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In ZPE 62 (1986) 173-81, Ewa Wipszycka has presented an evaluation in some detail of a number of points central to the thesis of my article in BASP 19 (1982) 105-24 on Reli gious Conversion and Onomastic Change in Early Byzantine Egypt. Drawing on her long experience with Byzantine Egypt and her own distinguished work on the subject, she accepts, in essential, the first part of my argument (that an examination of nomenclature shows the rate of Christianization of the country), while rejecting the second (that one must multiply the number of persons in a given generation with Christian names by about 1.5 to get an ap proximation of the number of Christians). Neither point seems to me quite correct: that is, I think my analysis of the chronological distribution of Christian names needs a correction more important than any Wipszycka suggests; but her extremely interesting and valuable ar guments against the second part of the argument seem to me actually to strengthen it. None theless, one can only repeat that the quality of the results remains limited by the data at our disposition, and they have numerous drawbacks for this kind of investigation.1
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