Jane Rowlandson (1953 – 2018) was a British ancient historian who specialised in the economic and social history of Egypt during the Greek and Roman periods.
[4] Rowlandson's main area of research was the economic and social history of Greek and Roman Egypt.
Her 1996 monograph, based on her doctoral work, is a monumental study of the documentary evidence for landownership in Roman Egypt and has been described as "indispensable" and "invaluable".
[7] Building on this work, Rowlandson went on to conduct further research on the economic activities of women in Roman Egypt, publishing a number of articles as well as a sourcebook, which made the often difficult papyrological evidence readily accessible to students and general readers.
[8] In the years leading up to her death in 2018, Rowlandson remained an active researcher, working on two main projects: a study of the cultural history of Roman Egypt and a collection of sources on slavery in Egypt from Pharaonic to Arab times.