Richard William Benet Salway is a senior lecturer in

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

. His areas of speciality include Greek and Roman

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

and

onomastics Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use. An ''alethonym'' ('true name') or an ''orthonym'' ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onom ...

Roman law Roman law is the law, legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (), to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law also den ...

, Roman Imperial history and travel and geography in the Graeco-Roman world.

Biography

Salway attended

The Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassi ...

, where he received his DPhil in 1995. He was part-time tutor in Ancient History at

St Anne's College, Oxford St Anne's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959. Originally a women's college, it has admitted men since 1979. ...

and part-time lecturer in Classics at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

1993–94 and temporary lecturer in Ancient History at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

1994–95. He was then at

as post-doctoral research fellow on the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

Arts and Humanities Research Board The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive range of me ...

-funded ''Projet Volterra: Law and Empire'' from 1995 to 1999. He was lecturer in Classics at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

1999–2001 and moved back to

in 2001 as lecturer in Ancient History. In 2007 he was promoted to senior lecturer. In 2005 he became a director of ''Projet Volterra II: Law and the End of Empire''. Salway has held several other positions at

: elected non-professorial representative on the Academic Board 2002–05 and since 2006, elected non-professorial member of the Academic Committee 2004–05, elected non-professorial member of Council since 2006, non-professorial member of the Nominations Committee since 2007, member of the Academic Committee Sub-Committee on Probation since 2008, and non-professorial member of the Governance Committee since 2009. He was also secretary of the British Epigraphy Society 1999–2004 and a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 2002–05 and has been a member of the

Institute of Classical Studies The Institute of Classical Studies is a research institution associated with the University of London and a member of the School of Advanced Study. The institute is a national and international research institute in the languages, literature, hi ...

Library Committee since 2001 and Finance Committee since 2008.

Gregorian Code discovery

In 2010 the Volterra database was used by Corcoran and Salway to identify previously unknown fragments of the Gregorian Code. The "Fragmenta Londiniensia" are seventeen pieces of parchment estimated to date from AD400, the document having been cut up and re-used as book-binding material. This is the first original evidence yet discovered of the Gregorian Codex.

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Gregorian Code discovery

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