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Annie C Burman

@anniecburman.bsky.social

she/her Classicist, epigraphist and linguist, focusing on Sabellic and Etruscan. Currently conducting research on the Etruscological archive collection of O.A. Danielsson at Uppsala University.

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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sweet Jesus. So concerned about stopping people right-clicking your public collection of images that you put the whole lot in a private DRM provider that goes under, and the whole lot is fucked. Sweet. Jesus.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I will never get over this drawing of Danielsson's of a snake from Tomba dell'Orco. It looks so pleased with itself. It's being held by a fearsome demon, but its little face is saying 'helloooo'. #epigraphy #etruscan #tarquinia

Ink drawing on illustration board of the head and upper body of a snake. Beside the snake is an Etruscan inscription. The snake has a very pleased facial expression.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last night I had a nightmare about Linked Open Data. Totally normal thing to have nightmares about.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everyone's favourite little guy (actually very large guy), the Volsinian cippus shaped like a warrior's head. Ink drawing by O.A. Danielsson, based on Perali. The inscription is CIE 5000 = ET Vs 1.113. The illustration board has yellowed from the envelope it's been kept in. #etruscan

Ink drawing of a carved stone head wearing a helmet, with an Etruscan inscription.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Conservation-wise, rubbings are a menace, but I also find them really pretty. This one (of CIE 4722 = ET Cl 1.459) is made by Hermann Degering, who was a librarian from Berlin who helped Carl Pauli with copying inscriptions during a trip to Italy in 1897.

Charcoal rubbing made on transparent paper of an Etruscan inscription.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Need to also share this! Another tracing, this one likely from December 1885 in Corneto (now Tarquinia). CIE 5507 = ET Ta 1.132. Danielsson usually used pencil for his tracings, but here, he's used crayon.

Tracing of an Etruscan inscription. The tracing is made with crayon. There are notes in ink in one corner.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The digitisation of Danielsson's squeezes are done, and we're on to the tracings! This is a tracing of CIE 1900 = ET Cl 1.1386, made on 9 March 1886.

Tracing of an Etruscan inscription on transparent paper, with several labels.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Finally - the library is back to normal! #carolinarediviva #uppsala

An open door, surrounded by bookshelves and blue and yellow balloons, with a sign saying “Läsesalar Reading rooms”. A neoclassical interior is visible through the door.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After a long summer, I am back at the library, the new library café has opened and on Monday, the refurbished reading rooms are finally opening. #uppsala #carolinarediviva

A table at a library tea room with a latte, a notebook and pen and a sunhat. A pair of crutches lean against the the table and a pair of fingerless gloves lies beside them.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I managed to break both the tibia and fibula of my left leg last week. I’ve had surgery and spent a few nights in hospital, but now I’ve been discharged. I’m being very well taken care of by my family. It’s going to be a long recovery but the doctors are very optimistic.

A person’s feet. The right is bare, the left has a big cast on it.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Hand-coloured photograph of a cinerary urn (CIE 2901 = ET Cl 1.2470), sent to Carl Pauli by his friend, collaborator and eventual adversary Wilhelm Deecke in 1881. Pauli's labels are visible on the mount. Preserved in Uppsala University Library. #etruscanepigraphy #etruscan #etruscan

Hand-coloured photograph of Etruscan cinerary urn. The lid has a male figure leaning back on his elbow. The urn has a relief of a battle scene. There is an Etruscan inscription of the edge of the urn.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

An early version of the illustration of the Laris Pulenas inscription for CIE. Made by one Thulin (still unidentified) for Olof August Danielsson. Preserved in the archive of O.A. Danielsson at Uppsala University Library. #etruscans #epigraphy #archives

Ink drawing of an Etruscan inscription. The inscription is found on the sarcophagus of Laris Pulenas from Tarquinia and is inscribed on a book-roll held by a carved figure on the sarcophagus lid.

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Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Hello everyone! It might take a bit of time for me to get the hang of this, but in the future there will be plenty of #Classics and #Etruscan -related stuff.

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