Eva Margareta Steinby FSA (born 21 November 1938; Wilén until 1961) is a Finnish

classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about ...

. She was the director of the Finnish Institute in Rome from 1979–1982 and 1992–1994, and Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the Institute of Archaeology,

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from 1994 to 2004. She is best known for her work on the architecture and topography of

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, especially due to her contributions to the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (1993-2000).

Biography

Steinby was assistant director (1973–1977) and then director (1979–1982, 1992–1994) of the Finnish Institute in Rome. She then returned to Finland as senior research fellow at the

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. Steinby was Professor of Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford, a post held previously by Ian Richmond and

Sheppard Frere Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA (23 August 1916 – 26 February 2015) was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire. He was a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Biography The son of Noel Gray Frere, of the ...

, and fellow at

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from 1994–2004. She was elected member of the

Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters is a Finnish academy for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is known in Latin as Societas Scientiarum Fennica, in Swedish as Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, and in Finnish as Suome ...

in 1983 and Honorary member in 2020. She was elected member of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1997. In 1999 she was elected Corresponding Member of the

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. She was elected emeritus fellow of

in 2004. 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.Leone et al. 2007. ''Res bene gestae: Ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby.'' Roma: Quasar. She received the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1991.

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

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