Greek Personal Names in Egypt

Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change. The work explores naming practices and their intersection with the social and cultural history of Egypt over a long chronological span, foreign names, and cross-cultural exchanges. It also explores current research questions and future directions in onomastic studies in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. The papers offer a range of different perspectives and approaches in the field, with contributions by specialists from the fields of Greek Papyrology, Egyptology, Coptology and Ancient History.

Adrienn Almásy-Martin is currently a project curator at the British Museum and the lead researcher for the Egyptian phase of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, University of Oxford. She studied Egyptology and Classical Greek at ELTE, Budapest; she has a PhD in Egyptology at EPHE, Paris. Her main areas of research are in Demotic and Greek documentary and Demotic funerary texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods with a special interest in onomastic studies and language interaction.Yanne Broux is a senior research fellow at Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org) at the department of ancient history of KU Leuven. She studied Ancient History and Assyriology at KU Leuven and has a PhD in History at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on onomastics and identification in the ancient world, while occasionally becoming side-tracked by subjects such as land management in Roman Egypt or the students (and their names) of the Old University of Leuven. She coordinates TM People, the onomastic-prosopographic section of Trismegistos, and is responsible for the upkeep of its online environment.