Elisabeth R. O’Connell

Research Curator

Late Antique Egypt

Department: Ancient Egypt and Sudan

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8311
Email: egyptian @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Elisabeth R. O’Connell is Research Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan. Her areas of expertise include the social history and material culture of Roman and Byzantine Egypt. Her work engages approaches to the integrated study of ancient texts and their archaeological contexts.

Current British Museum projects

Documentation of Byzantine settlement for The British Museum Epigraphic Expedition to Hagr Edfu

Previous British Museum projects

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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

2005–2006 Kress Fellowship in Egyptian Art and Architecture, American Research Center in Egypt

Publications

E. R. O’Connell, "Transforming Monumental Landscapes in Late Antique Egypt," in Journal of Early Christian Studies 15 (2007): 239–74

E. R. O'Connell, "Readers and Writers in Roman Tebtunis", http:tebtunis.berkeley.edu (last accessed 2007)

E. R. O’Connell, "Ethnic Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt," http:tebtunis.berkeley.edu (last accessed 2007)

E. R. O’Connell, "Recontextualizing Berkeley’s Tebtunis Papyri," in Proceedings of the XXIVth International Congress of Papyrology, Helsinki 1–7 August 2004, ed. J. Frösén, et al., 2:807-826, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 122 (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2007),

E. R. O’Connell, "Ostraca from Late Antique Western Thebes: Provenance and History of the Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University," in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 43 (2006): 113–37