Fabian Lothar Walter Reiter was born in 1970 in Hannover (Germany), is married and has two sons.
Education and Qualifications
09/2018 Qualification as candidate for the function of professore ordinario (10/D4, L-ANT/05) by the Italian Ministry for Education (MIUR) for the years 2019–2028
12/2013 Qualification as candidate for the function of professore associato (10/D4, L-ANT/05) by the Italian Ministry for Education (MIUR) for the years 2014–2018
2004 Qualification as candidate for the function of Maître de conférences in the section 08 Langues et littératures anciennes in France for the years 2005–2009
2003 PhD in Ancient History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg under supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Géza Alföldy and Prof. Dr. Dieter Hagedorn. Title: „Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites im Römischen Ägypten“
1992 – 1998 Ancient History, Classical Philology and Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Magister Artium
1990 – 1992 Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Trier
1989 – 1990 Military service in Hannover-Bothfeld.
1982 – 1989 Ratsgymnasium Hannover: Abitur (A-Levels).
Professional Career
31/10/2018 – Associate professor of Papyrology (L-ANT 05) at the university of Bologna
10/2014 – 10/2018 Professor of Papyrology at the University of Trier (W2: Associate professor)
10/2006 – 09/2014 Curator of the Papyrus Collection at the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin
04/2005 – 09/2006 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) on the project Wörterbuch der griechischen Papyrusurkundenunder direction of Prof. Dr. Hans-Albert Rupprecht at the Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Papyrusforschungof the Philipps-Universität Marburg and financed by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
04/1998 – 03/2005 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Arbeitsstelle für Papyrologie, Epigraphik und Numismatikin the Institut für Altertumskunde der Universität zu Köln
Further Professional Experience
09/2015 Participation in a DigMedText Training Session at the Università degli Studi di Parma. Digital editions of 3 medical texts (BKT X 21–23)
03/2010 Participation in a workshop of Digital Papyrology (SoSol) in King’s College, London (invitation by Prof. J. Sosin). 5 digital editions (zu O.Heid. 204; 214; 225; 237 and 250) for the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP), accepted for publication
2002 – 2004 Annually participation in the excavations of the Università di Milano and the Institut Français d’Archéologie Oriental(Cairo) in Tebtynis (Egypt) under directorship of Prof. Claudio Gallazzi
1992 – 1998 Research Assistant in the project Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptensat the Institut für Papyrologieof the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelbergand on the digitization of the published papyri at Heidelberg (VBP II and IV), both under supervision of Prof. Dieter Hagedorn
Professional Offices extra muros and Service for the Scientific Community
12–13/10/2023 Nuovi Studi sui papiri bolognesi, International Conference, Aula Magna della Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna (Organizer)
2022–2025 Member of the Comité International de Papyrologie, elected by the Association international de papyrologues (AIP) on the 29th International Congress of Papyrology in Paris
01/2022– Managing Editor of the Archiv für Papyrusforschung (APF)
12/2019 – Member of the Commission for the Seminari Diletta Minutoli della Consulta Universitaria di Papirologia
12/2018 – Member of the Scientific Committee of the series Papyrotheke. Testi e studi di papirologia e cultura scrittoria antica, edited by N. Reggiani, Università degli Studi di Parma
07/2014 8th Meeting of Papyrologists in Germany (8. Deutscher Papyrologentag), Berlin (Organizer)
2010 – 2018 Editor of the two series Berliner Klassikertexte (BKT) and Berliner Griechische Urkunden (BGU), published by DeGruyter.
11/2010 – 09/2014 Founder and Director of the Berliner Papyrusdatenbank (BerlPap), since January 2012 online
2009 – Coeditor of the Archiv für Papyrusforschung (APF)
2009 – Member of the Scientific Committee of the Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia (SEP)
2008– Member of the Scientific Committee of the Chronique d’Égypte (CE)
03/09/2008 Colloquium on the Papyrus of Artemidorus, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (Coorganizer)
Anonymous Reviewer for numerous scientific journals and international foundations
Exhibitions
09–10/2023 Dall’Egitto alla via Aemilia – I papiri bolognesi raccontano …, Biblioteca dell’Università di Bologna (Coorganizer)
08–11/2010 Antiken Schriften auf der Spur – Der Papyrologe Wilhelm Schubart (1873-1960), Neues Museum Berlin (Organizer)
10/2009 – Bibliothek der Antike. Permanent papyrus exhibition, Neues Museum Berlin (Coorganizer)
03/2008 – 02/2009 Anatomie der Welt. Kunst und Wissenschaft auf dem Artemidor-Papyrus, Altes Museum Berlin – Egyptian Museum Munich (Organizer)
Grants and Awards
06–07/2024 Tytus Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. Project: New Edition of the Bologna Papyri
2019 Grant for the project Dall’Egitto alla via Aemilia: restauro, studio e prima edizione completa dei papiri bolognesi in the funding line „Internazionalizzazione“ of the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna (CARISBO)
2019 Tutor of Giulio Iovine, winner of the Marie Curie Global Fellowship (MCGF) of the European Commission for the project Latin relics in Greek Egypt
2019 Grant of the Volkswagenstiftung for the preparation of the project Preparing the Future of Papyrology in the funding line Weltwissen – Strukturelle Förderung Kleiner Fächer (declined).
05/09–23/12/2016 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton
12/01–31/12/2016 Grant from the Research-Fond of the University of Trier for developing a lexicographical project
09/07/–09/08/2010 Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati (Invitation by Prof. Getzel Cohen)
02/2010 Grant from the DFG for the Digitization of the Berlin Papyrus Collection (with Prof. Dr. D. Wildung)
01/2009 – 12/2010 Grant from the DAAD: Edition of the Berlin wax-tables with Scholia Minora, Vigoni-Project with the University of Genova (Prof. Franco Montanari and Dr. Davide Muratore)
30/03–12/06/2009 Tytus Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. Project: Edition of Ostraca from Tebtynis
Invited Lectures
01/2024 I regimi fiscali nell’Egitto romano, CEDANT – Centro di studi e ricerche sui diritti antichi, Le imposte a Roma fra città e impero: storia, economia e diritto (III sec. a.C. – III d.C.), 8–26 gennaio 2024 (Invitation by Prof. Alberto Dalla Rossa)
17/04/2023 “Indovina chi viene a cena”. Symposia a Tebtynis alla luce dei recenti scavi. Relazione nell’arco dei Seminari PNRR a cura del Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei papiri Ercolanesi ‘Marcello Gigante’ e del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici all’università Federico II (Invitation by Prof. Giuliana Leone)
03–04/2023 Come crearsi un paradiso fiscale: Storie di privilegi, concessioni personali e mazzette nell’Egitto greco-romano, Luxuria: il vizio capitale dei Romani. Convegno internazionale Roma 30 marzo – 1° aprile 2023 (Invitation by Prof. Francesca Romana Berna)
11/2022 North and South – Egypt and its Southern Neighbours in Graeco-Roman Times, Gateway to Africa, Cultural Exchanges Across the Cataracts (From Prehistory to the Mamluk Era), Cairo, November 1–3, 2022, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Università di Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum, CNRS – UMR 8167 “Orient et Mèditerranée”, ERC Horneast, Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Cairo, Austrian Archaeological Institute – Cairo (Invitation by V. Gasperini)
26/04/2022 Capire le tasse per ricostruire la storia economica - un Case Study dall’Egitto Romano, Incontri papirologici 2021/2022, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Invitation by Prof. Francesca Maltomini)
02/2020 Technical Vocabulary and Linguistic Databases: Textual encoding and linguistic annotation of literary and paraliterary texts, 3–7 February 2020, Parma Digital Papyrology / Digital Humanities Workshops, Università di Parma (Invitation by Dr. Nicola Reggiani)
09/2019 Il lessico fiscale dell’Impero romano nella provincia d’Egitto: le tasse in denaro: Il lessico politico di Roma nelle fonti greche Modalità e forme di comunicazione (Invitation by Prof. Arnaldo Marcone)
03/2019 Crimes and Misdemeanors – Tatorte und -zeiten in griechischen Papyri: χεῖρεϲ ἄδικοι. Tätliche Gewalt im griechisch-römischen Ägypten, 28–29 November 2019, Universität zu Köln (Invitation by Drs. Thomas Backhuys, Eleni Skarsouli, Riccardo Vecchiato)
12/2018 Viliora, non deteriora: il valore degli ostraka per la ricostruzione della storia dell’Egitto romano, con particolare attenzione ai testi inediti di Tebtynis: Trasmissione e conservazione dei testi nell’Antichità: cinque incontri. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Invitation by Dr. Serena Ammirati and Dr. Marco Fressura)
11/2018 Isabella Andorlini e la papirologia documentaria: Giornata di commemorazione, Università degli Studi di Udine (Invitation by Dr. Nicola Reggiani)
09/2017 The Color of Money - Überlegungen zu Ursprung und Überlieferungsgeschichte metrologischer Texte: Das Imperium Romanum als Wirtschafts- und Währungsraum in der Phase des Übergangs zur Spätantike: Umbruch, Wandel, Kontinuität in der regionalen Differenzierung des Raumes, International Conference at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Karl Strobel)
04/2017 Guess who’s coming to dinner – Gesellschaftsleben und Sozialstruktur im römischen Tebtynis im Lichte neuer Ostraka: Universität Basel (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Sabine Hübner)
05/2017 International Workshop: What to do with the fragments. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepat the University Rethymnon (Invitation by Dr. Nikos Litinas)
11/2016 ‘Libiamo ne’ lieti calici’– Symposiastic life in an Egyptian village: New ostraca from the French-Italian excavations in Tebtynis: IAS-Lunch-Seminar, Princeton (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Angelos Chaniotis)
12/2016 Yale University, Department of Classics (Invitation by Prof. Christina Kraus)
09/2015 “Testimone oculare” di Galeno? De elementis ex Hippocratis sententia in un papiro berlinese: Keynote lecture, Nona Giornata di Studio di Papirologia / International Conference: Medical Papyri in a Digital World – I papiri medici nel mondo digitale. Università degli Studi di Parma, 7–10 september 2015 (Invitation by Dr. Nicola Reggiani)
03/2015 “Questo funerale non s’ha da fare!” – impedimenti allo svolgimento di un’imbalsamazione in un nuovo papiro tolemaico: Università degli Studi di Bologna (Invitation by Prof. Lucia Criscuolo)
05/2013 Die Wirtschaftskrisen unter Hadrian und Antoninus Pius und der Arsinoites: 5th International Fayum-Conference Leipzig (Invitation by Dr. Nadine Quenouille)
11/2011 P.B.U.G. 255: A Cession of Part of a House and Plots of Land (Bakchias; ca. 155/6 CE): Prime edizioni e revisioni di papiri greci – I papiri inediti delle collezioni di Giessen. Tavola rotonda degli editori (Invitation by Dr. Giuseppina Azzarello)
05/2011 Neues zu den Nomarchen des Arsinoites: Das Fayum in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit, Kloster Bronnbach (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Martin Stadler and Dr. Carolin Arlt).
16/07/2011 6. Deutscher Papyrologentag, Trier (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kramer)
03/2008 Byzantinische Papyri aus Oxyrhynchos in Berlin: Potere e ricchezza nell’Egitto bizantino. Incontro internazionale di studio, University of Udine (Invitation by Dr. Giuseppina Azzarello)
05/2007 Zum Ziegeleimonopol im Fayum: Graeco-Roman Fayum - Texts and Archeology. Third International Fayum Symposion, Freudenstadt (Invitation by Dr. Maren Schentuleit and Dr. Sandra L. Lippert)
06/2005 Ostraka inediti di Bakchias: International Meeting of Egyptology and Papyrology: “New Archaeological and Papyrological Researches on the Fayyum”, Lecce, 8–10 June 2005 (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Mario Capasso).
12/2003 Symposia in Tebtynis – Zu den griechischen Ostraka aus den neuen Grabungen in Tebtynis: Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos. Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum. Internationales Symposion vom 11. bis 13. Dezember 2003 in Sommerhausen bei Würzburg (Invitation by Dr. Sandra L. Lippert and Dr. Maren Schentuleit).
10/2004 Klagenfurter Papyrologentag, 29.–30. Okt. 2004 (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Karl Strobel).
12/2004 Kolloquium ‘Griechisch-Römisches Ägypten’, Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften der Universität Trier (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kramer).
04/1999 Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites - Stellung in der Gauverwaltung und soziales Milieu: Forschungszentrum Griechisch-Römisches Ägypten der Universität Trier (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kramer).
Conference Papers
07/2022 ‘Dall’Egitto alla via Aemilia: restauro, studio e prima edizione completa dei papiri bolognesi’, XXXe Congres international de papyrologie, Collège de France, Paris, 25–30 juillet 2022
08/2019 Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Ninos-Roman? Ein Blick auf die Rückseite der Berliner Fragmente, 29th International Congress of Papyrology, Università del Salento, 28.7–3.8.2019
08/2016 ‘Daddy finger, where are you’ – Zu den Fingerbezeichnungen in den Signalements der römischen Kaiserzeit: 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, 1–6 August 2016
11/2012 Boni pastoris esse tondere pecus, non deglubere – Zu den Steuerstundungen unter Hadrian und Antoninus Pius: 2. Österreichischer Papyrologentag, Universität Klagenfurt
08/2010 Die Berliner Sammlung im Deutschen Papyruskartell (with H. Essler): 26th International Congress of Papyrology, Geneva
08/2010 Scholia Minora auf Wachstafeln der Berliner Papyrussamlung: Ein deutsch-italienisches Editionsprojekt (with F. Montanari and D. Muratore): 26th International Congress of Papyrology, Geneva
09/2009 New Ostraca from Tebtynis: Dakhleh Oasis Project, Sixth International Conference, University of Salento, Lecce
08/2007 Ein griechisches Ostrakon aus Pergamon: XXVth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, Michigan
08/1998 Die arsinoitischen Nomarchen im römischen Ägypten: XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia, Firenze, 23–29 agosto 1998
08/1995 Medizinische Rezepte auf einem Heidelberger Papyrus: 21. Internationaler Papyrologenkongreß, Berlin, 13.–19. 8. 1995.
Teaching Experience
A) Regular Courses
2018/19 – Bologna University, four annual courses of 30 hours each:
Storia della scrittura e dei documenti papiracei
Storia e cultura nei papiri
Papirologia (triennale)
Laboratorio Telemaco
2014/5 (winter term) – 2018 (summer term), Trier University
Responsible for the Master in Papyrology (four courses, 9 hrs / week)
2014 (summer term), HU Berlin
Teaching assignment: Greek Epigrams (seminar, 2 hrs / week)
2013/4 (winter term), HU Berlin
Teaching assignment, Reading course: Herodas, Mimiambs (2 hrs / week)
2010 (summer term) and 2010/1 (winter term), Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection
Papyrological Colloquium (1,5 hrs / week)
2005/6 (winter term), University of Udine
Language Course: Tedesco per umanisti (German for Philologists, 20 hours)
2005 (summer term), University of Cologne
Introduction into Papyrology (2 hrs / week)
1999 (summer term) – 2000 (summer term), University of Trier
Three teaching assignments for papyrological seminars and a reading courses (Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, each one 2 hrs / week).
1998 (summer term) – 2004/5 (winter term), University of Cologne
Latin for beginners (6 hrs / week)
B) Occasional Lectures on Invitation
07/2024 Papyrological Archives and Dossiers, Summer Institute in Papyrology, Florence, July 1–26, 2024 (Invitation by Prof. Francesca Maltomini)
20–25/09/2021 Roman Papyri, Papyrological Autumn School at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger)
17–18/06/2020 A New Byzantine Papyrus from the Medicea Laurenziana Library in Florence, Workshop Online via Teams, Università degli Studi di Udine (Invitation by Prof. Giuseppina Azzarello)
21–22/03/2018 Seminars for advanced students (10 hrs) as Visiting Professor (Erasmus), Università degli Studi di Padova (Invitation by Prof. Silvia Strassi)
09/12/2017 ‘Viliora, non deteriora’: il valore degli ostraka per la ricostruzione della storia dell’Egitto romano, con particolare attenzione ai testi inediti di Tebtynis, seminar in the Scuola estiva papirologica, Università degli Studi di Firenze (2 hrs, invitation by Prof. Daniela Manetti)
11/10/2011 P. Berol. inv. 13278: An Unpublished Greek Parchment with Grammatical Contents. Advanced seminar for degree candidates in Italian at the University of Udine (2 hrs, invitation by Prof. F. Vendruscolo)
05/24/2008 The Ostraca of the New Excavations in Tebtynis. Papyrological Lecture for PhD Students at the University of Trieste (in Italian; 2 hrs, invitation by Dr. Silvia Strassi)
11/26/2004 An unpublished Customs Receipt from the Yale Collection (PCtYBR inv. 1107). Seminar in Italian at the University of Udine (2 hrs, invitation by Prof. Franco Maltomini)
Supervision and Examination of PHD Candidates
Cecilia Mambrioni, Dissertation in Scienze storiche e archeologiche, Università di Bologna, 2024: Il discorso diretto nella documentazione epistolare privata (supervisor)
Sara Marmai, Dissertation in Papyrologia, Trier University, 2024: Edition von 39 dokumentarischen Fragmenten der Trierer Papyrussammlung (supervisor and first examinator)
Antonio Stornaiuoli, Dissertation in Scienze Storiche, Archeologiche, Filologiche, Università degli Studi di Messina, 2023: Su alcune imposte secondarie nell’Egitto del IV secolo d.C. Riesaminare la documentazione fiscale alla luce delle informazioni economiche (member of evaluation commission)
Anna Arpaia, Dissertation in Scienze storiche, Università degli studi di Firenze, 2019: Gli Alessandrini e le loro proprietà nella prima età imperiale (member of evaluation commission).
Lucia Colella, Dissertation in Scienze storiche, archeologiche e storico-artistiche, Università degli studi di Napoli “Filippo II”, 2019: La boule ad Arsinoe nel III secolo d.C. (member of evaluation commission)
Jens Mangerud, Dissertation in Filologia Classica, Università di Oslo, 2018: New Perspectives on Life in Roman Egypt from the Oslo Papyrus Collection (with editions of selected documentary papyri from the 1934 acquisition) (member of the evaluation commission, first examinator)
Anna Monte, Disserrtation in Filologia Classica, HU Berlin, 2018: Aspekte der griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Gesellschaft im Niltal im Licht der Papyri: Erstedition von fünfzehn griechischen Papyrustexten der Berliner Papyrussammlung (supervisor, member of the evaluation commission)
Valeria Tezzon, Dissertation in Filologia Classica, HU Berlin, 2017: The Sympotic Songs of Elephantine (P. Berol. 13270) (member of the evaluation commission, second examiner)
Marcin Kotyl, Dissertation in Filologia Classica, Wrocław University, 2017: A Rough Draft Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collections. An Edition with Translation and Commentary (member of the evaluation commission, second examiner)
Francesca Corazza, Dissertation in Filologia Classica, HU Berlin, 2016: Die medizinischen Papyri von Antinoopolis: Eine Fallstudie zur spätantiken Medizin (member of the evaluation commission, second examiner)
Cindy Werner, Dissertation in Papirologia, Università di Treviri, 2016: Edition einer ptolemäischen Verwaltungsurkunde zur Stellenbesetzung und Besoldung (P.UB Trier S 125-04+05) (member of the evaluation commission)
