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]

Biography

Margareta 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. Magareta 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 London in 1997.^[4] She was elected as an emeritus fellow of All Souls College in 2004.^[5]

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.^[6] She received the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1991.^[7]

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.

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