ISAW announces the publication of Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 (Amheida VIII)
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3: Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015 Seasons (Amheida VIII) by Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Giovanni R. Ruffini, and Günter Vittmann; with contributions from Paola Davoli and Anna L. Boozer.
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 is the latest monograph in the Amheida series. The Amheida project started in 2001 and since 2008 New York University has been the primary sponsoring institution. For more information about the Amheida Project, please follow this link.
The third volume of ostraka from the excavations conducted at the site of Amheida (known as Trimithis in the Roman period and Setwah in earlier times) contains the Greek texts from the 2014 and 2015 field seasons. In addition, this volume also includes editions of Demotic and Hieratic ostraka found between 2004 and 2015, as well as miscellaneous inscriptions and graffiti from the site and a small number of ostraka found in the excavations in Area 1. Finally, this volume offers the first detailed presentation of all ostraka that contain drawings and select pictorial graffiti.
The book will be a key resource for specialists interested in Roman and Late Antique Egypt, papyrology, Egyptology, ancient religion, economy, and literacy.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Rodney Ast is Academic Director in the Institute for Papyrology at Heidelberg University. His research interests include Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy, the administrative and social history of Greco-Roman Egypt, and Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade. He is co-director of excavations at Berenike on Egypt’s Red Sea coast.
Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is author, co-author, and editor of many books including Egypt in Late Antiquity and Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Clementia Caputo is a Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano-DABC and chief ceramologist at Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime (Fayyum), Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis), Umm al-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis), and Tuna el-Gebel (Middle Egypt). Her main area of research is the ceramic material culture of Roman and Byzantine Egypt.
Roberta Casagrande-Kim was the Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions and Gallery Curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. An archaeologist and a curator of ancient art, Dr. Casagrande-Kim has worked extensively in archaeological excavations in Italy, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey.
Giovanni R. Ruffini is Professor of History and Classical Studies at Fairfield University, where he directs the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program. His books include Medieval Nubia: A Social and Economic History (Oxford, 2012) and Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2018).
Günter Vittmann is Professor of Egyptology at Würzburg University. He is an internationally-recognized specialist in hieratic (particularly in “abnormal hieratic”) and demotic, and his research extends beyond philology to the relations of Ancient Egypt with its neighbors.
About ISAW Monographs
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3: Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015 Seasons (Amheida VIII) is the nineteenth volume to be published in the ISAW Monographs series, a joint publication project with NYU Press. ISAW Monographs publishes authoritative studies of new evidence and research into the texts, archaeology, art history, material culture, and history of the cultures and periods representing the core areas of study at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The topics and approaches of the volumes in this series reflect the intellectual mission of ISAW as a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education whose aim is to encourage the study of the economic, religious, political, and cultural connections between ancient civilizations, from the Western Mediterranean across the Near East and Central Asia, to China.
As with ISAW Papers, ISAW's born-digital journal, ISAW is committed to publishing all volumes of ISAW Monographs free and online for the interested public and scholarship community in a timely fashion. Currently, five volumes of ISAW Monographs are available free online via the ISAW Publications page.
Information about previous volumes, including how to order them in both print and online versions, is available via the ISAW Publications page and the NYU Press website. For information or questions about ISAW Monographs and ISAW's publishing projects, please email David M. Ratzan: david.ratzan at nyu.edu. To request review copies, please email Furqan Sayeed (mfs454 at nyu.edu)
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3
Texts Mainly from the 2014 and 2015 Seasons
(Amheida VIII)
By Rodney Ast, Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo,
Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Giovanni R. Ruffini, and Günter Vittmann
with contributions from Paola Davoli and Anna L. Boozer.
224 pages | 27 illustrations | 8.5 x 11.0 in.
$94.00 | 9781479832811
Publication date: October 7, 2025
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Contact: david.ratzan@nyu.edu