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Author Guide

In most cases, the time from submission to decision for articles submitted to the American Journal of Archaeology is from four to six months.

Submissions should not exceed 20,000 words, including abstract, article body, works cited, notes, and figure captions.

All submissions should follow the AJA Policy on the Publication and Citation of Unprovenanced Antiquities.

Author warranties, a permissions form template, checklists, and figure preparation guidelines are available in Supporting Material.

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Rebecca R. Benefiel

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Rebecca R. Benefiel is associate professor of classics at Washington & Lee University and specializes in Latin epigraphy and Roman social history. Educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, L’Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” and Harvard University, she is a fellow of the American Academy at Rome and was the 2008–2009 recipient of the Olivia James Traveling Fellowship from the Archaeological Institute of America. She coedited the volume Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (Leiden and Boston 2016) and is director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.