<div dir="ltr"><div>That's so sad, Alice; I can't really believe it.  I'd not seen Sabine for some time but she was always so lively, kind, and supportive. She'll be a massive loss in so many ways.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for letting us all know.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wZ70_Tq4JVS8XmcFHON-NRjlyIRc4saMo3YblLEmPfAVg4CXo_bOCX0u28EpNBit-HpQZvHWl4wMul" width="420" height="168"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Dr Steven P Ashby, FSA SFHEA</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Chair of Board of Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Reader, </span>Dept of Archaeology</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">University of York</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology" target="_blank">www.york.ac.uk/archaeology</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">ORCiD: </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1420-2108" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1420-2108</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:121px;height:76px"><img src="https://lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com/bAJ4Azmq06fTVymeXvxf574Y_aV16gQltKeVakpKum3NGlfQdyHNRq-s51bCg6UFC1LLDbGvF_sDPbMF2L4Ie2Yffq7qACVW7zC2gcIRxnlhI0gvnVwxd7CrFKWDBxOTXntOO6rAlZsVNv6yOVHSIGk" width="121" height="79.37444354120697" style="margin-left:0px"> </span></span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Series Editor, <i><a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-series/viking-europe" target="_blank">Viking Europe</a>, </i>LUP</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xRamIsXC0U9h5GlCY2ExBAnKEf6I2R2eAnc5v1G8lSP2NXJNM8KcsqhImoxHRMrmB8fPHDUx0"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">.</p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please see the University of York's </span><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/about/legal-statements/email-disclaimer/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">e-mail disclaimer</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <br></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 22:14, Alice Choyke <<a href="mailto:choyke@gmail.com">choyke@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">    I have learned that our colleague, Sabine Deschler-Erb, has died after a long illness. Sabine was a full and very active professor in the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She worked in a number of research areas as a zooarchaeologist, focused on Roman Studies,  notably including Roman worked bone. Until several years ago, Sabine was a long-time editor at <i>Instrumentum, </i>a journal dealing with ancient technology and particularly worked bone. For her PhD she studied bone tool manufacturing from Roman Augusta Raurica and produced a two volume,seminal study of these several thousands of objects. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">      Most of all, she was a hard-working, kind person with a very positive outlook on life. It is very difficult for me to imagine the laboratory at the University of Basel without her. Her death is a personal loss and a loss for scholarly work on the European part of the Roman Empire.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Alice Choyke</div></div>
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