Roger S Bagnall

Biographic Data

ID1047036
NAMERoger S Bagnall
GIVEN NAMESRoger S
FAMILY NAMEBagnall
SIGNATUREBAGNALL R S
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
ORCID0000-0002-9817-3326
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS109
TOTAL CITATIONS370
AUTHOR COUNT102
EDITOR COUNT7
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9

  • Managing the Economy of Roman and Late Antique Egypt

    Roger S BagnallARTICLEL’annuaire du Collège de France2026

  • Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt

    Open AccessJelle Bruning, W Graham Claytor et al.BOOKSlavery and Dependence in Ancient…2024

    Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of scholars spanning the full range of disciplines and languages involved, provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and themat…

  • Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya, Using Ostraca in the Ancient World

    Open AccessRoger S BagnallARTICLEAestimatio Sources and Studies in…2022

    This remarkable volume provides the richest introduction ever offered to one of the most widespread but understudied writing technologies of the ancient world. Like many such categories, ostraca are a somewhat fuzzy set, and the term “ostracon” is often used imprecisely. Properly speaking, the ostracon is a potsherd or, sometimes, a piece of stone, in a secondary use (i.e., not its original purpose) as a writing surface. But various other objects…

  • Egypt in Late Antiquity

    Roger S BagnallBOOKEgypt in Late Antiquity2021

  • Early Christian Books in Egypt

    Open AccessRoger S BagnallBOOKEarly Christian Books in Egypt2021

  • Three Christian Gravestones from the Siwa Oasis

    Abdel Aziz el-Demery, Roger S Bagnall et al.ARTICLEChronique d Egypte2021

  • The Great Oasis of Egypt

    Open AccessRoger S Bagnall, Gaëlle TalletBOOKGreat Oasis of Egypt2019

    The Great Oasis of Egypt provides the first full study of the Dakhla and Kharga Oases in antiquity, written by participants in several of the current archaeological projects in this region. The oases were closely tied to Egypt and to each other, but not always easy to control, and their agricultural productivity varied with climatic conditions. The book discusses the oases' geology, water resources, history, administration, economy, trade connect…

  • Great Oasis of Egypt

    Gaëlle Tallet, Roger S BagnallBOOKGreat Oasis of Egypt2019

  • Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History

    Roger S BagnallBOOKReading Papyri, Writing Ancient…2019

    Since its first publication in 1995, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History has proved to be an invaluable resource for students of the ancient world looking to integrate papyrological evidence into their research. In the quarter century since its publication, changes in the research environment have affected papyrology like other fields. Although the core philological methods of the field remain in place, the field has increasingly embraced lan…

  • Using Raman spectroscopy to estimate the dates of carbon-based inks from Ancient Egypt

    Open AccessSarah Goler, Alexis Hagadorn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage2019Cited by: 5References: 46

  • Christianity in the Smyrna Graffiti

    Roger S BagnallARTICLEEarly Christianity2018

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • Roman Studies and Digital Resources

    Open AccessRoger S Bagnall, Sebastian HeathARTICLEThe Journal of Roman Studies2018References: 21

    There is hardly any aspect of scholarly work and teaching in Roman Studies today not marked by digital technology. We assume that readers regularly access digital images of Roman material culture, use digitised corpora of primary sources in the original language or translation or consult online books and articles. The availability of digital resources on the internet is also a welcome enabler of ongoing public interest and even participation in t…

  • The Oasis Papers 6

    Roger S Bagnall, Paola Davoli et al.BOOKOasis Papers 62017

  • The Councillor and the Clerk

    Roger S BagnallARTICLETAPA2017Cited by: 1References: 4

    The Councillor and the Clerk:Class and Culture on a Roman Frontier Roger S. Bagnall we know the names of a lot of ordinary individuals who lived in the ancient Mediterranean world, probably well over a million of them.1 Most are literally ghosts: people whose gravestones have survived and of whom we usually know only the name, where they lived, some idea (however approximate) of when they died, and perhaps a few details like age at death and the …

  • New Evidence for the Roman Garrison of Trimithis

    Open AccessRodney Ast, Roger S BagnallARTICLETyche2016Cited by: 1

    In 2011 a Greek dipinto mentioning the “camp of Trimithis” was uncovered on a wall of a large bathhouse located at Trimithis (modern Amheida) in the Dakhla Oasis. It represents the first explicit textual evidence for the Roman garrison of Trimithis. This article publishes the dipinto and surveys additional references to the Roman military in texts from the site

  • Materializing Ancient Documents

    Roger S BagnallARTICLEDaedalus2016Cited by: 1

    Two materially oriented revolutions have transformed the study of ancient documents in recent decades: first, a new interest in the ancient production of written artifacts; and second, the concern with the archaeological contexts, and more particularly the taphonomy–that is, the processes at work in the burial–of those same objects. The first, largely driven by the availability of digital images, has given life to the study of ancient writing as …

  • Inscriptions from Tombs at Bir esh-Shaghala

    Raffaella Cribiore, Gunter Vittmann et al.ARTICLEChronique d Egypte2015

    Excavations during the past decade by the Supreme Council of Antiquities have uncovered a number of cemeteries belonging to the ancient city of Mut (Mothis in Greek), which was the capital of the Dakhleh Oasis. At one of these, Bir esh-Shaghala, these excavations have found several large mud-brick tombs which originally had pyramidal superstructures and subterranean burial chambers. The authors publish here, in advance of a full report on the sit…

  • Oasis Papers 6

    Colin A Hope, Paola Davoli et al.BOOKOasis Papers 62013

  • Family Papers from Second-Century A.D. Kellis

    Roger S Bagnall, Klaas A Worp et al.ARTICLEChronique d Egypte2011

    Edition of seven Greek 2nd-century C.E. papyri excavated at Ismant al-Kharab (Kellis). These documents (2 census declarations, 4 complete, respectively fragmentarily preserved contracts and 1 tax receipt) illustrate a relatively early phase of the occupation of the settlement. The census declarations suggest the existence of female professional spinners at Kellis

  • The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

    Roger S BagnallBOOKThe Oxford handbook of papyrology2011

    Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. This book provides an introduction to the world of these ancient documents and literary texts, ranging from the raw materials of writing to the languages used, from the history…

  • Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East

    Roger S BagnallBOOKEveryday Writing in the…2011Cited by: 1

    Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people—from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan—used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known eviden…

  • A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite Nome

    Roger S Bagnall, James Keenan et al.BOOKA sixth-century tax register from…2011Cited by: 1

  • The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

    Open AccessStefania De Vido, Claudia Antonetti et al.BOOKThe encyclopedia of ancient history2011Cited by: 26

    Herakleopolis Magna, the capital of the Herakleopolite nome, was an important town throughout the history of ancient Egypt

  • Archaeological Work on Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, 2000-2009

    Roger S Bagnall, Paola DavoliARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2011Cited by: 2References: 12

    If the past decade has not witnessed many great publicity coups for Egyptian archaeology of the period from Alexander to the Arab conquest, it has nonetheless been a period of striking developments, important discoveries, and significant change. We have been pleasantly surprised in compiling this newsletter by how many substantial site publications have appeared, sometimes for older excavations, sometimes for newer—the most extraordinary instance…

  • Papyrology

    Roger S BagnallBOOKThe Oxford handbook of Roman…2010