Margareta Steinby


Eva Margareta Steinby FSA is a Finnish classical archaeologist. She was the director of the Finnish Institute in Rome from 1979–82 and 1992-4, and Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford from 1994-2004. She is best known for her work on the architecture and topography of Rome, especially due to her contributions to the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae.

Biography

Steinby was the assistant director and then director of the Finnish Institute in Rome. She then returned to Finland as a senior research fellow at the Academy of Finland in Helsinki. Steinby was the Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford, a post held previously by Ian Richmond and Sheppard Frere, and a fellow at All Souls College from 1994-2004. She was elected as a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1997. In 1999 she was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America. She was elected as an emeritus fellow of All Souls College in 2004.
Her major work was as the editor of the six volume multilingual reference work on the topography of Ancient Rome, the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae.
In 2007, a supplement to the Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae was published in her honour. She received the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1991.

Selected publications