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Pasts Imperfect (3.19.26) This week, scholar of late antique Judaism and Angelologist Mika Ahuvia discusses the shared vocabulary of angels in antiquity. Then, ancient graffiti written in South Asian languages are discovered i...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, ancient Judaism expert Mika Ahuvia discusses angels in Late Antiquity. Then, South Asian graffiti in the Valley of the Kings, religion in Sinners, cultural heritage damage in Iran & Lebanon, new ancient journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more 😇

Huge thanks to Michael Motia for the chance to talk about my book on the New Books in Late Antiquity podcast! It was a really fun conversation

newbooksnetwork.com/the-arsacids...

(Please don't mind all of the cross conference posting!)

Morning, #SCS2026 attendees! We're here for a full day in the exhibit hall so come by and check out our latest Classics and Ancient Studies books.

Save 40% on all of our displayed books here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...

The Pearlsong

Look what I got for Hanukkah @acbm.bsky.social!

Get /The Pearlsong/ for a year-end read! It's a pretty book, with pretty scripts, on pretty paper, for just $40, with lots of translations from Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Parthian, and more, and bonus references to several song lyrics.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Bactrian Documents IV Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian Documents IV: Documents from South of the Hindukush, I (Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, Vol. VI Bactrian). London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. With a contribution by Frantz Grenet. Following on from the three volumes of Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan (BD1-3), the present volume primarily contains the edition of a collection of fourth-century letters written on birchbark in a place which cannot be located precisely but which was evidently somewhere to the south of the Hindukush, in what is now Southern Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Bactrian Documents IV

Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian Documents IV: Documents from South of the Hindukush, I (Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, Vol. VI Bactrian). London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. With a contribution by…

خلاصه فارسی کتابم، اشکانیانِ روم | Persian summary of my book, The Arsacids of Rome YouTube video by Jake Nabel

برای دوستان ایرانی

چون کتابی به موضوع تاریخ ایران باستان نوشتم، اینجا کوشش کردم قضیه‌اش را به فارسی توضیح بدم. مطمئنم فارسی‌ام بدون اشتباه نیست، ولی امیدوارم به تبادل نظر بین مورخان ایران باستان در ایران و امریکا کمک کند

Persian summary of my book, w/ English subtitles

youtu.be/2fRcAyJB0uY?...

Journal of Ancient History Volume 13 Issue 1 Volume 13, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Ancient History was published in 2025.

New issue of Journal of Ancient History Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-history.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social
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Thank you so much Sarah! 🙏

Jake Nabel with M. Rahim Shayegan: Book Launch for The Arsacids of Rome (23 April 2025) YouTube video by PSU Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

A recording of this event with Rahim is now up on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CiE...

My dept is kindly hosting a launch event for The Arsacids of Rome tomorrow at 1pm ET!

I'll be joined by M. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA), editor of Iran and the Ancient World, the @ucpress.bsky.social series in which the book appears

Zoom registration here if interested: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you so much! If nothing else, that's what it tries to reconstruct

Thanks so much! I will be honored if it sits on your (digital) bookshelf

Thank you so much!!

Thanks so much for posting it, Arash. The open access PDF is available today, as a matter of fact, at the page you kindly linked.

Pub day! I wrote a book about a group of Parthian royalty who lived at the court of the Roman emperor in the first century CE. Today, finally, it is an object in the world.

You can read the open access PDF here and it would mean the world to me if you did!

www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ar...

The ETHS Talk Series The purpose of the Ērān Tūrān Hrōm talk series (ETHS) is to advance the study of late antique/first millennium West and Central Asia within a broader Global Historical and Afro-Eurasian framework. …

Quite excited to announce that @ekaterinanechaeva.bsky.social & I have started a new talk series which we are calling the Ērān, Tūrān, and Hrōm series, focusing on the global history of the 1st millennium CE, viewed from Central & West Asia.

Find more info at globallateantiquity.com/the-eths-tal...

Excited to welcome Prof. Alice Mandell here on Thursday this week. If you would like to attend on Zoom, here's the registration link: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very useful new review essay of recent (~past ten years) bibliography on Greek and Roman slavery

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Parthian Empire Nabel, Jake. 2022. “The Parthian Empire.” In Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole, 157–63. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Uploaded an overview of Parthian history that I wrote for the Getty's Ancient Iran and the Classical World exhibition a couple of years ago:

www.academia.edu/127894060/Th...

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New issue of Classical Journal Vol. 120, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54292 @projectmuse.bsky.social
@jakenabel.bsky.social

New article in Classical Journal on Greek citizenship in the Parthian empire: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

If you don't have access, lmk and I'll gladly send you a PDF

Conference next week at Columbia:
TOWARDS A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE ACHAIMENID EMPIRE
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New Voices in Iranian Archaeology - Oxbow Books In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of hi...

www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857145...