.06.2025 12:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you, tesoro mio!! I am so pleased!
30.06.2025 11:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!
30.06.2025 11:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you, Liz! Iβm very pleased!
30.06.2025 11:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!
30.06.2025 11:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!!
30.06.2025 11:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβve had a rotten couple of months with various things not going particularly well. But today I have been promoted to Associate Professor @durhamclassics.bsky.social, which is very exciting and the mark of a new chapter! Better things ahead!
30.06.2025 10:58 β π 65 π 1 π¬ 9 π 0Excellent display!!
14.06.2025 21:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for coming! Iβm so pleased you got to see the work the @arcdurham.bsky.social students produced!
09.05.2025 20:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My lovely students from the Pompeii module are exhibiting their visual reconstruction projects today in @durhamclassics.bsky.social! Theyβve produced some excellent work and I am very proud of them.
Poster by Eleanor Paxton π
I hear you. Iβm in the middle of an insomnia wave and itβs debilitating. Getting out is a great plan. Solidarity love x
26.04.2025 09:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'!
πΌοΈ This book follows a 2021β4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron
Solidarity like. Itβs so depressing. Weβve lost our funding at Roman Statutes 2.0 (Chicago) tooβ¦
16.04.2025 20:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On my way to St Andrewβs today to give a paper in the School of Classicsβ research seminar series. Excited to catch up with lots of good people there, and to see the beach!
16.04.2025 09:14 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I (co)-wrote a book! The catalogue for the Piranesi Print Project I co-curated at the British School at Rome has been published, and I am very proud of it! The research for this project was so interesting, and thereβs still work to do! Thank you to everyone who was involved, my heart is full β€οΈ
09.04.2025 13:14 β π 20 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0And so begins another Monday! This weekβs Research To Do List task: finish the revisions to a talk on the Diaspora Revolts in Cyrene under Trajan that Iβm giving in St Andrewβs next week.
And some markingβ¦
Revisions are done and the article is submitted! I don't know if I actually achieved Clever Writing in the end, but it's better than it was before and most importantly it is DONE! Onto the next one...
04.04.2025 15:04 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0V much want to write back with βbut I tried to be clever the first time, donβt make me do it agaaaiiiiinβ
04.04.2025 12:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0HARD agree. And alsoβ¦.aaahhhh.
04.04.2025 11:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Article revisions are sooo nearly finished, but the last recommendation require Clever Writing and I DONβT WANT TO.
04.04.2025 11:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Working on the final revisions to a little article about some Latino-Punic inscriptions in Libya today! Quite pleased with how it's going, and hopeful that I'll be ticking it off the Overdue Research Things To Do List by Friday...hold me accountable please.
02.04.2025 12:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A decorative strap junction from the iron age Melsonby hoard. It's a 20cm long figure of eight shape with openwork decorations and fragmentary coral beads all across its surface.
It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it!
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