Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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)