Margareta Steinby

Eva Margareta Steinby FSA (born 21 November 1938) is a Finnish classical archaeologist. She was the director of the Finnish Institute in Rome from 1979–82 and 1992-4, and Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire [1] at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford from 1994-2004.[2] She is best known for her work on the architecture and topography of Rome, especially due to her contributions to the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (1993-2000).[3]

Eva Margareta Steinby

FSA
Born(1938-11-21)21 November 1938
NationalityFinnish
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Doctoral studentsRubina Raja

Biography

Steinby was the assistant director (1973–77) and then director (1979–82, 1992–94) of the Finnish Institute in Rome. She then returned to Finland as a senior research fellow at the Academy of Finland in Helsinki. Steinby was the Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford, a post held previously by Ian Richmond and Sheppard Frere, and a fellow at All Souls College from 1994-2004. She was elected as a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1997.[4] In 1999 she was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.[5] She was elected as an emeritus fellow of All Souls College in 2004.[6]

Her major work was as the editor of the six volume multilingual reference work on the topography of Ancient Rome, the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. In 2007, a supplement to the Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae was published in her honour.[7] She received the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1991.[8]

Selected publications
  • Steinby, M. 1974. I bolli laterizi degli antiquari del Foro e del Palatino. Roma : Accademia nazionale dei Lincei.
  • Steinby, M. 1974. La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane dalla fine dell'età repubblicana fino all'inizio del iii sec. Bullettino, Comm. arch. comunale di Roma. Spoleto.
  • Steinby, M. 1986. L'industria laterizia di Roma nel tardo impero. In A. Giardina. Società romana e impero tardoantico. Vol. 2: Roma: Politica, Economia, Paesaggio Urbano. Editori laterza. pp. 99–164.
  • Steinby, M. 2003. La Necropoli della Via Triumphalis Roma.

References
  1. "SteinbyMargareta < Uppslagsverket < TWiki". Uppslagsverket.fi. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  2. "History of the Institute - School of Archaeology - University of Oxford". Arch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  3. Boatwright, M. 2009. Review of Leone et al. 2007. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.08.22
  4. "Prof Eva Margareta Steinby, FSA Authorised Biography - Debrett's People of Today". Debretts.com. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  5. "Corresponding Members - Archaeological Institute of America". www.archaeological.org. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  6. "All Souls College, Oxford". All-souls.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  7. Leone et al. 2007. Res bene gestae : ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby. Roma : Quasar.
  8. "Prof Eva Margareta Steinby, FSA Authorised Biography - Debrett's People of Today". Debretts.com. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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