Heading to Cambridge this morning to give a research seminar on Latino-Punic Inscriptions in a Christian Funerary Landscape. Nice thing to do on a sunny Monday!! See you in the Faculty of Divinity at 2pm!
Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates (online discussion led by Gabriel Bodard and @carolinebarron.bsky.social), Friday 20th February 2026 at 14:00–15:30 GMT
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Happy Monday, 246th January 😩😩😩
Research leave is well and truly over! Was back to it @durhamclassics.bsky.social today, kicking off a new term with Pliny, Epistulae II in Advanced Latin! And you know what, it’s so nice to be back!
(Remind me I said this when I’m tired and grumpy in week 18…)
I don’t hate this…
Officially in print, rather that just first view! Check out vol. 56 of Libyan Studies, featuring a plethora of delightful articles about Libyan epigraphy!
Romeward Bound ❤️
The last 6 months have not been easy, but I’m going Rome for a few weeks and something tells me that everything will get better as a result. A tra poco, città mia!
It’s true! EpiDoc workshop coming to Durham in April 2026! Watch this space for further details.
💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'!
👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya
🔗 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!!
This 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!
This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.
WeTransfer 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!!
Thank you Jammy 🥰
Thank you!!! 😘
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Thank you, tesoro mio!! I am so pleased!
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Thank you, Liz! I’m very pleased!
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I’ve 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!
Excellent display!!
Thank you for coming! I’m so pleased you got to see the work the @arcdurham.bsky.social students produced!
My lovely students from the Pompeii module are exhibiting their visual reconstruction projects today in @durhamclassics.bsky.social! They’ve produced some excellent work and I am very proud of them.
Poster by Eleanor Paxton 😊
I hear you. I’m in the middle of an insomnia wave and it’s debilitating. Getting out is a great plan. Solidarity love x
📚 Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'!
🖼️ This book follows a 2021–4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron
Solidarity like. It’s so depressing. We’ve lost our funding at Roman Statutes 2.0 (Chicago) too…
On my way to St Andrew’s today to give a paper in the School of Classics’ research seminar series. Excited to catch up with lots of good people there, and to see the beach!