Prof. Alan K. Bowman MA, PhD (Tor) FBA
Camden Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Classics
Fellow, Brasenose College
Director, Vindolanda Writing Tablets
Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Brasenose College
Oxford,
OX1 4AJ
Tel: (01865) 277874
alan.bowman@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Roman History and Papyrology
Selected Recent Publications
1994: The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (with J. D. Thomas), Tabulae Vindolandenses II British Museum Press.1999: 'Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times' (with E. Rogan), Proceedings of the British Academy 96, Oxford.
2000: 'Urbanization in Roman Egypt', in Romanization and the City. Creation, transformations and failures ( ed. E. Fentress), Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement, 38, 173-87.
2000: Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 11 'The High Empire' (with P.D.A. Garnsey, D.W.Rathbone), Cambridge.
2002: 'Recolonising Egypt,' in Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. T.P.Wiseman, British Academy, 193-224.
2003: Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier. Vindolanda and its People (New edition), British Museum Press, London.
2003: The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses III) (with J.D.Thomas), British Museum Press, London, III.