Dr. Ella Karev is a senior lecturer in Egyptology at Tel Aviv University, specialising in the legal, social, and economic history of ancient Egypt. Her research, based on Aramaic, Greek, Demotic, and Coptic papyrological evidence, focuses on enslavement and personhood in the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman periods in Egypt. She earned her PhD in 2022 at the University of Chicago on the topic of slavery in Late Period Egypt and the book is now available through Zaphon press. Dr. Karev’s first book, which she will be discussing today, is titled “Physical Descriptions, Biometrics, and Eikonographia in Graeco-Roman Papyri from Egypt” (Brill, 2024).