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Ada Nifosì
Dr. Ada Nifosì is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Kent. She researches and writes on the social and legal status of women in the Egyptian and Greco-Roman world, as well as religious ritual, children, and toys. She earned a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Padua. In 2009 she published a book on Ptolemaic and Roman period amulets, Catalogo degli amuleti di Bakchias. Her newest monograph, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt, explores the life-cycle of women in that period. She has another book on funerary commemorations of young, unmarried women across the Mediterranean coming out soon (2025).