Greek Personal Names in Egypt

Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change. The work explores naming practices and their intersection with the social and cultural history of Egypt over a long chronological span, foreign names, and cross-cultural exchanges. It also explores current research questions and future directions in onomastic studies in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. The papers offer a range of different perspectives and approaches in the field, with contributions by specialists from the fields of Greek Papyrology, Egyptology, Coptology and Ancient History.

Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Project Curator, Department of Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum,Yanne Broux, Trismegistos+ Core Facility Coordinator, KU Leuven

Adrienn Almásy-Martin is currently a departmental lecturer in Egyptology and the lead researcher for the Egyptian phase of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, University of Oxford. She studied Egyptology and Classical Greek at ELTE, Budapest; she has a PhD in Egyptology at EPHE, Paris. Her main areas of research are in Demotic and Greek documentary and Demotic funerary texts from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods with a special interest in onomastic studies and language interaction.


Yanne Broux is a senior research fellow at Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org) at the department of ancient history of KU Leuven. She studied Ancient History and Assyriology at KU Leuven and has a PhD in History at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on onomastics and identification in the ancient world, while occasionally becoming side-tracked by subjects such as land management in Roman Egypt or the students (and their names) of the Old University of Leuven. She coordinates TM People, the onomastic-prosopographic section of Trismegistos, and is responsible for the upkeep of its online environment.

Introduction, Alan Bowman1. Greek Names in Egypt: An Overview Based on TM People, Yanne Broux2. New Rulers, New Names: Greek Names of Egypt, Willy Clarysse and Dorothy J. Thompson3. Demotic Rendering of Greek Names: A Study Based on LGPN Data from Lower Egypt and the Fayum, Adrienn Almásy-Martin4. The Adoption of Greek Names by Idumaeans in Ptolemaic Egypt as Evidence for Acculturation (CPI 1 202), Rachel Mairs5. Naming Practices in the Jewish Communities of Egypt, Sylvie Honigman6. Hybrid Names: Onomastics, Power and Identity in a Cross-Cultural Context, Nico Dogaer7. Egyptian Cross-gender Names in Graeco-Roman Dime and Beyond, Maren Schentuleit8. Onomastics and Classical Culture in Egypt's Western Oases, Roger S. Bagnall9. Greek and Other Names in Coptic, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer