Claudine Dauphin (b. 1950) is a French archaeologist specialising in the

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period. She is an Honorary Professor at the

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Career

Dauphin obtained a PhD ''summa cum laude'' from the

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in 1974 presenting the thesis ''Inhabited Scrolls from the IVth to the VIIth Century A.D. in Asia Minor and the Eastern Provinces of the Byzantine Empire.'' She was a Research Fellow in Byzantine Art and Architecture at

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, from 1979 to 1983. In 1994 she obtained her

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ès-Lettres (Mention Très honorable et félicitations du jury à l'unanimité) from the

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. In 2005 she was appointed an Honorary Professor at University of Wales, Lampeter. She was elected Fellow of the

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on 2 February 2007. She was appointed an Honorary Professor in Archaeology and Theology at the

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. In 2011 she left Nice to join the 'Orient et Mediteranée' group at the

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Select publications

*Dauphin, C. 1998. ''La Palestine byzantine: peuplement et populations, Volume 1'' (BAR International 726). Oxford, ArchaeoPress *Dauphin, C. 1999. "Plenty of just enough? The diet of the rural and urban masses of Byzantine Palestine", ''Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society'' 17, 39–65. *Dauphin, C. 2005. "Sainte-Anne de Jérusalem: le projet Béthesda", ''Proche-Orient chrétien'' 55(3/4), 254–262. *Dauphin, C. 2007. "Sex and ladders in the monastic desert of late Antique Egypt and Palestine", ''Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society'' 25. *Dauphin, C. 2009. ''Eucharistic bread or thistles?: fact or fiction?; the diet of the desert fathers in late antique Egypt and Palestine''. Lampeter, Lampeter Trivium Publications (University of Wales).

References

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