Sarah Clackson

Memorial plaque for Sarah Clackson on the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Sarah Jane Clackson (* as Sarah Joanne Quinn December 11, 1965 in Leicester , † August 10, 2003 in Cambridge ) was a British papyrologist and coptologist .

Clackson attended school in Loughborough , where she met her future husband. At Cambridge University she first studied Classical Philology , then Egyptology . At University College London , it was 1996 W. John Tait with the work Coptic documents Relating to the monasteries of Apa Apollo at Bawit and Titkooh in the Hermopolite nome doctorate. She died of cancer in 2003 at the age of 37. At the time she was a Lady Wallis Budge Research Fellow at Christ's College , Cambridge; In 2004 she was to go to Heidelberg University as a guest lecturer . She left behind her husband, her colleague James Clackson , whom she married in 1991. She bequeathed her private library on coptology to the University of Warsaw , her documents and photos were given to the Griffith Institute at Oxford University . A conference was held in September 2004 in her memory. She has a plaque on the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge, where Clackson was buried.

Initially, Clackson worked in the field of Egyptology, but then dealt mainly with Coptic papyrology . The Apa Apollo monastery in Bawit became the central point of their work . In 2000 she published a monograph with Greek and Coptic texts on the monastery. Another volume combined 90 other Coptic texts and made them known in the professional world. Through her studies she was able to make life and economic life in the monastery more understandable. In addition, Clackson ordered the manuscripts, among other things, the Cambridge University Library . She worked in almost all the major Coptic papyrus collections in Europe and North America.

Fonts

• Coptic documents relating to the monasteries of Apa Apollo at Bawit and Titkooh in the Hermopolite nome. University of London, London 1996.
• with Samuel NC Lieu: Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Volume I: Texts from the Roman Empire (Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Latin). Brepols, Turnhout 1998, ISBN 978-2-503-50819-1 .
• It Is Our Father Who Writes. Orders from the Monastery of Apollo at Bawit (= American Studies in Papyrology. Vol. 43). David Brown Book Company, Cincinnati 2008, ISBN 978-0-9700591-5-4 .

literature

• Petra M. Sijpesteijn: Sarah Jane Clackson (1965-2003). In: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology. No. 33, 2003, pp. 9-14.
• Anne Bouvarel-Boud'hors et al. a. (Ed.): Monastic estates in late antique and early Islamic Egypt. Ostraca, papyri, and essays in memory of Sarah Clackson (P. Clackson). American Society of Papyrologists, Cincinnati 2009, ISBN 978-0-9700591-8-5 .

Web links

• Obituary on the website of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues (English)