Notes on Contributors
† Chris Bennett (1953–2014) was a freelance consultant whose chief technical work after 2001 was as a senior designer and architect of security systems for satellite and cable TV in the US and the UK. As a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, he published in the field of Egyptian, Ptolemaic, Roman and Indian chronology.
Henry P. Colburn is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on cross-cultural interaction in the eastern Mediterranean, and he is now completing a book on the archaeology of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule there.
Jennifer A. Cromwell is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies in the University of Copenhagen. Her most recent book is Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt (Ann Arbor, 2017).
Thomas Landvatter is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA. His research concerns mortuary behaviour, social identity, and the material effects of cross-cultural interaction and imperialism in the Ancient Mediterranean, with a particular focus on Ptolemaic Egypt and the wider Hellenistic Near East.
Paul McKechnie is Associate Professor (CoRE) in Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University.
Martina Minas-Nerpel is Professor of Egyptology at Swansea University.
Boyo G. Ockinga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.
Dorothy J. Thompson is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, where she used to direct studies in Classics.