Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

18-apr - Durham University

The British Epigraphy Society spring meeting is in Durham! Featuring a viewing of the Lanchester diploma and an optional trip to Chesters. All welcome. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Today! All welcome, in person or online

✍️ Call For participants! '(dh)2: Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists'

📅 Mon 18 May

📚 Essential training on how to design, pitch, and write a successful postdoc project in Digital Classics

🔗 Learn more here: digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/

An international team of researchers, including Dr Michael Loy from @durhamclassics.bsky.social, has uncovered hidden clues about life in the hills of ancient southwest Samos, Greece. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

#DUResearch #DigitalHumanities l @britschoolathens.bsky.social

💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year!

🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha"

📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb

📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw

🔔 E-NEWSLETTER

To learn about the BIAA's recent activities and upcoming events, please view our latest e-newsletter at mailchi.mp/06f4a7bbc940....

✍️ Call For Papers! British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting

📅 Sat 18 April, 10am–5:15pm

📚 Send abstracts to Dr Chris de Lisle by 23 January

🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

✍️ 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....

Apply, and/or tell your students/friends/everyone to apply!

Carved relief of Claudius from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias. In the centre of the scene, the emperor, naked, strides across the panel in vigorous motion, framed behind by a billow of drapery. He receives in his right hand a cornucopia with the fruits of the earth from a small figure emerging from the ground. On the right he receives a steering oar from a sea figure or marine tritoness. She has fish legs and a fish-scale skirt. Image and text adapted from the website of the Aphrodisias Excavations Project.

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.

Carved relief of Claudius from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias. In the centre of the scene, the emperor, naked, strides across the panel in vigorous motion, framed behind by a billow of drapery. He receives in his right hand a cornucopia with the fruits of the earth from a small figure emerging from the ground. On the right he receives a steering oar from a sea figure or marine tritoness. She has fish legs and a fish-scale skirt. Image and text adapted from the website of the Aphrodisias Excavations Project.

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!

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💥 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

A venerable tree on a stony hillside; a figure, tiny in comparison, stands underneath it. In the background, a view across the sparsely wooded valley towards more hills and a low mountain.

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.

Women transcending boundaries Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes

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!

A flyer for the CAMNE seminar, 'From Apollo to Muhammad: Syriac polemical use of Greek prophecies about Christ', delivered by Dr Giorgia Nicosia (Universiteit Gent). 4th February 2025, 6pm, Ritson Room (CL007), Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University. For online attendance, contact mara.nicosia@durham.ac.uk.

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.

Two large volumes of "The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek", edited by John Killen, each with a photograph of a Linear B tablet on the cover. Volume 1: Introductory Essays and drawings of selected tablets; volume 2: selected tablets and endmatter

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/

World's Oldest Alphabet Found on an Ancient Clay Gift Tag A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform

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).

YouTube video by DurhamUniversity Syriac Studies in the UK international conference 2024

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 🏺