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Rodney Ast is Academic Director in the Institute for Papyrology at Heidelberg University. His research interests include Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy, the administrative and social history of Greco-Roman Egypt, and Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade. He is co-director of excavations at Berenike on Egypt's Red Sea coast.

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Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 3 presents 232 new or re-edited texts from the excavations conducted at the site of Amheida (Trimithis in the Roman period and Setwah in earlier times). In addition to the Greek texts, which are predominantly from the 2014 and 2015 field seasons, this volume also includes editions of Demotic and Hieratic ostraka found between 2004 and 2015, as well as miscellaneous inscriptions and graffiti and the first detailed presentation of all ostraka that contain drawings.