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Historian of ancient Rome and pre-Islamic Iran. Book (open-access!): www.ucpress.edu/books/the-arsacids-…

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 10, No. 3 (2026) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/10/3 @ucpress.bsky.social @kateantiquity.bsky.social @jakenabel.bsky.social @drewjakeprof.bsky.social
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Volume 10 Issue 3 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My latest at @hyperallergic.com looks at the new Homer papyrus on mummified remains from Oxyrhynchus—& what the press got wrong initially. Thanks to Celsiana Warwick, @robertamazza.bsky.social, @sentantiq.bsky.social & Leah Mascia (+ @christinajriggs.bsky.social & edits by @valentinadl.bsky.social).
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Archaeologists Discover Mummy Buried With Lines From Homer’s Iliad
Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.
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Women’s Classical Committee UK @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A new page for Annetta Alexandridis!
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A New Cambridge Element, _Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia_, by Rachel Mairs, is out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks: cup.org/4u3Ykaz
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Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
Cambridge Core - Classical Archaeology - Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Human: Poenitentia AI: Penis tentia
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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 😇
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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...
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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...
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Jake Nabel, "The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations" (U California Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
(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...
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Look what I got for Hanukkah @acbm.bsky.social!
The Pearlsong
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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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...
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The Pearlsong — Harvard University Press
The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...
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BiblioIranica @biblioiranica.info · 03/07/2025
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…
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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.
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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?...
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خلاصه فارسی کتابم، اشکانیانِ روم | Persian summary of my book, The Arsacids of Rome
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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 @beatricepestarino.bsky.social ‪
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Journal of Ancient History Volume 13 Issue 1
Volume 13, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Ancient History was published in 2025.
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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...
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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...
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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
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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. …
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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...
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Very useful new review essay of recent (~past ten years) bibliography on Greek and Roman slavery www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH OF ANCIENT SLAVERY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH OF ANCIENT SLAVERY
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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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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.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New issue of Classical Journal Vol. 120, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54292 @projectmuse.bsky.social @jakenabel.bsky.social
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Conference next week at Columbia: TOWARDS A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE ACHAIMENID EMPIRE ancient-mediterranean.columbia.edu/wp-content/u...
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Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857145...
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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...
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