Csaba was educated at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, University College London and Cambridge University. He has held prestigious Research Fellowships at Oxford, Leuven, Hamburg, the Warburg Institute and Vienna, and came to Kent from a Research Fellowship at Manchester University.

His interests are wide ranging but mainly concentrate on the Hellenistic and early Roman world. His particular interests are in Papyrology and Hellenistic and Roman Egypt.

An account of agricultural produce on papyrus (meris of Polemon, Arsinoites; mid- late third century BC)

A financial account on papyrus (meris of Polemon, Arsinoites, mid- late third century BC)

Csaba has recently received a British Academy Research Grant to undertake a project entitled "Greeks, Jews and Egyptians: An Alphabetically Arranged Tax List of a Multi-Cultural Village in Ptolemaic Egypt (P.Vindob. G60514-60518)".

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Projects

Hellenistic Papyri at Vienna

Csaba is currently working with the Austrian National Library in editing papyri in their collection and with members of the international Hypereides palimpsest project based at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (USA).

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Publications

Books:

Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt, Studia Hellenistica 38 (Peeters, Leuven, Paris, Dudley, MA 2002)

Schrift, Text und Bild: Kleine Schriften von Herwig Maehler, eds. C. La'da and C. Römer (K.G. Saur, Munich 2006)

Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt, Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Band XXVIII(W. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2008)

Forthcoming

Greeks, Jews and Egyptians: An Alphabetically Arranged Tax List of a Multi-Cultural Village in Ptolemaic Egypt (P. Vindob. G 60514-60518), Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (W. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York) (joint with A. Papathomas)

Ethnic Designations and Ethnicity in Hellenistic Egypt, Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beiheft (W. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York)

Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beiheft (W. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York)

Articles, Chapters, Text-Editions, etc.

'Report on the "Symposium on Research Topics in Graeco-Roman Egypt, University College London, 8-10 July 1991"', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London 38 (1991-93) 271-72

'One Stone: Two Messages (CG 50044)', in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of Papyrologists, Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992, ed. A. Bülow-Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1994) 160-64

Review article of Ethnicity in Hellenistic Egypt, eds. P. Bilde, T. Engberg-Pedersen, L. Hannestad and J. Zahle (Aarhus 1992), TOPOI, Orient - Occident 4/1 (1994) 341-50 (Lyon)

'Ethnicity, Occupation and Tax-Status in Ptolemaic Egypt', in Acta Demotica, Acts of the Fifth International Conference for Demotists, Pisa, 4-8 September 1993 (Pisa 1994) 183-89

'Greek Ostraca from Pselkis', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996) 135-55 (Bonn) (joint with L. Rubinstein)

'Who were those 'of the Epigone'?', in Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Berlin, 13.-19.8.1995, eds. B. Kramer, W. Luppe, H. Maehler and G. Poethke, Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beiheft 3 (Stuttgart, Leipzig 1997) 563-69

'Lease of a Vineyard and Work-Contract', in Wiener Papyri als Festgabe zum 60. Geburtstag von Hermann Harrauer (P. Harrauer), ed. B. Palme (Vienna 2001) 227-32

'Ein neues Papyrusamulett mit dem Septuaginta-Psalm 30, 3d–4a', Aegyptus 81 (2001) 37-46 (Milan) (joint with A. Papathomas)

'Immigrant Women in Hellenistic Egypt: the Evidence of Ethnic Designations', in Le Rôle et le Statut de la Femme en Égypte Hellénistique, Romaine et Byzantine, Actes du Colloque International, Bruxelles - Leuven 27-29 Novembre 1997, eds. H. Melaerts and L. Mooren, Studia Hellenistica 37 (Paris, Leuven, Sterling, VA 2002) 167-92

'The Demotic Papyrus Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky', in Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies, Copenhagen, 23-27 August 1999, ed. K. Ryholt (Copenhagen 2002) 249-54

'Bemerkungen zu Papyri XV; Korr. Tyche 477-483', Tyche 17 (2002) (Vienna) 259-60

'Encounters with Ancient Egypt: the Hellenistic Greek Experience', in Encounters with Ancient Egypt: Ancient Perspectives on Egypt, eds. R. Matthews and C. Roemer (London 2003) 157-69

'A Ptolemaic Petition by a Royal Farmer Concerning the Postponement of Legal Proceedings before the Laokritai', Archiv für Papyrusforschung 49, Heft 2 (2003) 183-89 (Munich, Leipzig) (joint with A. Papathomas)

'Bemerkungen zu Papyri XVI; Korr. Tyche, 492-493', Tyche 18 (2003) 255-56 (Vienna) 'A Papyrus Fragment of a New Greek Paschal Letter', in Gedenkschrift U. Horak, eds. H. Harrauer and R. Pintaudi, Papyrologica Florentina XXXIV (Florence 2004) 9-17 (joint with A. Papathomas)

'A Greek Papyrus Amulet from the Duke Collection with Biblical Excerpts: Septuagint Psalm 90, the Heading of Psalm 91 and the Lord's Prayer with a Doxology', The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 41 (2004) (joint with A. Papathomas)

'Die wirtschaftliche Stellung der Frau im hellenistischen, römischen und byzantinischen Ägypten (332 v. Chr.-642 n. Chr.)', in Emanzipation am Nil: Frauenleben und Frauenrecht in den Papyri, Katalog zur Ausstellung im Papyrusmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, eds. H. Froschauer and H. Harrauer, Nilus, Band 11 (Vienna 2005) 35-49

'Egyiptomiak és bevándorlók: a társadalmi es kultúrális változások dinamikája a hellénisztikus Egyiptomban' ('Egyptians and Immigrants: The Dynamics of Social and Cultural Change in Hellenistic Egypt'), Antik Tanulmányok 49 (2005) 155-71 (Budapest)

'The Meaning of the Demotic Designations rmt Pr-iy-lq, rmt Yb and rmt Swn', in Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001, Papyrologica Vindobonensia 1, ed. B. Palme (Vienna 2007) 369-80

'A New Greek Petition from Hellenistic Egypt', Acta Antiqua 49 (2009) 375-82 (Budapest), reprinted in: Pietas non sola Romana, Studia memoriae Stephani Borzsák dedicata, eds. A. Czeglédy et al. (Budapest 2010) 131-38

'Homer, Odyssey V 208, 229-253', (papyrus text-edition) in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (London, in press)

'Homer, Odyssey V 430-480', (papyrus text-edition) in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (London, in press)

'A New Greek Letter from Early Ptolemaic Egypt', Acta Antiqua 50 (2010) (Budapest, in press)

Forthcoming

'Amnesty in Pharaonic Egypt', in Akten des Kolloquiums 'Vergessen und Vergeben? Amnestie in der Antike', Wien, 27.-28. Oktober 2008, eds. K. Harter-Uibopuu und F. Mitthof, Wiener Kolloquien zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)

'Amnesty in Hellenistic Egypt', in Akten des Kolloquiums 'Vergessen und Vergeben? Amnestie in der Antike', Wien, 27.-28. Oktober 2008, eds. K. Harter-Uibopuu und F. Mitthof, Wiener Kolloquien zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)

'Greek or Egyptian? The Origin of the Title Syngenes' (13,300 words), Ancient Society (Leuven)

'A Ptolemaic Enteuxis Concerning Smuggling (P. Vindob. G 60501)', P.Start (Vienna) (joint with A. Papathomas)

'A Late Hellenistic Fragment of a Tractate on Classical and Post-Classical Comedy (P. Vindob. G 14990 verso)', (joint with A. Papathomas)

'Demotic Papyrus Hamburg 39: A New Funerary Text from Roman Egypt'.

'Plural Ethnic Designations in the Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphic Epigraphic and Papyrological Source-Material from Hellenistic Egypt'.

'Notes on Greek Papyri and Inscriptions',

'New Topographical Papyri from the Byzantine Herakleopolites (P. Vindob. G 20709, 25372 and 29915)',

Reviews

Review of A. K. Bowman, Egypt after the Pharaohs; 332 BC-AD 642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquest, second paperback edition (London 1996), Discussions in Egyptology 38 (1997) 135-37 (Oxford)

Review of D. Montserrat, Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt (London, New York 1996), Discussions in Egyptology 41 (1998) 83-87 (Oxford)

Review of R. Alston, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt; A Social History, first paperback edition (London 1998), Discussions in Egyptology 43 (1999) 57-63 (Oxford)

Review of J.-Y. Empereur, Alexandria Rediscovered (London 1998), Discussions in Egyptology 45 (1999) 105-08 (Oxford)

Review of Columbia Papyri X, eds. R. S. Bagnall and D. D. Obbink (Atlanta 1996), Mnemosyne 52 (1999) 635-39 (Leiden)

Review of N. G. L. Hammond, The Genius of Alexander the Great (London 1997), Mnemosyne 52 (1999) 757-61 (Leiden)

Review of G. Vörös, Taposiris Magna, Port of Isis (Budapest 2001), Discussions in Egyptology 53 (2002) 123-29 (Oxford)

Review of J. Whitehorne, Cleopatras (London, New York 2001), Discussions in Egyptology 55 (2003) 99-105 (Oxford)

Review of Ph. de Souza, Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge 1999), Mnemosyne 56 (2003) 250-55 (Leiden)

Review of D. Kaltsas, Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites (P.Heid. VIII) (Heidelberg 2001), Tyche 18 (2003) 264-67 (Vienna)

Review of T. M. Mrsich, Rechtsgeschichtliches zur Ackerverpachtung auf Tempelland nach demotischem Formular (Vienna 2003), Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 121 (2004) 539-44 (Vienna, Weimar)

Forthcoming

Review of F. Hoffmann, Der Kampf um den Panzer des Inaros (Vienna 1996), Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (Berlin)

Review of L. E. Rose, Sun, Moon and Sothis. A Study of Calendars and Calendar Reforms in Ancient Egypt (Deerfield Beach, Fla. 1999), Mnemosyne (Leiden)

Review of C.-G. Schwentzel, Cléopâtre, Que sais-je? 3440 (Paris 1999), Discussions in Egyptology (Oxford)

Review of J. Locher, Topographie und Geschichte der Region am ersten Nilkatarakt in griechisch-römischer Zeit, Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beiheft 5 (Stuttgart, Leipzig 1999) Mnemosyne (Leiden)

Review of E. Salmenkivi, Cartonnage Papyri in Context; New Ptolemaic Documents from Abu Sir al-Malaq, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 119 (Helsinki 2002), Mnemosyne (Leiden)

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Service

Member of the Editorial Board, Acta Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

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Teaching

Csaba teaches a wide array of modules, from Egyptian hieroglyphs and writing and ancient Greek, to Hellenistic history (Modules CL550, CL585, CL586, CL589, CL631).

Csaba is interested in supervising students studying Papyrology, as well as Hellenistic history and material culture.

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Service

Csaba has supervised postgraduate students on a variety of topics in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman history and papyrology

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