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Susan Fogarty

University College London, Greek and Latin, Department Member

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Greek Papyrology, Greek Documentary Papyrology, Greek Papyri, Latin and Greek, Roman History, Ptolemaic Egyptian History, and 9 moreSeleucid Empire, Greek Paleography, Karanis, Seleucid chronology, Papyrology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Roman Egypt, Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, and Byzantine Egyptedit
About:
Currently Honorary Research Fellow, Greek and Latin Dept., University College London; former Papyrologist on the gra... moreCurrently Honorary Research Fellow, Greek and Latin Dept., University College London; former Papyrologist on the grammateus project at the Université de Genève researching the architecture of Greek documentary papyri 2019-2023; Associate Fellow Higher Education Academy. PhD Greek Papyrology 2016, UCL. Documentary papyri of Roman and Byzantine Egypt; also currently researching the lives and works of papyrologists of the early 20th century.edit
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BL Papyrus 2288. The document records a loan issued by a σημειοφόρος, the military rank of standard-bearer, in Latin signifer.

Publication Date: 2024

Publication Name: Tyche 37 2022

Research Interests:
Greek Papyrology

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An edition of letters concerning Dr. Frieda Gossmann, the niece of O.
Gradenwitz, from J. de M. Johnson, and Lucy Hunt to H.I. Bell, and a single letter from Gossmann to Bell. Also included is correspondence from Dr. Erna Hollitscher to Gossmann and to Lucy Hunt, all of which highlight the struggles confronting a German refugee in Britain during the Second World War.

Publication Date: 2023

Publication Name: Quaderni di Storia

Research Interests:
History of Papyrology

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This fragment of papyrus provides a new attestation of a red-ink abstract from the register of ephebes declared in the city of Antinoopolis. In addition to new names of Antinoites, its interest lies in the fact that
it is the first explicit case where the abstract was issued in the same year as the registration was made; in other known cases, the abstract may have been produced later. A consolidated list of the tribes and demes
of Antinoopolis is provided.

Publication Date: 2022

Publication Name: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 224

Research Interests:
Greek Papyrology

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This paper aims to make a clear distinction between model
document, sample formulary, draft, and form. pp.259-274

Publication Date: 2022

Publication Name: BASP 59

Research Interests:
Greek Papyrology

Documentary texts concerning slaves

Publication Date: 2021

Publication Name: OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI VOLUME LXXXVI

Research Interests:
Roman Egypt, Greek Papyri, Oxyrhynchus, and Roman Slavery

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The grammateus project aims to produce a typology of Greek documentary papyri and to develop a digital instrument which will allow the display and comparison of models of different document types. Where previous typologies have concentrated solely on content, the grammateus project will take a more holistic approach, where the physical properties of the papyrus will be considered alongside the layout and content, allowing us to assess the relationship between them.

Publisher: Zenodo

Publication Date: Feb 11, 2020

5518: Contract of Marriage; 5526 Letter Requesting an Introduction

Publication Date: 2020

Publication Name: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXV (eds. N. Gonis, P. J. Parsons, and W. B. Henry; London: Egypt Exploration Society)

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Publication Date: 2019

Publication Name: Analecta Papyrologica XXXI

Research Interests:
History of Papyrology

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grammateus is a research environment that offers a wide and analytic coverage of attested types of Greek documentary papyri from Egypt. This is precisely typology, by which we mean a study of the defining criteria that allowed scribes to give to the documents they were preparing a distinctive appearance corresponding to the intended use. Such criteria were not made explicit by the scribes themselves, or through an ancient handbook that would have spelt out the rules to be followed. Nonetheless, a certain consistency in the production of documents indicates that some rules were indeed transmitted along a chain of scribes who were active in Egypt from the late fourth century BCE till the seventh century CE, with some variation contingent on time and the place of writing.

grammateus is produced by a team of researchers based at the University of Geneva and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The web platform is in Open Access, free of charge. The underlying data is also made available to other researchers in a dedicated repository.

Our work relies on the use of papyri.info, a portal that gathers metadata from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and Trismegistos (TM). Finally, we draw extensively on secondary literature, such as monographs and articles that contain information or elaboration on the typology of papyri. This material is referenced in our bibliography. Whenever possible, we link our own platform to other relevant databases and printed literature.

Source: Bonagura, G., Chang, R-L., Ferretti, L., Fogarty, S., Nury, E., and Schubert, P. 2023. General Introduction. grammateus project. https://grammateus.unige.ch/introduction/general. (Accessed: 2023, December 15).