Yoshiyuki Suto


	Yoshiyuki Suto is Professor of Ancient History and academic staff of the Center for the Cultural Heritage and Texts (CHT) at Nagoya University. After studying prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean in Athens on the scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY) he earned his doctorate in archaeology at the University of Tokyo in 1992. He joined Akoris Archaeological Project in 1997, and since then he has been working in Middle Egypt in order to elucidate the history of the local society under the Ptolemaic rule. His research interests include the Hellenistic maritime trade, Greek epigraphy in Hellenistic Egypt, and labor organization in the Hellenistic limestone quarries on the Nile.

Yoshiyuki Suto is Professor of Ancient History and academic staff of the Center for the Cultural Heritage and
Texts (CHT) at Nagoya University. After studying prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean in Athens on the
scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY) he earned his doctorate in archaeology
at the University of Tokyo in 1992. He joined Akoris Archaeological Project in 1997, and since then he has been
working in Middle Egypt in order to elucidate the history of the local society under the Ptolemaic rule. His
research interests include the Hellenistic maritime trade, Greek epigraphy in Hellenistic Egypt, and labor
organization in the Hellenistic limestone quarries on the Nile.