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)

Preface
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations

1 Introduction
 1 Gebel el-Silsila—the Site
 2 Brief Historical Outline
 3 Research History
 4 Main Objectives
 5 Methodology
 6 Sigla

2 The Material
 1 Introduction
 2 Paleographic Commentary
 3 Onomastic and Prosopographic Commentary
 4 Dates, Professions, and Eeligious Functions
 5 General Commentary on the Chronology
 6 Abbreviations
 7 Singular Alphabetic Letters
 8 Monograms and Ligatures
 9 The Quandary of Literacy
 10 The Graffiti Dialogue

3 The Northern Quarries
 1 Introduction
 2 Quarry 11 (Q11)
 3 Corpus
 4 Quarry 13 (Q13)
 5 The Inscriptions
 6 Corpus
 7 Quarry 14 (Q14)
 8 The Inscriptions
 9 Corpus
 10 Quarry 19 (Q19)
 11 The Inscriptions
 12 Corpus
 13 Rock Art Site 11 (RAS11)
 14 Corpus

4 Q24—Tiberius’ Stables
 1 Introduction
 2 Tiberius’ Stables and Its Administration Building
 3 The Epigraphy
 4 Quarry Face ‘E’
 5 Corpus
 6 Quarry Face ‘TS’
 7 Corpus

5 Q34—The Main Quarry
 1 Introduction
 2 Archaeological Overview
 3 The Epigraphy
 4 Contents of Texts
 5 Dedicators
 6 Name Variants and Scribes
 7 Dates, Professions, and Religious Functions
 8 Corpus

6 The Southern Quarries
 1 Introduction
 2 Quarry 35 (Q35—‘the Situla Quarry’)
 3 Corpus
 4 Quarry 37 (Q37—‘the Naos Quarry’)
 5 The Epigraphy
 6 Corpus
 7 Quarry 40 (Q40 and ‘Commemoration Road’)
 8 Corpus

Appendix 1: Quarry Faces Marked with Greek Inscriptions (Nos.)
Appendix 2: Original Photographs
Bibliography
Indices