Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank

Maria Nilsson, Ph.D. (2011), is associate professor in Ancient History at Lund University, Director of the Gebel el-Silsila Project. She has published numerous unique studies on ancient graffiti, rock art and iconography, including The crown of Arsinoë II (Oxbow 2012).Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Ph.D. (2012), ELTE Budapest and EPHE Paris, is a researcher at the project of Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, University of Oxford. She has published Demotic, Greek and Coptic texts, including articles in the series Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava.John Ward is research assistant at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, co-Director of the Gebel el-Silsila Project. He specialises in Ancient Quarrying, including ‘Mallets, Chisels, Sledges and Boats: the Art of Quarrying at Gebel el-Silsila’ (2015).

• PrefaceList of TablesList of FiguresAbbreviations1 Introduction1 Gebel el-Silsila—the Site2 Brief Historical Outline3 Research History4 Main Objectives5 Methodology6 Sigla2 The Material1 Introduction2 Paleographic Commentary3 Onomastic and Prosopographic Commentary4 Dates, Professions, and Eeligious Functions5 General Commentary on the Chronology6 Abbreviations7 Singular Alphabetic Letters8 Monograms and Ligatures9 The Quandary of Literacy10 The Graffiti Dialogue3 The Northern Quarries1 Introduction2 Quarry 11 (Q11)3 Corpus4 Quarry 13 (Q13)5 The Inscriptions6 Corpus7 Quarry 14 (Q14)8 The Inscriptions9 Corpus10 Quarry 19 (Q19)11 The Inscriptions12 Corpus13 Rock Art Site 11 (RAS11)14 Corpus4 Q24—Tiberius’ Stables1 Introduction2 Tiberius’ Stables and Its Administration Building3 The Epigraphy4 Quarry Face ‘E’5 Corpus6 Quarry Face ‘TS’7 Corpus5 Q34—The Main Quarry1 Introduction2 Archaeological Overview3 The Epigraphy4 Contents of Texts5 Dedicators6 Name Variants and Scribes7 Dates, Professions, and Religious Functions8 Corpus6 The Southern Quarries1 Introduction2 Quarry 35 (Q35—‘the Situla Quarry’)3 Corpus4 Quarry 37 (Q37—‘the Naos Quarry’)5 The Epigraphy6 Corpus7 Quarry 40 (Q40 and ‘Commemoration Road’)8 CorpusAppendix 1: Quarry Faces Marked with Greek Inscriptions (Nos.)Appendix 2: Original PhotographsBibliographyIndices