MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ANCIENT CULTURES ......Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project team at Dra Abu el-Naga, which undertook epigraphic collation and conservation in Theban Tomb

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MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ANCIENT CULTURES RESEARCH CENTRE

(ACRC)

PROGRESS REPORT 2010

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MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

ANCIENT CULTURES RESEARCH CENTRE

incorporating the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre

and the Australian Centre for Egyptology

Director: Professor Naguib Kanawati

Deputy Directors: Professors Alanna Nobbs and Sam Lieu

www.acrc.mq.edu.au [email protected]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ACRC RESEARCH PROGRAM, 1 OCTOBER 2009 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 4 2. PROGRESS AGAINST OBJECTIVES AND AGREED KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 6 3. PROPOSED ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMING 12 MONTHS, AND RELATED KPIS 9 4. FINANCE AND BUDGET 11 5. CENTRE MEMBERSHIP, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AND ADVISORY BOARD 12 6. EXTERNAL FUNDING APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN 2010 14 7. NEW INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL GRANTS SECURED, OCTOBER 2009 – SEPTEMBER 2010 15 8. CENTRE PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER OUTPUTS , OCTOBER

2009 – SEPTEMBER 2010 16 9. HDR STUDENTS DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACRC 22 APPENDIX 1: FURTHER DETAIL ON PROJECTS AND RESEARCH TEAMS 31

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1. ACRC RESEARCH PROGRAM, 1 OCTOBER 2009 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 Research in the ACRC, which operated for the second year as an MQRC in 2010, is advanced through a series of research programs, which act as collaborative foci for the related projects that sit within them (cf. www.acrc.mq.edu.au/research; titles of programs are signaled below in BOLD SMALL CAPS; project titles are in italics). Further detail on the some of the projects discussed here and researchers participating in them may be found in Appendix 1, to which cross-references are given below.

EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT: Eight teams worked at various sites during late 2009 and 2010. During November-December, 2009 Kanawati and Woods excavated the cemetery of Meir in

Upper Egypt, where the tomb of a high official named Hepi-kem was discovered (App. 1, 1). In January-February, as part of the final season of the ARC-funded project Enduring is the Perfection, in January 2010 Kanawati and Woods conducted the last season of fieldwork at Saqqara. The work concentrated on the recording of the tomb of Nefer and Ka-hay, one of the best-preserved tombs in the Wenis Cemetery. As part of the same project, in January and February 2010 Ockinga led a team recording the New Kingdom levels of the cemetery at Saqqara. Although Christiana Köhler took up a position at the University of Vienna in late 2009, Macquarie maintains an association with the site under excavation at Helwan, and Macquarie students participated in the excavation season at the site in January and February 2010, again funded under the ARC project Enduring is the Perfection.

Following a survey in 2009 at Beni Hassan, a concession for the site was granted by the Supreme Council of Antiquities to Kanawati and Woods; in June-July, 2010 the first fieldwork season was conducted in the tomb of Khnum-hotep II. Beth Thompson led further surveys in Jan.-Feb. 2010 at the Old Kingdom cemetery at Tehna. In December 2009 and January 2010, Ockinga led the Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project team at Dra Abu el-Naga, which undertook epigraphic collation and conservation in Theban Tomb 147 (Neferrenpet), and epigraphic recording in Theban Tomb 233; in addition to working in 233, Choat also worked on textual artifacts from TT 233 in the Gurnah magazine (App. 1, 7). With the assistance of MQRDG funding, Parry and Choat surveyed the Western escarpment at Sohag in January 2010 as part of the project Monks in the Pharaohs’ Tombs, locating several hitherto undocumented monastic settlements (App. 1, 6). Tristant continued his work with the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo during May-June at Abou Roach and in the Eastern Desert in the Wadi ‘Araba.

THE MAINTENANCE OF CULTURAL TRADITION IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: Kanawati and Woods worked at Beni Hassan and Meir (see above), with internal funding (with L. Evans and Gore) for the projects Civil War and its Aftermath: Interpreting the Egyptian Middle Kingdom Art and Inscriptions in the Tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hassan and Between two peaks: Tracing Egypt’s cultural transition from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom at Meir.

CULTURAL EXCHANGE ALONG THE SILK ROAD: Lieu and Mikkelsen, along with local associates and international collaborators, continued work on the Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum (CFM) (App. 1, 2). The final manuscript of a CFM Subsidia 6, Greek and Latin Sources on Manichaean Cosmogony (trans. G. Fox and J. Sheldon with commentary by Lieu) was submitted to the publishers. Successful applications for funding for the project China and the Ancient Mediterranean World (App. 1, 3) were made to the ARC (Lieu, Mikkelsen, with local and international collaborators) and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Mikkelsen). John Sheldon’s volume of Texts of Greek and Latin Authors on the Far East I. Texts and Translations was sent to the publishers and will appear in late 2010 or early 2011.

Mikkelsen continued work on Manichaean hymns and prayers in Chinese translation: an investigation of the gāthās in the Dunhuang Hymn-scroll, funded during 2010 on a MQNS won in 2009. Chan initiated the project Early Chinese Thought in the Newly Discovered Ancient Bamboo

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Manuscripts, for which she secured MQRDG funding (2010–2012), and continued work on her Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation-funded project Translation and Interpretation of the Confucian Texts in the Excavated 4th Century BCE Guodian Chu Bamboo Slips from China.

LANGUAGE, SCRIPT, AND ACCULTURATION IN GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT: Evans won ARC-funding for a major new project, ‘Words from the Sand: A Lexical Analysis of Early Greek Papyri from Egypt’ (with J. Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University, and J. Aitken, Cambridge University). This project was officially launched on 8 April 2010, during a visit to Macquarie by Aitken. As part of the ARC-funded project Communication networks in Upper Egyptian monastic communities Choat worked on texts in Theban Tomb 233 in Luxor December 2009, while Heike Behlmer (PI) and Matt Underwood (RA) worked on texts in Theban Tomb 95 in Luxor on two occasions during 2010. Choat also continued work on a new research arc on Seeking the Bilingual Scribe in Late Antique Egypt (MQNS-funded, 2009-2010), preparing for an ARC application on the theme in 2011.

THE MAKINGS OF THE MODERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD: Dzino initiated his ARC (APD) funded project Ancient and Medieval Identity-shifts and the Construction of Identities in Post-Yugoslav Space. With RA Duncan Keenan-Jones, Lieu continued work on satellite and electronic mapping of ancient Gallipoli for the project Gallipoli before Gallipoli (App. 1, 5). Beness and Hillard continued work on the Macquarie Dictionary of Roman Social and Political Biography.

ANIMALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: L. Evans continued work on her MQRF project The ancient Egyptians’ atypical relationship with invertebrates. In 2010 the project focused on data collection and, in particular, a reassessment of past scholarship on the representation of invertebrate species in ancient Egyptian art.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: Hillard and Beness continued work on the Ancient Torone Underwater Investigation, publishing three articles on the project and preparing for an ARC application ion the project in 2011. As part of her MQRF project Beyond the city walls: the landscapes of Aquileia, Traviglia surveyed outside the city walls at Aquileia. Sheedy worked on Delos with two architects and an epigrapher.

THE MACQUARIE PAPYRUS PROJECT: Work continued on the first two volumes of the series P. Macquarie: volume 1 (ed. Choat and I. Gardner, University of Sydney) is almost ready to be sent to the publishers. Two Centre members (Choat and Evans) and 3 of the HDR students presented papers at the 26th International Congress of Papyrology in Geneva in August 2010. FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES AND ANCIENT HISTORY: Gore and Choat were part of a team that successfully won funding for a luminescence dating facility now based at Macquarie; further funding for the facility was secured with an RIBG application. Traviglia’s MQRF project Beyond the city walls: the landscapes of Aquileia offers many opportunities for future developments in this area.

THE EARLY CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH WORLD IN ITS GRAECO-ROMAN CONTEXT: Work by Nobbs, Choat, and associated researchers continued on the project Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt.

As well as Centre members presenting papers and local and international meetings and within Macquarie, the Centre also held a number of colloquia and conferences during the year (details in 7e).

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2. PROGRESS AGAINST OBJECTIVES AND AGREED KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

ACRC KPIs (reproduced from MQRC Application)

1. Publications a. 16 A1/ B1 / C1 outputs in ERA highly ranked journals and publishers b. Maintain research active status of Centre Members as defined by MQ Research Office

2. Peer Recognition a. Track academic impact of output via citations, to be measured (in the absence of

comprehensive academic citation sources) via data recorded by the MQACRC b. 1 invitation to present keynote or panel addresses at a major international forum c. 1 invitation to convene a panel / section / program unit at a major international conference

3. Education, Training, and Career articulation a. Maintain at least 45 HDR students under the supervision of Centre members b. Attract 5 new HDR students to work in the Centre c. 2 HDR completions d. Secure funding for at least one post-doctoral short-term fellowship for thesis publication

i. 5 year KPI: Attract and secure at least 1 junior post-doc (ARC, APD, MQRF) every two years

4. International / National Collaboration and Cooperative Arrangements a. Maintain 5 international or national research collaborations

i. 5 year KPI: 3 new collaborations within the first 5 years of the Centre b. 3 reciprocal visits between Centre members and their counterparts at overseas institutions c. 5 papers presented by Centre members at overseas conferences d. Announce and begin organisation for 1 international conference at Macquarie

i. 5 Year KPI: Host 1 major international conference every 3 years

5. External Financial Support a. Apply for and attract at least 1 external competitive grant, and at least $30,000 in internal

grants annually (as seed projects for external grant applications) b. Increase financial support from private sectors

i. 5 year KPI: Increase both application and success rates for competitive research grants for MQACRC members

6. Marketing of MQACRC Activities and Public Impact a. Increase media coverage of MQACRC projects b. Create an MQACRC website projecting Macquarie’s image and attracting web-traffic c. Institute a seminar series to promote the Centre and attract potential external collaborators

7. Management Effectiveness a. Appoint Centre Director, Executive, and Advisory board b. Develop effective pathways for new members to join the Centre, including mentoring, grant-

writing training and support, and inclusion in collaborative research projects c. Induct 2 new members who meet MQACRC entrance criteria into the Centre d. Ensure the maintenance of synergy between Research Centre, Faculty Research Plan, and

MQ strategic goals i. 5 Year KPI: Successfully maintain initial 5-year budget and income stream to support all

MQACRC grant projects and activities ii. 5 year KPI: Prepare for benchmarking against Centre for Archaeology & Ancient History

(Monash University), Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York), Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford), and Oriental Institute (Chicago)

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Progress against these KPIS was as follows: 1. Publications

(a) Members of the centre published 66 DEST proxy outputs during the period January –October 2010 (cf. 8, below).

(b) All Centre Members maintained research active status as defined by Macquarie University Research Office.

2. Peer Recognition (a) A trial method of recording citation data for ACRC members was trialed was not

considered cost-effective, and the Executive encouraged Centre members to keep track of citations of their own work.

(b) A number of centre staff gave invited lectures overseas (see 8b, c). (c) Lieu was appointed Walker Ames Visiting Professorship at University of Washington at

Seattle in April. (d) ACRC members participated in the ARC ERA exercise, with the aim of contributing to a

successful performance by Macquarie in HCA cluster, especially within the FoR codes 2101 (Archaeology), 2103 (Historical Studies) and 2204 (Religion and Religious Studies).

3. Education, Training, and Career articulation (a) The total number of HDR students supervised by ACRC members at the time of the report

was 105 (see 8b). (b) This included 33 candidates who commenced Higher Degree Research in the Centre in

2009 (see 8a) (c) 7 ACRC HDR candidates completed during 2010 (listed below at 8c). (d) The ACRC or candidates associated with it attracted the following funding:

(i) Funding for travelling fellowships for HDR candidates was secured from the Society for the Study of Early Christianity and Tyndale House; and from Mrs Janet Gale and the estate of Dr Bill Gale, who funded a 9-month scholarship to the British School at Rome and two Travelling Fellowships in Graeco-Roman History.

(ii) External funding ($25000) was secured from Mrs Valerie Rundle which enabled a competitive short-term fellowship for thesis publication.

(iv) External funding ($21000) was secured from Mr Bryce Courtney which enabled a competitive short-term fellowship for HDR Thesis completion.

(v) Via University and Faculty funding, and donations, 2 postdoctoral fellows in the field of Early Christianity were appointed in July 2010 to three-year fellowships (Dr Brent Nongbri, PhD Yale 2008; Dr Cavan Concannon, PhD Harvard 2010). A Foundation to raise money for a perpetual fellowship in the field was launched.

(vi) A candidate (Dr Danijel Dzino) sponsored by an ACRC member (Gillett) won an APD ARC fellowship and began working in the Centre in 2010.

(vii) A candidate (Dr Ariana Trevalia) sponsored by an ACRC member (Hillard) won an MQRF fellowship and began working in the Centre in 2010.

4. International / National Collaboration and Cooperative Arrangements (a) The existing international and national research collaborations were maintained, including

e.g, those of Choat with I. Gardner (USyd) and H. Behlmer (Göttingen). Two new major international collaborations were inaugurated:

(i) T. Evans, along with J. Lee (Honorary Senior Research fellow) established a new collaboration with J. Aitken (Cambridge University), in the project Words from the sand: A lexical analysis of early Greek papyri from Egypt, for which ARC funding was obtained for 2010–2014.

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(ii) Lieu and Mikkelsen established a new collaboration with J. Markley (CSU Fullerton), N. Sims-Williams (SOAS, London), G. Greatrex (Ottawa) and T, Loden (Stockholm), in the project China and the ancient Mediterranean world, for which ARC funding was obtained for 2010–2012.

(b) ACRC members both visited overseas colleagues, and hosted them: among these reciprocal visits were:

(i) ACRC members overseas (examples): • Choat visited Göttingen in July to work with H. Behlmer. • Lieu worked in Cambridge in first semester 2010, and lectured at Ottawa,

Stanford, UCLA and CSU at Fullerton • T. Evans worked in Oxford in September–October 2010. • Chan visited the Research Centre for Excavated Texts and Philological Studies at

Fudan University in July. • Welborn spent five weeks working at the library at Corinth.

(ii) International collaborators visiting the ACRC (examples) • Dr James Aitken (Cambridge University) visited in April 2010 to work with T.

Evans on the project Words from the Sand. • Prof. Salima Ikram (American University in Cairo) and Dr. Aidan Dodson

(Bristol, UK) spoke at the conference ‘Death, Tombs and Mummies’ (7.8.2010). • Dr Lucy-Anne Hunt (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) visited to take

part on the Conference The Real Picture of Jesus – Text and Image (8.5.2010) • Prof. Hannah Cotton (Hebrew University Jerusalem) visited as the Sir Asher Joel

Fellow for 2010 in August. • Professors Dietrich Wildung (Egyptian Museum, Berlin), Andreas Mehl

(University of Halle), Bezalel Porten (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), and John Rich (University of Nottingham) visited and gave papers during 2010.

(c) 18 papers were presented by Centre members at overseas institutions or conferences (listed in full at 8b,c).

(d) Plans were finalized for the symposium ‘Epistolary Conversations: Opening the Letter of Classical and Late Antiquity’, to be held on 15.11.2010 as a joint symposium with the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University

5. External Financial Support (a) Two ARC-DP applications by Centre members (T. Evans; Lieu and Mikkelsen) were

successful. A team including ACRC members (Gore, Choat)won a ARC LIEF grant (7a). 5 ACRC projects were awarded internal funding (see 7b).

(b) ACRC members, in particular Nobbs, secured commitments from external donors to help support a postdoctoral fellowship in Early Christian Studies.

6. Marketing of MQACRC Activities and Public Impact (a) The ACRC maintained its public profile and outreach activities during 2010; as an

example, Dzino’s work was featured in the Oslobođenje daily newspapers (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 10.9.2010.

(b) The website for the centre (www.acrc.mq.edu.au) was maintained and updated. (c) ACRC members contributed regularly to the Ancient History Seminar Series.

7. Management Effectiveness (a) The Advisory board met on August 5 2010. The Executive met 3 times during the year. (b) A written guide for ECRs was developed and will be put online in 2011 (c) Six new members, three of them ECRs, were inducted into the centre (see at 5). (d) Synergy between the ACRC, Faculty Research Plan, and MQ strategic goals was

maintained.

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3. PROPOSED ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMING 12 MONTHS, AND RELATED KPIS Research, Publication, and Peer Recognition (KPI 1–2, 4) During 2011, the ACRC will continue to advance the projects within its collaborative research programs (www.acrc.mq.edu.au/Research.html). These will be augmented by the new projects for which funding was won during 2010 (see below, 7). Eight archaeological missions are planned during late 2010 and 2011 in Egypt and Italy. This will include continued participation by the ACRC in the excavations at Helwan, for which $30000 has been provided from Macquarie University via the support of the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts (and ex-officio member of the ACRC advisory board) Professor John Simons. Centre members will continue to publish the results of these projects and thus maintain research active status. The Centre will also have a strong presence at peak international events such as the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Congress (San Francisco, USA) (KPIs 2 b-c; 4c). Education, Training, and Career articulation (KPI 3) The ACRC aims to maintain its roster of HDR students (see below, 8), attract at least 5 new HDR students, and have at least 2 completions. Based on preliminary recruiting and checking of progress of current HDR students, both seem entirely achievable. Centre members will devote considerable energy to maintaining the current external sponsorships for short-term postdoctoral fellowships and doctoral grants in aid. International and National Collaboration (KPI 4) A number of international research colleagues have already been invited to Macquarie for 2011. These include:

• The Society for the Study of Early Christianity Fellow 2010, John Fitzgerald (Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Miami University and Yale Divinity School).

• Professor Claudia Rapp (Department of History, UCLA). • Dr Michel Amandry (Curator, Cabinet des Médailles in the Bibliothèque nationale de

France). • Dr Timothy Luckritz (Moravian University) • Dr Laurie Brink (Catholic Union Chicago) • Dr David Wheeler-Reed (University of Ohio, Dayton / University of Toronto) • Dr Thomas Blanton III (Luther College) • The Gale Fellows in Egyptology, Professors Tamas Bacs from Budapest and Karol

Mysliwiec from Warsaw. Further visitors, including an expert in ancient Judaism invited as the Sir Asher Joel Fellow 2011, will be announced early in 2011, along with visits by collaborators on ARC funded projects. A number of ACRC members will also travel to present at international meetings and work with overseas colleagues, such as Hillard, who will present a paper in Athens in 2011 as the Annual Visiting Fellow at the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens. As many as fourteen ARC DP applications in 2011 are planned by the following teams (KPI 5): Choat, H. Behlmer (Göttingen), plus further international collaborators, ‘The Bilingual Scribe in

Late Antique Egypt’.

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Dzino, ‘Negotiating Local and Global: Religion in ancient and early medieval Dalmatia’. Hillard, Beness, Gore, and Traviglia, ‘Ancient landscape transformation in northern Greece:

natural processes and anthropogenic factors’. Parry, Choat, Ghica, and Tristant, ‘Egyptian Monasteries and Hermitages in the Eastern Desert

and the Upper Nile: An Historical Study and Archaeological Survey’. Lieu, McKechnie, and J. Lieu (Cambridge), ‘After Marcion – Religious diversity and the

transformation of Judaeo-Christianity 2nd-3rd C CE.’ Ockinga and S. Binder, ‘The Tomb as Sacred Space: Its Use, Reuse and Abuse as illustrated by the

New Kingdom Tombs of Thebes (Egypt)’. If unsuccessful in the 2010 round, the five applications listed below at 6 will also be resubmitted. Three ARC APD applications sponsored by Centre members will also be made. The following colloquia and conferences will be held under the auspices of the ACRC (KPI 6):

Macquarie University excavations in Egypt Australian Centre for Egyptology (ACRC) Mini Conference, Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club, April 2011.

This event will report on the excavations undertaken in 2010-2011 by members of the ACRC. Corinth: Paul, People, and Politics Society for the Study of Early Christianity Annual Conference, Macquarie University, 14 May 2011.

John Fitzgerald, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Miami University and Yale Divinity School, will be the invited keynote speaker at this event. An evening event on the same day will feature presentations by Professor Claudia Rapp (Department of History, UCLA) and Dr Michel Amandry (Curator, Cabinet des Médailles in the Bibliothèque nationale de France).

Australian Centre for Egyptology (ACRC) Annual Conference Macquarie University, August 2011.

The topic for next year’s conference is not yet determined. The invited speakers will be Professors Tamas Bacs from Budapest and Karol Mysliwiec from Warsaw.

Ptolomy I and the Transformation of Egypt Macquarie University, September 2011.

The third installment of this series of international congresses on Ptolemaic Egypt will be organised by McKechnie

By way of fulfilling KPI 7c, in 2011 the Centre will continue to seek new researchers who meet the entry criteria for research activity and research potential identified by the Centre Executive. Potential candidates to be assessed include the two new research fellows who began work in the Department of Ancient History in 2010, and several other research active staff members in the Department of Ancient History.

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4. FINANCE AND BUDGET (a) Financial summary 2010 Operating Income: $30000 (MQRC funding)

This funding was allocated and spent as follows: $2000: Contribution to the costs of holding the ACRC Symposium ‘Epistolary Conversations:

Opening the Letter of Classical and Late Antiquity’ $1200: Travel and accommodation costs for Chairman of the Advisory board to attend Advisory

Board meeting. $26, 800: Administrative Assistance, breaking down as follows:

$14800: Anna Mourad-Latifa, Centre Administrative Assistant and assistant to the Director.

$6000: Rachel Yuen-Collingridge, Desktop Publication. $6000: Jon Dalrymple: Centre Administrative Assistant.

Research Income

External: $ 365,115 Internal: $ 99,356

This funding was expended on project costs during 2010 according to the budgets of the individual projects.

(b) Projected cash flow and budget 2011 Operating Income: $30000 (MQRC funding)

The projected budget for this funding is: $2000: Maintenance of Centre Website (assistant to be appointed). $5000: Desktop Publication (Rachel Yuen-Collingridge). $5000: Centre Grant writing assistance (Dr Linda Evans). $18,000: Administrative Assistance for Centre and Centre Director (Anna Mourad-Latifa and

others as appointed) Research Income (secured; to be supplemented by any further grant success in late 2010)

External: $ 123,750 Internal: $ 111,312

This funding will be expended on project costs during 2011 according to the budgets of the individual projects

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5. CENTRE MEMBERSHIP, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AND ADVISORY BOARD Membership Dr Shirley Chan (Lecturer, Dept. of International Studies) Dr Malcolm Choat (Lecturer, CORE in Ancient Cultures) Dr Danjel Dzino (ARC APD, Dept. of Ancient History) Dr Trevor Evans (Lecturer, CORE in Ancient Cultures) Dr Linda Evans (MQRF, Dept. of Ancient History) Dr Victor Ghica (Associate Lecturer, Department of Ancient History) Dr Andrew Gillett (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Ancient History) Assoc. Prof. Damian Gore (Dept. of Environment and Geography) Professor Naguib Kanawati (Dept. of Ancient History) Professor Sam Lieu (Dept. of Ancient History) Assoc. Prof. Paul McKechnie (CORE in Ancient Cultures) Dr Gunner Mikkelsen (Lecturer, CORE in Ancient Cultures) Professor Alanna Nobbs (Dept. of Ancient History) Assoc. Prof. Boyo Ockinga, (Dept. of Ancient History) Dr Ken Parry (Senior Lecturer, CORE in Ancient Cultures) Dr Ken Sheedy (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Ancient History; Director, Australian Centre for Ancient

Numismatic Studies) Dr Arianna Traviglia (MQRF, Dept. of Ancient History) Dr Yann Tristant (Lecturer, Department of Ancient History). Professor Laurence Welborn (CORE in Ancient Cultures) Dr Alexandra Woods (Lecturer, CORE in Ancient Cultures) In accordance with the Centre KPIs, two researchers who met the criteria for ACRC membership were invited to join the Centre: in 2010 these were Assoc. Prof. Tom Hillard and Dr Lea Beness. Centre members Drs Heike Behlmer and Christiana Köhler left Macquarie to take up positions in Europe during 2009. In their place Drs Yann Tristant and Victor Ghica (experts in the same field appointed to Macquarie in 2010) were invited to join the centre. In accordance with the Advisory Board’s decision that new Research Fellows in the field of Ancient Cultures should be automatically deemed to have met the funding and research activity criteria for admission, Arianna Traviglia and Danijel Dzino were also invited to become Centre members.

Executive Director: Professor Naguib Kanawati (Dept. of Ancient History) Deputy Directors: Professor Alanna Nobbs (Dept. of Ancient History), Professor Sam Lieu (Dept. of Ancient History) Dr Malcolm Choat (Lecturer, CORE in Ancient Cultures) Dr Linda Evans (MQRF, Dept. of Ancient History) Assoc. Prof. Andrew Gillett (Dept. of Ancient History) Assoc. Prof. Boyo Ockinga (Dept. of Ancient History) Dr Ken Sheedy (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Ancient History; Director, Australian Centre for Ancient

Numismatic Studies) In accordance with a decision of the Advisory Board meeting in 2009, Dr Sheedy was invited to join the Executive. At its October 2010 meeting the Executive also decided to invite Dr Trevor Evans to join the Executive.

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Advisory board Chair: Robert Milns (Emeritus Professor, School of Philosophy, Religion & Classics, University of

Queensland) Deputy Chair: Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science) Professor Andrew Buck, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts Professor Naguib Kanawati, MQACRC Director Professor Alanna Nobbs, MQACRC Deputy Director Dr Linda Evans, MQACRC member Professor Salim Ikram (American University in Cairo), External Advisor Dr Aiden Dodson (Bristol University), External Advisor The Advisory board met in 5th August 2010, presided over by Em. Prof. Bob Milns. During this meeting, decisions taken by the Executive over the previous 12 months were reviewed and approved. The budget for 2011 was discussed and approved; and centre research plans for 2011 were discussed and an overarching research plan for 2011 approved.

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6. EXTERNAL FUNDING APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN 2010 ARC Discovery Project Applications McKechnie, P. Ockinga, B. Bosworth, B. ; Baynham, E. (University of Newcastle), ‘The

transformation of Egypt in the period from Cambyses (525 BC) to Ptolemy Soter (d. 282 BC)’. Kanawati, N, Evans, L., Woods, A., and Robbins, G. (Emory University), ‘Immortal Egypt:

Cultural tradition and transition during the First Intermediate Period at Meir’. Kanawati, N, Evans, L., Woods, A., and Robbins, G. (Emory University), ‘Loyal to the throne?

The formation and fidelity of provincial officials in the Old Kingdom’. Sheedy, K., Gore, D., ‘Funding Tyranny’. Traviglia, A., Veal, R. (University of Sydney), Borzacconi, A. (University of Trieste), ‘Layers of

Landscape: the transformation of Aquileian territory from Romanisation to ruralisation’

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7. NEW INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL GRANTS SECURED, OCTOBER 2009 – SEPTEMBER 2010 (a) External Dzino, D. (sponsor A. Gillett), ‘Ancient and medieval identity-shifts and the construction of

identities in post-Yugoslav space’ (ARC DP1095356, APD, 2010–2013): $275,000. Evans, T.V., Lee, J. and Aitken, J., ‘Words from the sand: A lexical analysis of early Greek papyri

from Egypt’ (ARC DP1092819, 2010–2014): $313,000. Lieu, S.N.C. Mikkelsen, G., Eccles, L., Markley, J., Sims-Williams, N., Greatrex, G. and Loden,

T., ‘China and the ancient Mediterranean world’ (ARC DP1093687, 2010–2012): $216,000.

Mikkelsen, G., ‘China and the Roman East’ (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, 2010–2012): $32,299

Westaway, K., Hesse, P., Gore, D. Fanning, P., Fryirs, K., Choat, M., Goodwin, I., Goff, Skilbeck, Morwood, ‘Single-grain optically-stimulated luminescence and dosimetry instruments to service the Sydney metropolitan and greater New South Wales region’ (ARC LIEF LE100100094, 2010): $110,000.

(b) Internal Kanawati, N., Evans, L., Woods, A., ‘Between two peaks: Tracing Egypt's cultural transition from

the Old Kingdom to the Middle kingdom at Meir (c. 2700 - 1800 BCE)’ (MQ Safety-Net 2010): $19075.

Woods, A., Kanawati, N, Gore, D., ‘Civil War and its Aftermath: Interpreting the Egyptian

Middle Kingdom Art and Inscriptions in the Tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hassan’ (MQRDG 2010–2012): $49,974.

Chan, S. ‘Early Chinese Thought in the Newly Discovered Ancient Bamboo Manuscripts’

(MQRDG 2010–2012): $35,350 Traviglia, A. (sponsor T. Hillard), ‘Beyond the city walls: the landscapes of Aquileia’ (MQRF

2010–2012): $43,998 + fellowship salary. Westaway, K., Goodwin, I., Fryirs, K., Hesse, P., Geroge, S., Choat, M., Fanning, P., Cohen, T.,

‘Luminescence dating facility - dosimetry and detection’ (RIBG 2010): $15,000

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8. CENTRE PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER OUTPUTS, OCTOBER 2009 – SEPTEMBER 2010

(a) Publications by Centre Members

A1 (6) Dzino, D., Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat: Identity Transformations in Post-Roman Dalmatia, East

Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (450-1450), series 12 (Leiden/Boston, 2010) (ISBN: 9789004186460).

Dzino, D., Illyricum and Roman politics: 229 BC – AD 68 (Cambridge, 2010) (ISBN: 9780521194198).

Evans, L., Animal Behaviour in Egyptian Art: Representations of the Natural World in Memphite Tomb Scenes (Oxford, 2010) (ISBN: 9780856688263).

Kanawati, N., Decorated Burial Chambers of the Old Kingdom (Cairo, 2010) (ISBN: 9789774797934).

Kanawati, N. and Woods, A., Beni Hassan: Art and Life in an Egyptian Province (Cairo, 2010) (ISBN: 9789774797927).

Ockinga, B., The Tomb of Amenemope (TT 148), vol. 1: Architecture, Texts and Decoration, ACE Reports 27 (Oxford, 2009) (ISBN: 9780856688249).

A3 (6) Sidwell, B. and Dzino, D. (eds.) Studies in Emotions and Power in the Late Roman World: Papers in

Honour of Ron Newbold (in press, Piscataway NJ, 2010). Evans, L. (ed.), Ancient Memphis: ‘Enduring is the Perfection’: Proceedings of the International

Conference held at Macquarie University, Sydney on August 14-15, 2008 (Leuven, forthcoming).

Howlett, D. R. (ed.), assisted by Christchev, T.G., Evans, T. V., Piper, P. O. and White, C., Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, Fasc. 12: Pos-Pro (Oxford, 2009).

Evans, T. V. and Obbink, D. D., (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford, 2010). Lieu, S. N. C., (ed.), Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Series Subsidia, vol. 6: Greek and Latin Sources

on Manichaean Cosmogony and Ethics, trans. Fox, G. and Sheldon, J. (Turnhout, 2010, in press). Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour

of Naguib Kanawati. 2 vols. (Cairo, 2010). B1 (25) Beness, J. L., ‘Atia, mother of Augustus’, in Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and

Huebner, S. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford, in press). Beness, J. L. and Hillard, T. W., ‘Choosing friends, foes and fiefdoms in the second century: defining

Roman expansion in the second century BC (c. 150-100)’, in Hoyos, D. (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Roman Imperialism (Leiden, forthcoming).

Beness, J. L. and Hillard, T. W., ‘Rei militaris virtus ...: the transformation of Roman imperium’, in Hoyos, D. (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Roman Imperialism (Leiden, forthcoming).

Chan, S. (Chen Hui), ‘Guodian Chujian de Tianren Guanxi yu “Ming” de Yiyi’, in Ding Sixin (ed.), Chudi Jianbo Sixiang Yanjiu Disiji (Studies of the Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts from the Chu), vol. 4. (Wuhan, 2010, forthcoming).

Chan, S., ‘Identifying Daoist Humour: Reading the Liezi’, in Davis, J. M. and Chey, J. V. (eds.) Humour in Chinese Life and Letters (Hong Kong, 2010, forthcoming).

Neville, R. and Chan, S. (trans.), ‘Zuowei Shijiexing Zhexue de Ruxue (Confucianism as a World Philosophy)’, in Xinyan, J. (ed.), Yingyu Shijie Zhong de Zhongguo Zhexue (Chinese Philosophy in the English-speaking World) (Beijing, 2010), 313–331.

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Choat, M., ‘Early Coptic Epistolography’, in Papaconstantinou, A. (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the Abassids (Ashgate, 2010), 153–178.

Choat, M., ‘Athanasius, Pachomius, and the “Letter on Charity and Temperance”‘, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 1 (Cairo, 2010), 97–104.

Choat, M. and Yuen-Collingridge, R., ‘The Egyptian Hermas: The Shepherd in Egypt before Constantine’, in Kraus, T. and Nicklas, T. (eds.), Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach (Leiden, 2010), 191–212.

Evans, L., ‘Otter or mongoose? Chewing over the evidence in wall scenes’, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 1 (Cairo, 2010), 119-129.

Evans, T. V., ‘Identifying the Language of the Individual in the Zenon Archive’, in Evans, T. V. and Obbink, D. D. (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford, 2010), 51–70.

Evans, T. V. and Obbink, D. D., ‘Introduction’, in Evans, T. V. and Obbink, D. D. (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford, 2010), 1–12.

Hillard, T. W., ‘The God Abandons Antony: Alexandrian Street Theatre in 30 B.C.’, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 1 (Cairo, 2010), 201–217.

Hillard, T. W., ‘The Claudii’, in Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford, in press).

Hillard, T. W., ‘Velleius Paterculus and the Reluctant Princeps: the evolution of Roman perceptions of leadership’, in Cowan, E. (ed.), Velleius Paterculus. Making History (Wales, 2010, forthcoming).

Kanawati, N., ‘Chronology of the Old Kingdom Nobles of El-Qusiya Revisited’, in Hawass, Z., Der Manualian, P. and Hussein, R. B., Perspectives on Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Edward Brovarski (Cairo, 2010), 207–220.

Mikkelsen, G. B., ‘Mani; Manichaeism’, in Patte, D. (ed.), Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge, 2010).

Mikkelsen, G. B. ‘Paulicians’, in Patte, D. (ed.), Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge, 2010). Mikkelsen, G. B., ‘Augustine and his sources: the ‘devil’s snares and birdlime’ in the mouths of

Manichaeans in East and West’, in van den Berg, J. A., Kotzé, A., Nicklas, T. and Scopello, M. (eds.), In Search of Truth: Augustine, Manichaeism and other Gnosticism. Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (Leiden etc., in press, 2010), 419–25.

Nobbs, A., ‘Phileas, Bishop of Thmouis’, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 2 (Cairo, 2010), 93–97.

Ockinga, B., ‘The Memphite Theology: Its purpose and date’, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 2 (Cairo, 2010), 99–117.

Sheedy, K., ‘Scenes from Alexandria in the Time of Domitian’, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 2 (Cairo, 2010), 205–217.

Evans, D., and Traviglia, A., ‘Uncovering Angkor: Integrated remote sensing applications in the archaeology of early Cambodia’, in Lasaponara, R. and Masini, N. (eds.), Satellite Remote Sensing: A New Tool for Archaeology (New York, 2010).

Woods, A., ‘A Date for the Tomb of Seneb at Giza: Revisited’, in Woods, A., McFarlane, A. and Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society: Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, vol. 2. (Cairo, 2010), 301–331.

Woods, A., ‘Relief’ in Hartwig, M. (ed.), The Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Accepted for publication 2/08/2010.

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C1 (23) Beness, J. L., ‘Carbo’s Tribunate of 129 and the Associated Dicta Scipionis’, Phoenix 63 (2009), 60–

72. Beness, J. L., Hillard, T. W. and Dunn, R., ‘The Harbour of Torone and its Disappearance’,

Australian Archaeological Fieldwork Abroad 1 (a special issue of AH:RFT 37.1 2007 [2009]), 84–93.

Beness, J. L. and Hillard, T. W., ‘Torone, Trade and the Sea: Towards a History of the Harbour’ Mediterranean Archaeology 22 (in press).

Beness, J. L., Hillard, T. W., Dunn, R., and Sprent, A., ‘The Coastal Topography of Ancient Torone’, Mediterranean Archaeology 22 (in press).

Chan, S. (Chen Hui), ‘Xing Zi Ming Chu zhong de Xiushen’, in Guoxue Xuekan (Research in Traditional Chinese Culture Quarterly) (2010, forthcoming).

Liao, M. and Chan, S., ‘Exegesis of the Baoxun Text in the Bamboo Slip Manuscripts acquired by Tsinghua University’, in Zhongguo Zhexueshi (History of Chinese Philosophy Quarterly) (2010, forthcoming).

Choat, M., ‘The Public and Private Worlds of Theophanes of Hermopolis Magna’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 88 (2006) [2009], 41–75.

Choat, M. and Yuen-Collingridge, R., ‘A church with no Books and a reader who cannot Write. The Strange case of P.Oxy. 33.2673’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009), 109–138.

Dzino, D., ‘“Dezidijati”: Identitetski konstrukt između antičkih i suvremenih percepcija’ (‘The “Daesitiates”: The Identity-Construct between Contemporary and Ancient Perceptions’), Godišnjak Centra za Balkanološka ispitivanja 38/36 (2009), 75–95.

Dzino, D., ‘Bindus Neptunus: Hybridity, acculturation and the display of power in the hinterland of Roman Dalmatia’, Histria Antiqua 18/1 (2009), 355–362.

Dzino, D., ‘Novi pristupi izučavanju hrvatskog identiteta’ (‘A new approaches to the study of the earliest Croat identity’), Radovi zavoda za hrvatsku povijest 41 (2009), 33–54.

Dzino, D., ‘Aspects of Identity-Construction and Cultural Mimicry among the Dalmatian Sailors in the Roman Navy’, Antichthon: Journal of Australasian Society for Classical Studies 44 (2010), 96–110.

Dzino, D., ‘Pričam ti priču: Ideološko-narativni diskursi o dolasku Hrvata u De Administrando Imperio’(‘Telling the Stories: Ideological-Narrative Discourses on the Croat Migrations in De Administrando Imperio’), Radovi zavoda za hrvatsku povijest 42 (forthcoming in November 2010).

Dzino, D., ‘Asinius Pollio in Dalmatia: What happened in Salona 39 BC?’, Klio: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte 93/1 (2011) (forthcoming early in 2011).

Evans, L., ‘The shedshed of Wepwawet: An artistic and behavioural interpretation’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (in press). Accepted for publication 22/1/10.

Evans, L., ‘Userkaf’s birds unmasked’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (in press). Accepted for publication 25/8/10.

Evans, T. V., ‘Counting Chickens in PSI VI 569’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 173 (2010), 191–200.

Heiden, E. S., Gore, D. B. and Stark, S. C., ‘Transportable EDXRF analysis of environmental water samples using Amberlite IRC748 ion-exchange preconcentration’, X-Ray Spectrometry 39/3 (2010), 176–183.

White, D., Fink, D. and Gore, D. B., ‘Cosmogenic nuclide evidence for enhanced sensitivity of an East Antarctic ice stream to change during the last deglaciation’, Geology (MS G31591) (in press).

Hillard, T. W., ‘Shocking Audiences Modern and Ancient’, Australasian Drama Studies 56 (2010), 131–153.

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Parry, K., ‘Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: A Review Article’, Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 4 (2009) (in press).

Pütz, B. and Sheedy, K., ‘Bad hair day’, Antichthon 44 (2010), 33–49. Traviglia, A. and Cottica, D., ‘Remote Sensing applications and archaeological research in the

Northern Lagoon of Venice: The case of the lost settlement of Costancianus’, Journal of Archaeological Science, Special Issue (in press).

C4 (3) Chan, S., ‘Reassessing Early Confucianism in Light of Newly Excavated Texts’ (Review of Guodian

Chujian Yu Simeng Xuepai [The Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts and the Zisi-Mencian School] [Guoxue Yanjiu Wenku, Beijing, 2008], by Tao, L.), China Review International, vol. 61/3, (2010, forthcoming).

Evans, T. V., Review of Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt (CPR XXVIII) by La’da, C. A., Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2009) (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009, 2009.09.30).

Evans, T. V., ‘The Oxyrhynchus Glossary’ (Review of From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary [P. Oxy. 1802 + 4812] by Schironi, F.), Classical Review, 60/2 (2010), 415–17.

E1 (6) Evans, L., ‘Animal behaviour in Egyptian Art: A Brief Overview’ in Proceedings of the 10th

International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes, Greece (Leuven, in press). Accepted for publication 08/01/09.

Evans, T. V., ‘Standard Koine Greek in Third Century bc Papyri’, in Gagos, T. (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29–August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor, 2010), 197–206.

Kanawati, N., ‘The Memphite control of Upper Egypt during the Old Kingdom: The cases of Edfu, Abydos and Akhmim’ in Evans, L. (ed.), Ancient Memphis: ‘Enduring is the Perfection’: Proceedings of the International Conference held at Macquarie University, Sydney, August 14-15, 2008 (Leuven, forthcoming). Accepted for publication.

Tristant, Y. and Smythe, J., ‘New Excavations for an Old Cemetery: Preliminary Results of the Abu Rawash Project on the M Cemetery (1st Dynasty)’, in Friedman, R. F. (ed.), Egypt at its Origins 3: Proceedings of the International Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”, London, 27th July-1st August 2008 (Leuven, in press). Accepted for publication 01/02/10.

Woods, A., ‘ZSS wAD in the Old Kingdom Revisited’, in Strudwick, N., and Strudwick, H. (eds.), Proceedings of the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. May 20-23 2009 (Oxford, in press). Accepted for publication 18/11/2009.

Woods, A., ‘Five significant features in Old Kingdom spear-fishing and fowling scenes’, in Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes, Greece (Leuven, in press). Accepted for publication 08/01/09.

(b) Conference Presentations (17) International (11) Chan, S., ‘The Text of Baoxun (Admonition of Protection) in the Tsinghua Collections of the Bamboo Slip Manuscripts’, 2010 Annual Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society, University of Colorado, Boulder, October, 2010.

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Choat, M., ‘Lord Crawford’s Search for Papyri : On the Origin of the Rylands Papyrus Collection’, 26th International Congress of Papyrology, University of Geneva, Geneva, August 16–21, 2010.

Choat, M. (with R. Yuen-Collingridge), ‘The Copyist at Work: Scribal Practice in Duplicate Documents’, 26th International Congress of Papyrology, University of Geneva, Geneva, August 16–21, 2010.

Evans, T. V., ‘The Language of the Doiketes’ Letters in the Zenon Archive’, 26th International Congress of Papyrology, University of Geneva, Geneva, August 16–21, 2010.

Dzino, D., ‘Bellum Batonianum: Its Position in Contemporary Historiography Outside Post-Yugoslav Region’, Bellum Batonianum MM, University of Zagreb, Croatia (in absentia: full text of the paper printed in the conference booklet), November 2009.

Dzino, D., ‘We hold you on your word, Constantine! The Discourses on Croat Arrival in the De Administrando Imperio’, In the Beginning there was Constantine: The Narratives of the Croats in De Administrando Imperio, University of Zagreb, Croatia (in absentia: full text of the paper read in the session on the special request of conference conveners), February 2010.

Kanawati, N., ‘Gridlines and the Copying of Old Kingdom Scenes in Later Periods’, Abusir and Saqqara: International Conference at Charles University, Prague, May–June 2010.

Ockinga, B., ‘The Teti Pyramid Cemetery North – tracing the lost New Kingdom tombs: Results of the 2009 and 2010 Seasons’, Abusir and Saqqara: International Conference at Charles University, Prague, May–June 2010.

Ockinga, B., ‘Subversion oder Loyalität? Nochmal zur Frage der Beziehung zwischen der höchsten Priester Thebens und dem König in der späten Ramessidenzeit’, Symposion zur ägyptischen Königsideologie, Iphofen, July 2010.

Woods, A., ‘A Date for the Tomb of Seneb at Giza: Revisited’, The American Research Centre in Egypt, Annual General Meeting, Oakland, April 25, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘One Tomb: Two Owners? The Case of Nefer-seshem-Ptah at Saqqara’, Abusir and Saqqara: International Conference at Charles University, Prague, May–June 2010.

Domestic (6) Dzino, D., ‘From Political Imagination to Provincial Space: Appian’s Illyrike as the Final Stage of the

Roman Construction of Illyricum’, Appian and the Romans, University of Sydney, July 2010. Evans, L., ‘Animals in Coptic Art’, Symposium on Coptic Art, The Society for the Study of Early

Christianity, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 6, 2010. Ghica, V., ‘Text and Image at Bagawat’, Symposium on Coptic Art, The Society for the Study of Early

Christianity, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 6, 2010. Parry, K., ‘Be Upstanding: Images of Resurrection in Early Christian Art’, The Real Picture of Jesus:

Text and Image SSEC Conference, Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 8, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘One Tomb: Two Owners? The Case of Nefer-seshem-Ptah at Saqqara’, Excavations and Discoveries in Egypt: 2009-2010 Season Mini-Conference, The Australian Centre for Egyptology Annual Mini Conference, March 28, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘The Tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara: Art and Architecture’, The Annual Ancient History Teachers’ Conference 2010, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 1, 2010.

(c) Invited papers at Overseas Institutions (7) Choat, M., ‘A Coptic Ritual Handbook in the Macquarie Collection’, University of Leipzig, DDGLC,

Explorations in Coptology 1, August 15, 2010. Evans, T. V., ‘The “Words from the Sand” Project: A Lexical Analysis of Early Greek Papyri from

Egypt’, Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar, University of Manchester, Manchester, September 30, 2010.

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Lieu, S. N. C., ‘Christians and Manichaeans on the South China Coast in the Era of Marco Polo’, University of Washington, April 7, 2010.

Lieu, S. N. C., ‘Nestorians and Manichaeans on the South China Coast in the Time of Marco Polo’, Centre for Chinese Studies, UCLA International Institute, April 29, 2010.

Ockinga, B., ‘Das Grab des Neferrenpet in Dra Abu el Naga (TT 147): neue Ergebnisse aus der Arbeit der Macquarie University’, University of Vienna, Department of Egyptology, May 28, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘Pepyankh-heryib of Meir: Tracing his Family Background’, Egypt Exploration Society, British Council, Cairo, January 18, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘Fishing, Fowling and Foreigners: The Middle Kingdom Tombs at Beni Hassan’, The American Research Centre in Egypt, Orange Country and Los Angeles Chapters, August 14, 2010.

(d) Other Outputs (8) Gillet, A., ‘Persona and Purpose in Sixth-Century Diplomacy’, Department of Ancient History

Research Seminar Series, Macquarie University, Sydney, April 30, 2010. Lieu, S. N. C., ‘Kalipolis, the Original Gallipoli’, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, April 23,

2010. McKechnie, P., ‘New Gravestone Using the Eumenian Formula’, Department of Ancient History

Research Seminar Series, Macquarie University, Sydney, February 26, 2010. Parry, K., ‘A Bishop Lost in Egypt: On the Exile, Demise and Remains of Nestorius’, Department of

Ancient History Research Seminar Series, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 28, 2010. Traviglia, A., ‘The Suburbs of the Empire: Beyond Aquileia’s City Walls’, Department of Ancient

History Research Seminar Series, Macquarie University, Sydney, March 5, 2010. Woods, A., ‘Naguib Kanawati: A Tribute’, Launch of a Festschrift in Honour of Professor Naguib

Kanawati by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities’, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zamalek, Cairo, February 11, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘Macquarie University in Egypt: The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara’, The Joan and John Lincoln Society, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 20, 2010.

Woods, A., ‘Naguib Kanawati: A Life in Egyptology’, The Australian Centre for Egyptology Annual Dinner, May 22, 2010.

(e) Conferences, Colloquia, and Outreach Events convened by ACRC Members or under the

auspices of the ACRC (5)

Official launch of the ‘Words from the Sand’ Project, University of Manchester, April 8, 2010. Convened by T. Evans.

Department of Ancient History Research Seminar Series. Convened by T. Evans. ‘Excavations and Discoveries in Egypt: 2009-2010 Season Mini-Conference’, The Australian Centre

for Egyptology Annual Mini Conference, March 28, 2010. ‘Symposium on Coptic Art’, The Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University,

Sydney, May 6, 2010. ‘The Real Picture of Jesus – Text and Image’, Society for the Study of Early Christianity Annual

Conference, May 8, 2010 ‘Death, Tombs and Mummies’, Australian Centre for Egyptology Annual Conference, Australian

Centre for Egyptology, Macquarie University, Sydney, August 7, 2010.

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HDR STUDENTS DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACRC (a) Commenced in 2010 – 33 students Name Course Thesis Title Primary

Supervisor Associate Supervisor/s

Anagnostou, Evangelia

MPhil Monarchy and Soteriology in the Ancient NE

Llewelyn, Stephen Ockinga, Boyo

Baghos, Mario PhD The Sacred Topography of Constantinople 6th to 12th Centuries

Parry, Kenneth Nobbs, Alanna

Bennett, Cassandra PhD Veiled Women in Ancient Rome.

Gillett, Andrew Llewelyn, Stephen; Keegan, Peter; Beness, Lea

Briscoe, Timothy PhD Roman Representation of their Sasaulan Enemy

Nobbs, Alanna, Edwell, Peter,

Bryant, Kerry PhD The Spiritual Evolution of the Slave

Llewelyn, Stephen Welborn, Laurence

Burchfield, Richard PhD Networks of the Theban Desert.

Choat, Malcolm Evans, Trevor

Cipuseva, Katarina MPhil A Lexical Analysis of Early Greek Papyri and Related Sources from Egypt

Evans, Trevor Lee, John

Clark, Iain PhD Qing Imperial Ceramic Ritual Vessels: A Study of Regulation in 18th Century China

Chan, Shirley

Clarke,Therese PhD Analysis of the Changing Policy of the Central Administration of Upper Egypt & Nubia During Old Kingdom

Kanawati, Naguib Woods, Alexandra

Cowie, Paul PhD Pax Aegyptiaca? Reassessing the new kingdom Egyptian Empire in the Levant

Kanawati, Naguib Ockinga, Boyo,

Evans, Natasha PhD Djedkare to Unis: The Development of Artistic Traditions


Farquharson, Paul MPhil Investigation of Natural Phenomena in Historical Sources

Llewelyn, Stephen Nobbs, Alanna; Gillett, Andrew

Gersbach, James MPhil Battle-Cry in the Ancient Medierranean.

Keegan, Peter , Peter

Beness, Lea

Gonzalez, Eliezer PhD The Concept of the Ascent of the Soul after Death in its Early Christian Context

Nobbs, Alanna Welborn, Laurence

Gosbell, Louise PhD Disability in the Gospel of Luke

Llewelyn, Stephen Welborn, Laurence; Nongbri, Brent

Hampson, Michelle PhD Men at work - A Comparative study of scenes of craft and industry in private tombs of Old Kingdom

Kanawati, Naguib Ockinga, Boyo

Hong, Andrew PhD An Ideal Leadership – a Comparative Study of the Confucian Classics and the New Testament

Chan, Shirley

Lacoba, Fatima MPhil Christianity and The Roman Nobbs, Alanna Keegan, Peter

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Military. Lee, Daniel PhD Confucian Poetics – a Study

of the Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts in the Shanghai Museum Collection

Chan, Shirley

McCorquodale, Kim PhD Representation of the family in Old Kingdom Egypt

Ockinga, Boyo Kanawati, Naguib

Mottram, Timothy MPhil Identity and Representation in Byzantium


Nasoraia, Brikha PhD A Critical Edition of the Secret Mandean Nasoraean Scroll

Lieu, Samuel Mikkelsen, Gunner

Ogereau, Julien PhD Leadership in Pauline Communities

Welborn, Laurence Forbes, Chris; Concannon, Cavan

Orucu, Ferim PhD Funerary Rites in Old-Middle Kingdoms


Persson, Robert PhD Discourse and Dialogue in Middle Kingdom Literature

Ockinga, Boyo Kanawati, Naguib; Binder, Susanne

Petrakis Vicki

MPhil Desert Mothers as Exemplars of Their Faith.

Nobbs, Alanna

Price, Rebecca PhD Temple Inscription as Evidence for the Population of Dura Europa in Seleucid, Parthian & Roman Periods

Edwell, Peter Lieu, Samuel

Sanderson, Bianca PhD The Role and Portrayal of Women at Critical Points in Roman History

Keegan, Peter Hillard, Thomas

Shiner, Rory PhD History, Epistemology and the Resurrection Tradition


Smith, William PhD Pepy II to Nitocris: The Last Years of the Old Kingdom

Woods, Alexandra Kanawati, Naguib

Sowden, Laura PhD Political Women in Early Imperial China.

Mikkelsen, Gunner Lieu, Samuel

Theodoridis, Ioannis PhD The Introduction of Coenobitic Monasticism on Mount Athos


Unwin, James MPhil Resurrection and Social Conflict in Corinth

Welborn, Laurence Llewelyn, Stephen

(b) Current ACRC HDR Students – 105 students [including those from (a)] Name Course Thesis Title Primary

Supervisor Associate Supervisor/s

Almond, Mathew PhD Greek Loan Words in Coptic Choat, Malcolm Evans, Trevor

Anagnostou, Evangelia

MPhil Monarchy and Soteriology in the Ancient NE


Arden-Wong, Lyndon PhD Uighur Khanate Culture: Historical and Archaeological Analysis

Mikkelsen, Gunner Lieu, Sam

Ayer, Kavita PhD Measuring Worth: Articulations of Poverty and Identity in the Late Roman Republic

Hillard, Thomas Nobbs, Alanna

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Baghos, Mario PhD The Sacred Topography of Constantinople 6th to 12th Centuries


Barnes, Bruce MPhil Personhood within Coptic hagiography: strategies of characterisation and rhetoric.

Choat, Malcolm Behlmer-Loprieno, Heike

Bennett, Cassandra PhD Veiled Women in Ancient Rome.

Gillett, Andrew Llewelyn, Stephen; Keegan, Peter; Beness, Lea

Betts, Ian PhD The origins development and context of the laws relating to ambitus("Bribery") in public life in the late Roman Republic.

Beness, Lea Keegan, Peter

Bitner, Bradley PhD Constitution and Covenant in Corinth: The Legal Framework of Community, Identity and Responsibility in the Pauline Ekklesia.

Welborn, Laurence

Forbes, Chris

Bolle, Helena PhD Images of the body in the Jewish texts


Briscoe, Timothy PhD Roman Representation of their Sasaulan Enemy

Nobbs, Alanna, Edwell, Peter,

Bryant, Kerry PhD The Spiritual Evolution of the Slave


Burchfield, Richard PhD Networks of the Theban Desert.


Burge, David PhD 1st Century Alternative Guides to Life and death in the Roman East: A Comparative Study of Epictetus, Philo and Peter

Llewelyn, Stephen Winter, Bruce ; Welborn, Laurence

Burn, John PhD Shifting Policies and Brittle Allies: An Analytical Investigation into the Rise and Fall of the Fifth Dynasty

Kanawati, Naguib Woods, Alex

Burns, Ross Austin PhD Urban Landscapes in Cities of the Roman East

Lieu, Samuel Edwell, Peter; Kehrberg-Ostrasz, Ina

Cipuseva, Katarina MPhil A Lexical Analysis of Early Greek Papyri and Related Sources from Egypt

Evans, Trevor Lee, John

Clark, Iain PhD Qing Imperial Ceramic Ritual Vessels: A Study of Regulation in 18th Century China

Chan, Shirley

Clarke,Therese PhD Analysis of the Changing Policy of the Central Administration of Upper Egypt & Nubia During Old Kingdom


Cowie, Paul PhD Pax Aegyptiaca? Reassessing the new kingdom Egyptian Empire in

Kanawati, Naguib Ockinga, Boyo,

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the Levant Cowie, Paul PhD Pax Aegyptiaca? :

reassessing the new kingdom egyptian empire in the levant


Crown, Vanessa PhD The Domestic and International Court Identity of Ptolemy VIII Physcon Euergetes II


Dalrymple, Jon PhD In sickness and in health: a study of published papyri documenting "DEPaITEia" in Graeco-Roman Egypt from the third century BC to the sixth century AD

Nobbs, Alanna Phillips, David

Darlow, Steven PhD A Chronological Analysis of Middle Kingdom Tombs at Meir


Davis, Gillan PhD A Fresh Look at Public Administration in Athens in the 5th BCE Through a Reappraisal of Extent, Published, State Documents

Phillips, David Sheedy, Ken; Plant, Ian

Doherty, Bernard PhD Communities, conflict & cooperation: a social historical study of early "Christianities" in Phrygia

McKechnie, Paul Lieu, Sam; Nobbs, Alanna

Evans, Karen PhD Second Storey Space in Pompeii

Nobbs, Alanna Keegan, Peter

Evans, Natasha PhD Djedkare to Unis: The Development of Artistic Traditions


Farquharson, Paul MPhil Investigation of Natural Phenomena in Historical Sources

Llewelyn, Stephen Nobbs, Alanna; Gillett, Andrew

Fitzpatrick, Graham MPhil The View of Roman Writers on Sexual Relationships Between Males

McKechnie, Paul Piggin, Stuart

Gersbach, James MPhil Battle-Cry in the Ancient Medierranean.

Keegan, Peter , Peter

Beness, Lea

Gibson, James PhD The Development of the "sensus divinitatis" and the Propagation of the Christian Gospel.

Piggin, Stuart Parry, Ken

Gillett, Miriam PhD 'Inventing the Etruscan': Graeco-Roman constructions of the Etruscan peoples and the formation of an identity

McKechnie, Paul Hillard, Tom

Gonzalez, Eliezer PhD The Concept of the Ascent of the Soul after Death in its Early Christian Context


Gosbell, Louise PhD Disability in the Gospel of Luke

Llewelyn, Stephen Welborn, Laurence; Nongbri, Brent

Halliwell, Ally PhD Origins of Thai Pottery Gore, Damian Simpson, Andrew

Hampson, Michelle PhD Men at work - A Kanawati, Naguib Ockinga, Boyo

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Comparative study of scenes of craft and industry in private tombs of Old Kingdom

Hampson, Michelle PhD Men At Work - A Comparative Study Of Scenes Of Craft And Industry In Private Tombs Of The Old Kingdom


Hardtke, Frederick MA-R The Society and Culture of the Western Desert Communities in Pharaonic Egypt

Tristant, Yann Kanawati, Naguib

Hebblewhite, Mark PhD Military loyalty and the Roman Emperor 235AD-395AD

Nobbs, Alanna Lieu, Sam; Edwell, Peter

Hong, Andrew PhD An Ideal Leadership – a Comparative Study of the Confucian Classics and the New Testament

Chan, Shirley

Horne, Lauren PhD Examination of the effects of Roman republican coinage on the development of the literary tradition

Beness, Jillian Sheedy, Ken; Hillard, Tom

Hreszczuk, Adam PhD Religion Experience in the Magical Papyri from Roman Egypt

Choat, Malcolm McKechnie, Paul

Jones, Jana PhD Textiles in early Egyptian funerary contexts: an iconographic, lexicographic and archaeological Analysis

Kanawati, Naguib Oldfield, Ronald; Ockinga, Boyo

Keith, Michelle PhD Fish and Fishing in Old Kingdom Tombs


Kepreotes, James PhD A Diachronic Study of Greek Paideia: Plato, Photios and Nicodemos the Athnite

Parry, Kenneth Kefallinos, Elizabeth; Nobbs, Alanna

Kriening, Karlheinz MPhil Revolts from the Athenian Empire in the 5th Century BC

Plant, Ian Sheedy, Ken

La Loggia, Angela PhD Mud Brick Construction in Ancient Egypt - Architectural and Engineering Analysis.

Tristant, Yann Ockinga, Boyo

Lacoba, Fatima MPhil Christianity and The Roman Military.

Nobbs, Alanna Keegan, Peter

Lee, Daniel PhD Confucian Poetics – a Study of the Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts in the Shanghai Museum Collection

Chan, Shirley

Loftus, Susan PhD Authority and Religion in Post-Roman Barbarian Kingdoms

Nobbs, Alanna Nixon, Charles

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Lyzwa-Piber, Anetta Irena

PhD Everday Life in the Deir Al-Baramus Monastery(Wadi Al-Natrun, Egypt) from the Fatamid to Mamluk Period.

Choat, Malcolm Behlmer-Loprieno, Heike

Maric, Lazar PhD Literary propaganda in ancient Rome, communication and formation of attitudes

Gillett, Andrew Welborn, Laurence; Evans, Trevor

McCorquodale, Kim PhD Representation of the family in Old Kingdom Egypt


McCorquodale, Kim PhD Representations Of The Family In Old Kingdom Egypt


Michie, Ian PhD Paideia and Askesis: Training for Virtue


Miles, Beverley PhD Continity and Change in Old Kingdom Art

Kanawati, Naguib Ockinga, Boyo; Evans, Linda

Moess, Charles PhD The Social, Cultural, and Political Relationship between Byzantium and the Kingdom of Hungary and the Danube Region 950-1453

Parry, Kenneth Andrew Gillett

Moore, Peter PhD The Comparison of an Aspect of the Preaching of John Chrysostom and John Calvin

Piggin, Stuart Parry, Ken

Mottram, Timothy MPhil Identity and Representation in Byzantium


Nasoraia, Brikha PhD A Critical Edition of the Secret Mandean Nasoraean Scroll

Lieu, Samuel Mikkelsen, Gunner

Newton, William MPhil An Examination of the Barbarian Invasion of Gaul on 31 Dec 406 AD

Gillett, Andrew Nobbs, Alanna

Ogereau, Julien PhD Leadership in Pauline Communities

Welborn, Laurence Forbes, Chris; Concannon, Cavan

Orucu, Ferim PhD Funerary Rites in Old-Middle Kingdoms


Papantoniou, Anthony

PhD A study of the historical development of hte idea of Theandricity in the ancient world through the early Christian and Byzantine Periods


Persson, Robert PhD Discourse and Dialogue in Middle Kingdom Literature

Ockinga, Boyo Kanawati, Naguib; Binder, Susanne

Petrakis Vicki

MPhil Desert Mothers as Exemplars of Their Faith.

Nobbs, Alanna

Petrakis, Vicki PhD Gregory Nazianzus' Doctrine of the Logos


Piccolo, Ester PhD Funerary Beliefs and Practices in Iron Age Israelite Culture

Llewelyn, Stephen Kohler, Christiana

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Pitkin, Melanie PhD Evaluating the Representation of Egypt's First Intermediate Period in Museums

Kanawati, Naguib Ockinga, Boyo; Strudwick, Nigel

Power, Ronika PhD From the cradle to the grave: child and infant burials in the Egyptian archaeological record

Tristrant, Yann Ockinga, Boyo; Neill, Amanda

Price, Rebecca PhD Temple Inscription as Evidence for the Population of Dura Europa in Seleucid, Parthian & Roman Periods

Edwell, Peter Lieu, Samuel

Radford, Fiona PhD SWF seeking sensitive new age gladiator: chicks in ancient history flicks

Hillard, Thomas Beness, Lea

Refaei, Ezzat PhD Local and regional diversity in pre-dynastic Egypt: a comparitive analyeses of Upper Egyptian cemeteries

Tristrant, Yann Ockinga, Boyo

Renton, Stephen PhD Propaganda in Ancient Egypt.

Ockinga, Boyo Behlmer-Loprieno, Heike

Riddell, Caroline PhD Individuality and Generalisation in the Representation of the Human Figure in Old Kimdom

Kanawati, Naguib Evans, Linda; Ockinga, Boyo

Rowling, Giles PhD How was Roman Law Received Into the Province of Arabia

McKechnie, Paul Llewelyn, Stephen

Roy, Annalissa PhD Language of the Mons Claudianus Osraca

Evans, Trevor Choat, Malcolm

Sanderson, Bianca PhD The Role and Portrayal of Women at Critical Points in Roman History

Keegan, Peter Hillard, Thomas

Scott, Timothy PhD The Berlin Republic and approaches to ethnicity in the antique west

Gillett, Andrew Nobbs, Alanna

Sheldon, John PhD An Edition of the Mainchaean Prayer and Confessional Book

Lieu, Samuel Nobbs, Alanna

Shelley, Bronwen PhD Daughters of the Old Kingdom


Shin, Min Seok PhD The Great Persecution: A New Examination

McKechnie, Paul Lieu, Sam

Shiner, Rory PhD History, Epistemology and the Resurrection Tradition


Sinclair, Neil MPhil The Hare Nome from the 4th through to the 12th dynasty


Smith, William PhD Pepy II to Nitocris: The Last Years of the Old Kingdom

Woods, Alexandra Kanawati, Naguib

Sowden, Laura PhD Political Women in Early Mikkelsen, Gunner Lieu, Samuel

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Imperial China. Spry, Beau MPhil Mineralogy and

geochemistry of pottery from Pompei

Gore, Damian

St Shenouda, Anthony

PhD The Development of Coptic Hagiography

Choat, Malcolm Nobbs, Alanna

Stephens, Michael MA(H) A categorisation and examination of Egyptian ships and boats from the rise of the old to the end of the middle Kingdoms

Tristrant, Yann Ockinga, Boyo

Tansey, Patrick PhD A Prosopographical Corpus of Marriage in the Roman Elite in the Second and First Centuries B.C.


Tarawneh, Hanadah PhD Studies in the Lexicon of the Amarna Letters.

Ockinga, Boyo Weeks, Noel

Theodoridis, Ioannis PhD The Introduction of Coenobitic Monasticism on Mount Athos


Tsonis, James PhD The Epistemology of History


Turner, Susan PhD The horse in Ancient Egypt Ockinga, Boyo Kanawati, Naguib

Unwin, James MPhil Resurrection and Social Conflict in Corinth

Welborn, Laurence Llewelyn, Stephen

West, Glennise PhD The Teknu Kanawati, Naguib Woods, Alex

Westcott, Alexander PhD Motivation in Macedonian and Roman Armies

Hillard, Thomas Bosworth, Brian

Westcott, Ellen PhD The Inscriptions and Visual Imagery of the Cemetery of Isola Sacra


Wilson, Arwen PhD Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium

Hillard, Thomas Nobbs, Alanna

Windon, Bradley PhD Making Christians in Tertullian

Nobbs, Alanna Forbes, Chris

Wright, Nicholas Luke

PhD Gods at the Crossroads: Religious Assimilation and Rejection in the Hellenistic Levant

Edwell, Peter Lieu, Sam; Sheedy, Ken; Clarke, G; Kehrberg-Ostrasz, Ina

Young, Genevieve PhD Competing Monotheisms in the Byzantine and Western Medieval Periods, 6th-15th Centuries

Nobbs, Alanna Parry, Ken

Yuen-Collingridge, Rachel

PhD Philosophos, Sophistes, and related cognates: A Pre-Platonic Lexical Study

Evans, Trevor Phillips, David; Plant, Ian

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(c) HDR Degrees completed & awarded in 2010 – 7 students Burge, David PhD First century alternative

guides to life and death in the Roman East: A comparative study of Epictetus, Philo and Peter

Llewelyn, Stephen

Welborn , Laurence

Gillen, Todd PhD The year 5 inscription of Rameses III at Medinet Habu

Ockinga, Boyo Kohler, Christiana

Guerry, Eve PhD The ancient Egytian concept of 'boundary transgression'


Keenan-Jones, Duncan

PhD The Aqua Augusta: regional water supply in Roman and late antique Campania.

Hillard, Tom

Matthew, Christopher PhD A storm of spears: a reappraisal of hoplite combat

Plant, Ian Phillips, David; Lieu, Sam

Swinton, Joyce PhD The Dating Of Old Kingdom Tombs

Kanawati, Naguib

Ockinga, Boyo

Thompson, Elizabeth PhD Themes and style in wall scenes in tombs of the provincial cemetery of El-Hawawish in the old kingdom in Egypt

Kanawati, Naguib

Ockinga, Boyo

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APPENDIX 1: FURTHER DETAIL ON SELECTED PROJECTS AND RESEARCH TEAMS REFERRED TO IN THIS REPORT

1. Between two peaks: Tracing Egypt's cultural transition from the Old Kingdom to the Middle

Kingdom at Meir. Researchers: Kanawati, L. Evans, Woods. Funds were awarded to clear and record the tomb of Hepi at the site of Meir, and to examine the tombs of father and son Pepyankh-henykem/Hennit-kem (A2) and the nearby Middle Kingdom tomb of Wekh-hotep (B4). Although separated by c. 200 years, these tombs show a remarkable similarity in their wall decorations, as scenes in B4 appear to have been copied directly from those in A2 (via the use of grid lines). They thus provide evidence that Middle Kingdom artists working at Meir looked to past examples for both the content of tomb scenes and the traditionally sanctioned proportions for figures, a retrospective approach that may account for the continuity of artistic traditions, not only at Meir, but also across the country. 2. Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum (CFM) Researchers: Lieu, Mikkelsen, Parry, Greg Fox, John Sheldon. This ongoing international research project, now in its fifteenth year saw the twelfth volume going to press. Work has started on other volumes on Greek and Latin texts but the team has suffered a massive loss in the premature death of Professor John Kevin Coyle of the University of Ottawa (Canada) with whom we have very strong contacts in Australia. Professor Sam Lieu visited him in April and gave a public lecture at the university. Lieu was appointed to the prestigious Walker Ames Visiting Professorship at University of Washington at Seattle in April and he was able to lecture also at Ottawa, Stanford, UCLA and USC at Fulleton.

Parry is in the process of completing his contribution to Series Archaeologica Vol. 2: Medieval Christian and Manichaean Remains in Quanzhou. We do not expect this to volume appear before 2012 because of the book’s length and scope and complexity which necessitate a lengthy process of external assessment and checking. The project received a mark of ‘satisfaction’ at the annual assessment of the Union of International Academies. 3. China and the Ancient Mediterranean World. Researchers: Lieu, Mikkelsen, Jonathan Markley (California State University Fullerton), A/Prof.

Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa), Duncan Keenan-Jones, Gil Davis and John Sheldon. The project had an excellent first year under its ARC DP funding. The funding has enabled Lieu to visit Ottawa for collaborative research with A/Prof. Geoffrey Greatrex and LA for collaborative research with A/Prof. Jonathan Markley. He was also able to assist John Sheldon in completing the first major publication of the project. There was a serious problem over copyright issues relating to the original French edition of the texts which formed the basis of the research but these were sorted out in due course. However the time taken by the lawyers was unnecessarily long and this may result in the book appearing in early 2011 but with a 2010 date. (See under Publication). Work on Vol. 2 Commentary on the Texts by Mr John Sheldon by now also very advanced.

A/Prof. Markley is in the process of completing a monograph related to the project for the series Silk Road Studies. This is based on his much-lauded Macquarie PhD thesis. Great progress has also been made by Lieu, Sheldon and Davis on inscriptions on trade and cultural contacts and these will be available for all scholars via the project’s website (see below).

With the very able assistance and high level technical input by Dr Duncan Keenan-Jones, the project quickly established a major website ‘SERICA’ (http://www.acrc.mq.edu.au/serica/

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index.html). This has attracted a great deal of positive comments and was fundamental in helping the project to receive a mark of ‘felicitation’ (the highest) at the annual assessment of major international projects by the Union of International Academies. 4. Studia Antiqua Australiensia (SAA) Researchers: Lieu, John Sheldon, Greg Fox The main focus of this publishing project is the completion by John Sheldon of Volume 4 of the series: Texts of Greek and Latin Authors on the Far East I. Texts and Translations (to appear early 2010). See under 11. Work has begun in late 2010 on Volume 5: Aspects of the Roman East - Papers in Honour of Professor Sir Fergus Millar, Vol. 2. Two-thirds of the contributions have now been received and funding of $5000 has been approved from the Centre’s 2009 Budget to appoint Ms. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge to edit this complex manuscript which requires a great deal of Greek data-processing. 5. Gallipoli before Gallipoli Researchers: Lieu, Greg Fox (with Harvey Broadbent, Mod. History in an advisory capacity). This new project aims at producing a major website for research on the pre-1915 history of Gallipoli – a region which was famous in the Ancient and Byzantine periods as well as being the scene of a tragic clash between East and West in 1915. With the assistance of Dr Duncan Keenan-Jones, a preliminary website is likely to be launched by mid November, 2010. Prof. Lieu and Mr John Sheldon have also completed a major study of onomastics (esp. with names like the Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Cape Helles, Bulair etc.) 6. The Sohag Survey Project. Researchers: Parry, Choat The first season of survey work on monastic settlements near the White and Red Monasteries in Upper Egypt was carried out by Parry and Choat in January 2010. The second season of survey work will be undertaken in December 2010. The project is financed by a MQRDG and will provide data for an ARC DP application in 2011. 7. Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project Researchers: Ockinga, Choat, Susanne Binder From 1st December 2009 to 6th January 2010 the Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project continued its work at Dra Abu el-Naga. The team consisted of the following members: Ockinga (Director), Susanne Binder (Deputy Field Director), Judith Brophy (Senior Research Assistant), Choat (Coptic and Greek specialist), Robyn Luhrs (Conservator). The work this season was devoted to epigraphic collation and conservation in TT 147 and epigraphic recording in TT 233. TT 147 the Tomb of Neferrenpet

In TT 147 the work of conservation and epigraphic recording was continued.

1. Conservation: The work of conservation concentrated on the filling of small areas of wall loss in order to prevent any further damage, as well as the consolidation of areas of loose plaster. 2. Epigraphic Recording: The epigraphic work conducted in this season concentrated on the collation of all of the drawings made of the walls in the previous seasons (Nov-Dec 2006–2008) in

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both the Long Hall and the Broad Hall. In addition, working photographs were made of the walls to document the restoration and conservation work carried out. TT 233 the Tomb of Saroy and Amenhotep/Huy Work in the tomb of Saroy and Amenhotep/Huy concentrated on the study and documentation of the Coptic inscriptions on the northern half of the Broad Hall, as well as the Coptic ostraca and papyri and the Greek papyrus discovered in the courtyard of the tomb, now stored in the central Gurna Magazine. From 11/12/09 until 17/12/09 Choat worked in the Study Magazine at the Gurna Magazine, conserving the Greek and Coptic papyri from TT 233. Further joins were made between the papyrus fragments, particularly in the better preserved Coptic letter TT 233:341 etc and the Greek letter TT233:344 etc; other joins were also made, and the entire collection of papyrus fragments was placed between glass. Several smaller fragments of Greek papyri were also identified among the collection, showing that Greek was still used, if sparingly, during the last phase of tomb’s use. During this season Choat also worked in TT 233 collating and photographing the Coptic graffiti on the North East wall of the broad hall. Of the graffiti that are still legible, nearly all were successfully deciphered.