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The ISAW Library is a research library that supports the core academic areas represented by the ISAW faculty and students, as well as the interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approach to the ancient world that lies at the center of ISAW's intellectual mission
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O.Trim 3 was published this fall by @isawlibrary.bsky.social and @nyupress.bsky.social , incl Egyptian, Greek, and pictorial ostraca (see O.Trim 3.1062 and 3.1065.) Of course, we hope to find more ostraca this season …and, dear Thoth, 1-2 papyri? 🙏#amheida2026 #papyrology #ancientegypt #dakhlaoasis
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 AM
O.Trim 3 was published this fall by @isawlibrary.bsky.social and @nyupress.bsky.social , incl Egyptian, Greek, and pictorial ostraca (see O.Trim 3.1062 and 3.1065.) Of course, we hope to find more ostraca this season …and, dear Thoth, 1-2 papyri? 🙏#amheida2026 #papyrology #ancientegypt #dakhlaoasis
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Happy New Year from the edge of the Roman world! Here’s recently published note on a sandstone block. Lines 2-4 speak about 13 linens as “kalandari(k)a,” which were gifts or new year’s bonuses, usually for officials. Today this καλανδρικόν is for you! See O.Trim 3.8 for more. #amheida2026
January 2, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Happy New Year from the edge of the Roman world! Here’s recently published note on a sandstone block. Lines 2-4 speak about 13 linens as “kalandari(k)a,” which were gifts or new year’s bonuses, usually for officials. Today this καλανδρικόν is for you! See O.Trim 3.8 for more. #amheida2026
Be sure to check out ISAW Papers, open-content scholarly journal that publishes article-length works on any topic within the scope of ISAW's scholarly research. All works are distributed under a Creative Commons-Attribution license. Here’s the most contribution!
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The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia: Papers Relating to a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at the University of Iowa
Copyright ©2025 Paul Dilley and Katherine Tachau; distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) license.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Be sure to check out ISAW Papers, open-content scholarly journal that publishes article-length works on any topic within the scope of ISAW's scholarly research. All works are distributed under a Creative Commons-Attribution license. Here’s the most contribution!
dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...
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The ISAW library and @nyupress.bsky.social are partners in publishing the ISAW Monographs series. Our most recent volume appeared this fall: Ostraka from Trimithis, vol. 3, which includes most of the non-Greek ostraca found at Amheida. More info here: isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida...
December 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The ISAW library and @nyupress.bsky.social are partners in publishing the ISAW Monographs series. Our most recent volume appeared this fall: Ostraka from Trimithis, vol. 3, which includes most of the non-Greek ostraca found at Amheida. More info here: isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida...
The ISAW library has been building internships over the past two years, largely thanks to the work of Patrick Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social Here’s a recent report from several interns working on the Representing Women Authorship in the Latin Treebanks (RWALT) project:
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ISAW Library Internship Report: Expanding a Linguistic Dataset of Women-authored Latin
A guest post by Margaret Ratzan, Willa Romer-Mack, and Lily Hegener, with an introduction by Associate Research Scholar Patrick J. Burns, reporting on Spring 2025 internships in the ISAW Library worki...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The ISAW library has been building internships over the past two years, largely thanks to the work of Patrick Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social Here’s a recent report from several interns working on the Representing Women Authorship in the Latin Treebanks (RWALT) project:
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isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
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Building Bridges Across the Caucasus
How the Digital South Caucasus Collection Came to Life
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June 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Excellent overview of a project I've been watching grow for several years now at the ISAW Library (@isawlibrary.bsky.social) - the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an international collaboration to distribute open-access archaeological publications:
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Building Bridges Across the Caucasus
How the Digital South Caucasus Collection Came to Life
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June 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Excellent overview of a project I've been watching grow for several years now at the ISAW Library (@isawlibrary.bsky.social) - the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an international collaboration to distribute open-access archaeological publications:
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Great story about the Digital South Caucasus Collection from the library of @isawnyu.bsky.social. Thanks, Weiwei and @nyulibraries.bsky.social! medium.com/@nyulibrarie... #digitallibraries
Building Bridges Across the Caucasus
How the Digital South Caucasus Collection Came to Life
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June 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Great story about the Digital South Caucasus Collection from the library of @isawnyu.bsky.social. Thanks, Weiwei and @nyulibraries.bsky.social! medium.com/@nyulibrarie... #digitallibraries
Tomorrow May 6 the ISAW library welcomes VRS Alum Maria Doerfler (Yale) back to present material from her forthcoming book with CUP, *Death and Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Social Identity and Emotional Communities.* We hope to see you here at ISAW at 5:30!
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Wealth and Death in Late Antique Syria
Maria Doerfler (Yale University; ISAW Visiting Research Scholar 2014-15) returns to ISAW to discuss wealth and death in late antique Syria, part of her forthcoming monograph from the Cambridge Univers...
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May 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Tomorrow May 6 the ISAW library welcomes VRS Alum Maria Doerfler (Yale) back to present material from her forthcoming book with CUP, *Death and Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Social Identity and Emotional Communities.* We hope to see you here at ISAW at 5:30!
isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl...
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*NEW* ISAW Library Blog Post: ISAW Library hosts 2025 NY Metro Papyrology Workshop. Thanks to all who attended! We are looking forward to new collaborations next year and hopefully our third meeting in 2026! @isawnyu.bsky.social #papyrology isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
ISAW Library hosts 2025 New York Metro Papyrology Workshop
The ISAW Library hosted the 2025 New York Metro Papyrology Workshop on April 11, 2025.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
*NEW* ISAW Library Blog Post: ISAW Library hosts 2025 NY Metro Papyrology Workshop. Thanks to all who attended! We are looking forward to new collaborations next year and hopefully our third meeting in 2026! @isawnyu.bsky.social #papyrology isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
*NEW* ISAW blog post: ISAW Library hosted the 2025 New York Classical Club undergrad and graduate student Greek and Latin Recitation Contest on April 5, 2025. #ancientGreek #Latin #classics #libraries isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
ISAW Library hosts the New York Classical Club Greek and Latin Recitation Contest
The ISAW Library hosted the New York Classical Club undergraduate and graduate student Greek and Latin recitation contest on April 5, 2025.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
*NEW* ISAW blog post: ISAW Library hosted the 2025 New York Classical Club undergrad and graduate student Greek and Latin Recitation Contest on April 5, 2025. #ancientGreek #Latin #classics #libraries isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
*NEW* ISAW Library internship and volunteer opportunities. We have been experimenting with this for five years and excited to see it gel into a formal program of involving young people in classics and humanistic research! Thanks, @diyclassics.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/inte... #classics #dh
Internships and volunteer opportunities
Information about internships and other volunteer opportunities in the Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
*NEW* ISAW Library internship and volunteer opportunities. We have been experimenting with this for five years and excited to see it gel into a formal program of involving young people in classics and humanistic research! Thanks, @diyclassics.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/inte... #classics #dh
ISAW library announces the beta of the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an open access digital library of historical and archaeological scholarship related to the ancient South Caucasus (dscc.its.nyu.edu). Read more here: isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... @isawnyu.bsky.social #archaeology #libraries
ISAW Library Announces the launch of the Digital South Caucasus Collection
The Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World announces the beta release of the Digital South Caucasus Collection. The Digital South Caucasus Collection preserves and provides open a...
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March 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
ISAW library announces the beta of the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an open access digital library of historical and archaeological scholarship related to the ancient South Caucasus (dscc.its.nyu.edu). Read more here: isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... @isawnyu.bsky.social #archaeology #libraries
ISAW LIBRARY EVENT: May 6. Maria Doerfler (Yale; ISAW VRS 2014/15) returns to give us a sneak preview of her forthcoming book from the Cambridge University Press with a lecture on “Wealth and Death in Late Antique Syria.” Registration details below. isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl... @isawnyu.bsky.social
Wealth and Death in Late Antique Syria
Maria Doerfler (Yale University; ISAW Visiting Research Scholar 2014-15) returns to ISAW to discuss wealth and dealt in late antique Syria, part of her forthcoming monograph from the Cambridge Univers...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
ISAW LIBRARY EVENT: May 6. Maria Doerfler (Yale; ISAW VRS 2014/15) returns to give us a sneak preview of her forthcoming book from the Cambridge University Press with a lecture on “Wealth and Death in Late Antique Syria.” Registration details below. isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl... @isawnyu.bsky.social
March 12, 5:30 @isawnyu.bsky.social (15 E84th St): Sarah Bond on her new book Strike from the @yalepress.bsky.social www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – March 12
A classics professor discusses the history of labor conflict in Ancient Rome at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
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March 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
March 12, 5:30 @isawnyu.bsky.social (15 E84th St): Sarah Bond on her new book Strike from the @yalepress.bsky.social www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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New issue of Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 32, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New issue of Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 32, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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The passing of Prof Bezalel Porten (1931-2025) | H-Net
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20060930/passing-prof-bezalel-porten-1931-2025
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February 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The passing of Prof Bezalel Porten (1931-2025) | H-Net
ISAW Library Book Talk: Sarah Bond (Univ. of Iowa) discusses her new book *Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire* March 12 @5:30, ISAW lecture Hall. See link for registration and more information. isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl...
ISAW Library Events: Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
This lecture is the third in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. ...
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February 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
ISAW Library Book Talk: Sarah Bond (Univ. of Iowa) discusses her new book *Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire* March 12 @5:30, ISAW lecture Hall. See link for registration and more information. isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl...
ISAW Monographs: *NEW Review*: A. Marton on A. Kotsonas, The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII, Vols. 1-2 (LASA 348-349) #BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.02...
February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ISAW Monographs: *NEW Review*: A. Marton on A. Kotsonas, The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII, Vols. 1-2 (LASA 348-349) #BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.02...
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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
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New issue of Journal for the History of Astronomy Vol. 56, No.1 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jhaa/56/1
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New issue of Journal for the History of Astronomy Vol. 56, No.1 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jhaa/56/1
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Scribes and Language Use in the Graeco-Roman World edition.fi/societasscie... #openaccess Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum Vol. 147 (2024)
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Scribes and Language Use in the Graeco-Roman World edition.fi/societasscie... #openaccess Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum Vol. 147 (2024)
*NEW blog post* The ISAW library announces the deposit of the papers of the NY Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with NYU Libraries. #AIA #NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
NYU Special Collections accessions the archive of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
In October 2024, the ISAW Library assisted NYU Special Collections in accession the archive of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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February 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
*NEW blog post* The ISAW library announces the deposit of the papers of the NY Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with NYU Libraries. #AIA #NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
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New volume of of Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 69 (2024) www.jstor.org/stable/e2734... #openaccess @jstor.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
New volume of of Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 69 (2024) www.jstor.org/stable/e2734... #openaccess @jstor.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social
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New issue of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures No. 12 (2024): riviste.unimi.it/index.php/in... The Search for Books in Uncharted Territory, c. 800–1500 #openaccess @jkeskiah.bsky.social @larsbojemortensen.bsky.social @pieterbeullens.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New issue of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures No. 12 (2024): riviste.unimi.it/index.php/in... The Search for Books in Uncharted Territory, c. 800–1500 #openaccess @jkeskiah.bsky.social @larsbojemortensen.bsky.social @pieterbeullens.bsky.social