The Society’s Annual General Meeting for members will take place on 5 November 2022, 2:30 p.m.\u00a0After the meeting, at 3:30, Dr Amin Benaissa, Tutor in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from October Associate Professor of Papyrology at Christ Church) will speak on “Mary Elizabeth Dicker: Britain’s first woman papyrologist”, whose contribution to the development of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection has been largely forgotten. As A.S.\u00a0Hunt\u2019s assistant from 1929 to 1933, she sorted through a large amount of Oxyrhynchus papyri and transcribed and identified a number of important pieces during that short period.<\/p>\n
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