Todd Hickey
Associate Professor/Director, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

Papyrology (Greek and Egyptian), social and economic history, Late Antiquity, Lucian
A.B. 1990 (University of Pennsylvania), A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 2001 (University of Chicago)

Groups: Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

Contact information

Office: 489 Bancroft Library
Email: thickey@library.berkeley.edu
Office phone: (510) 642-4556
Fax: (510) 643-4313

Office hours: Spring 2014: Tuesdays, 12:00–1:30., Other hours by appointment.

Web site: http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu

Mailing address:
The Bancroft Library #6000
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Selected publications

Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt: The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus (Ann Arbor 2012); preview here.

"The workers and the vineyard (P.Lond. inv. 2238)," Archiv für Papyrusforchung 58 (2012) 302-7; full text here.

"A Surety for an enapographos," in Inediti offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65° compleanno (Florence 2012) 90-95 (with Fabian Reiter); full text here.

"The Dossier of Flavia Anastasia, Part One: Document Prescripts," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011) 99-112 (with Brendan J. Haug).

"A penthēmeros Certificate from the Reign of Caracalla (P.Lund inv. 12)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 178 (2011) 240-42.

"A Private Extract from a Weaver's Census Return (P.Lund inv. 77)," Comunicazioni (Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli") 9 (2011) 57-60.

"Ostraca Upsaliensia (Part I)," Archiv für Papyrusforschung 56 (2010) 258–73; full text here.

"Two Papyri in Lund," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009) 31–36; full text here.

"Writing Histories from the Papyri," in Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford 2009) 495–520; full text here.

"Tebtunis on the Arno and Beyond: Two 'Archives,'" in 100 anni di istituzioni fiorentine per la papirologia (Florence 2009) 67–81; full text here.

"Down and Out in Late Antique Tebtunis?” in Graeco-Roman Fayum – Texts and Archaeology (Wiesbaden 2008) 135–42; full text here.

"An Inconvenient Truth? P.Oxy. 18.2196, the Apion estate, and fiscalité in the late antique Oxyrhynchite," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 45 (2008) 87–100; full text here.

"A Late Antique Miscellany," in Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Leiden 2008) 343–50; full text here.

"Papyrology," in Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford 2008) 115–28; full text here.

"Aristocratic Landholding and the Economy of Byzantine Egypt," in Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700 (Cambridge 2007) 288–308; full text here.

"Un frammento delle Storie di Erodoto (I 59, 6 – 60, 1; I 60, 4) in PCair JE 45623," Studi di Egittologia e di papirologia 4 (2007) 73–76 (with Mario Capasso); full text here.

Five texts in volume seventy of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, London 2006 (with Nikolaos Gonis); full text here.

POPULAR: "The Tebtunis Papyri," in Exploring The Bancroft Library, Berkeley-Salt Lake City 2006, 138–45 (with a contribution by Dorothy J. Thompson); full text here.

"A New Fragment from the Apion Dossier in New Haven (P.CtYBR inv. 4357)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004) 165–66; full text here.

"P.Lond. V 1876 descr.: Which Landowner?" Chronique d’Égypte 79 (2004) 241–48 (with James G. Keenan); full text here.

"A Roman-Period Cession of Residential Property from Soknopaiou Nesos (P.Mich. inv. 6168 + inv. 6174c + inv. 6174a+b)," in Res severa verum gaudium: Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004 (Leuven 2004) 237–47 (with Joseph G. Manning); full text here.

REVIEW: Jaakko Frösén, Antti Arjava, and Marjo Lehtinen, eds., The Petra Papyri I (Amman 2002), Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 334 (May 2004) 92–94; full text here.

"Reuniting Anastasia:  P.bibl.univ.Giss. 56 + P.Erl. 87," Archiv für Papyrusforschung 49 (2003) 199–206; full text here.

"A Flavia Christodotê Fragment from Giessen (P.bibl. univ. Giss. inv. 63)," in Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas (Oakville 2001) 251–54 (with James G. Keenan); full text here.

"P.Lond. V 1797: Classification and Date," in Papyri in honorem Johannis Bingen octogenarii editae (Leuven 2000) 529–35 (with James G. Keenan); full text here.

"Dumbarton Oaks," in Der neue Pauly: Reallexikon der Antike und ihrer Rezeption, Volume 13 (Stuttgart 1999) columns 904–10; full text here.

"Notes on Some Papyri from the Byzantine Oxyrhynchite," Tyche 14 (1999) 325–27; full text here.

"Notes on Some Cairo Papyri from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus (Part I)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998) 161–64; full text here.

"The Dossier of Patermouthios sidêrourgos: New Texts from Chicago," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 79–109 (with Klaas A. Worp); full text here.

"More from the Archive of the Descendants of Eulogius," Analecta Papyrologica 8–9 (1996–97) 209–18 (with James G. Keenan); full text here.

"P.Oxy. X 1323 descr.: A Receipt for the Rent of an orbiopôleion," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996) 227–29; full text here.

"A Fragment of a Letter from a Bishop to a scholastikos," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996) 127–31; full text here.

Personal statement

At the moment, I am writing (inter alia) a "collective biography" of the crocodile priests of Tebtunis.

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