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Irene Soto Marín

@irenin.bsky.social
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Costa Rican Economic Historian of Roman and Late Roman Egypt Lover of running, reading, and birds

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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A really fun piece to write—amazing how much of what I explore in Sea of Treasures (@princetonupress.bsky.social) keeps cropping up today. Thanks to @sarahebond.bsky.social and the Pasts Imperfect team for everything they do!
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My book has a face! 🥹📚 So excited to finally share the cover of The Nile Flows with Gold. Forthcoming, Spring 2027 with Princeton University Press.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
After 700 Years Underwater Divers Recovered 80-Ton Blocks from the Long-Lost Lighthouse of Alexandria www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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After 700 Years Underwater Divers Recovered 80-Ton Blocks from the Long-Lost Lighthouse of Alexandria
Divered recover 22 colossal blocks from one of the ancient world's greatest marvels.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Germany and Japan losing on the same day is giving 1945 vibes 🙃
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Que orgullo latinoamericano!! Paraguay 🇵🇾!!!!
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🇪🇨!
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Manuscript submitted and gone into production with Princeton University Press! It’s been a loooooong road but looking forward to seeing this published in Spring 2027. Now onwards with book #2…!
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The highlight at the Museo de Navarra was La Mano de Irulegi, a bronze plaque in the shape of a hand containing 4 lines written in northeastern Iberian script, and the oldest text written in Basque. The text has been transliterated, but only 1 word has been identified.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
When it rains, it pours! Second publication day in a week! My article "Rethinking the Karanis Hoard Evidence" was published in the innovative volume Roman Coin Hoards Across Frontiers. Congratulations to the wonderful editors and the learned contributors! 1/2
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Starting my sabbatical on a great note! Roman Rural Archaeology: Society, Economy, and Culture ed. by Gijs Tol and Astrid Van Oyen is published! The volume looks amazing and includes my contribution on the Abundant Egyptian Countryside <3 Congrats to the contributors and the brilliant editors!
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—Absolutely Stunning!
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
From gladiators to grocery lists— the Roman world had it all. Come explore the ancient world with me this summer! 🏛️📜
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Andrew Connor @andrewconnor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have a papyrology joke bu[t ca. 15 ].
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Clearly there was no real barrier to what the Emperor could spend. In practice his financial position tended to coalesce with that of the state, even if Emperors varied in their willingness to exploit this fact.” Duncan-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire, page 43.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Should I start a new series titled “Sentences I like”? “The literary tradition is typically more concerned with moral stereotypes than with systematic description” Dunca-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire, pg 16.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/05/2025
Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma
ALT: A large, framed, yellowing document. Text reads: "Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original." Photo credit: Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New volume of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Vol. 61 (2024) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... @irenin.bsky.social @cbzeichmann.bsky.social @richardbott.bsky.social
old journal cover
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Tax and tax evasion! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/s...
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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.
A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves.
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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
occasionally in the Roman world women acted to sponsor local coinage, as here on a coin of Eumenea in Phrygia, struck by a high priestess named Bassa, daughter of Kleon. The obverse of the coin shows a bust of Agrippina II and the reverse shows the goddess Cybele. rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3151
Bass coin showing a bust of Agrippina surrounded by a legend in Greek, and Cybele seated left on the reverse,
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Pretty cool find out of Oxy! news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...
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Rare Gold Tongues Found in Egyptian Burial Chamber | Artnet News
A Spanish-Egyptian team of archaeologists has found a three-chamber burial site with fresh wall paintings, amulets, and golden tongues.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Finally published in BASP 2024! This papyrological edition and commentary took a long time and a lot of work. I hope I did some justice to this important official document, which states the total size of cultivated land for the Oxyrhynchite nome.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
On December 1st, 1948 the Costa Rican government abolished the army. “Dichosa la madre costarricense que sabe que su hijo al nacer jamás será soldado”
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Taking a break from academic life to celebrate my brother Andrés who was nominated for a Latin Grammy! Proud Costa Ricans :)
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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
my collection of about 14,000 photos (and growing) of ancient Mediterranean (broadly construed) archaeological subjects with Creative Commons license available here: www.flickr.com/photos/dandi...
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
So excited to speak with Harvard’s Econ Historians today!
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Today’s topic in Roman Egypt: “Class and Female Economic Performance in Roman Egypt: Obstacles and Resilience”
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
I love few things more than a good Roman-period Bes.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
About 3,600 Roman coins discovered with metal detector in Limburg | NL Times - nltimes.nl/2024/09/21/3...
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About 3,600 Roman coins discovered with metal detector in Limburg
Some 3,600 Roman coins have been found in Limburg, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands confirmed after reports by regional broadcaster L1. According to a spokesperson, these are mainly bro...
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
So many good objects at the Florence Archaeological Museum! The numismatic and textile collection alone were outstanding; I have all these ideas for classes etc. bustling in my head. Academia is hard so these little research and conference trips are good for the renewal of purpose and soul 🤗
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
A package full of econ/numismatic offprints arrived from doktorvater. I feel like I am back in grad school with a reading list 📜📝🪙💰
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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
a bone gaming piece or 'tessera' reading PRANDIVM (late breakfast/lunch) on one side and with the number six (VI) on the other, now in the Museum August Kestner. Am taking this as a sign that its time to eat lunch! nds.museum-digital.de/object/5493
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
One of my favorite things from Raffaella’s library. A Location-List of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri 📜
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
First day of school! Lovely weather :) Nice to see so many happy faces
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Preparing my first lecture for Roman Egypt tomorrow! Below, a 2nd-century CE statue of Hermanoubis, a fusion of Hermes psychopompos and Anubis. The head is adorned w/ a Kalathos and he’s carrying a palm frond in his left hand. Pic from my visit to the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria this summer.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
What a momentous day!! I’ve been working on this papyrus for longer than anything in my academic career, including my dissertation and book project. I still cannot believe the awaited proofs are finally here! 📜🫒👨🏽‍🌾 Coming soon in the next Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists!
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Campus looking pretty today!
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Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Proofs day! This one took a very long time to come to fruition, and I'm so excited to see it out in the world later this year in Ancient Society. For those interested in questions of standardization, infrastructure, and the intersections between the two.
"Public Granaries and Private Transactions: Infrastructure and Standardization" proofs page
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Here I am, laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
My class on Roman Egypt is going to benefit SO much from my recent trip to Alexandria. The renovated Graeco-Roman Museum was nothing short of pure magic.
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Giving this app another go! Excited to share some class content on Roman Egypt and Fashion this semester :)
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