Monographs
Ashton, S-A. (2013). 6000 Years of African Combs. Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum.
Ashton, S-A. & Massing. J.M. (2011) Triumph Protection and Dreams: East African Headrests in Context. Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum.
Ashton, S-A. (2008). Cleopatra and Egypt. Oxford: Blackwells.
Walker, S. & Ashton, S-A. (2006). Cleopatra. London: Duckworth Press.
Ashton, S-A. (2004). Roman Egyptomania. London: Golden House Press.
Ashton, S-A. (2003). Petrie’s Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis. London: Institute of Archaeology.
Ashton, S-A. (2003). The Last Queens of Egypt. UK: Pearson.
Ashton, S-A. (2001). Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Egypt: The Interaction between Greek and Egyptian traditions. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Edited Volumes
Ashton, S-A. (2013). Origins of the Afro comb. Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum.
Walker, S. & Ashton, S-A. (2003). Cleopatra Reassessed. The British Museum Twenty- Fifth Classical Colloquium Papers. London: British Museum Press.
Book Chapters
Ashton, S-A. & Betts, J., (2023). Combs from Kemet. Exploring the potential of ancient Egyptian material culture for working with incarcerated communities In J. Thum, et al. eds. Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice. New York: Routledge.
Ashton, S-A. (2020). Prospecitons géophysiques sure le site de Smouha et essai d’identificaiton des statues colossales. Cahiers de Mariemont. Alexandrie 41, 73-85.
Ashton, S-A. (2014). Limestone and plaster royal sculpture of the late and Ptolemaic periods in the Fitzwilliam Museum. In Dodson, A.M., Johnston, J.J. and Monkhouse, W. eds. A good scribe and an exceedingly wise man. Studies in Honour of W.J. Tait. Golden House Press Egyptology 21, 7-23.
Ashton, S-A. (2014). Kleopatra: eine africanishe Königen? In Kleopatra die ewige diva. Kunst ud Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bonn: Firmer, 34-45.
Ashton, S-A. (2011). Ancient Egyptian hair combs in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In D. Aston et al. eds. Under the potter’s tree Studies on Ancient Egypt presented to Janine Bourriau on the occasion of her 70th birthday. OLA 204, 19-44.
Ashton, S-A. (2011). Cleopatra Queen of Egypt’, in M.M. Miles ed. Cleopatra. A Sphinx Revisited. Berkley: University of California Press, 21-36.
Ashton, S-A. (2010). Uses and Abuses of Ptolemaic sculpture in Rome. In F. Macfarlane and C. Morgan eds. Exploring Ancient Sculpture. Essays in honour of Geoffrey Waywell. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 213-23.
Ashton, S-A. (2001). The Egyptian iconography of the Ptolemaic Queens. In S. Walker and P. Higgs eds. Cleopatra of Egypt. From History to Myth. London: British Museum Press, 148-155.
Conference volumes
Ashton, S-A. (2011). Curating Kemet: Fear of a Black Land?. In K. Exell ed. Egypt in its African Context. Oxford: Archaeopress, 105-114.
Ashton, S-A. (2008). ‘Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis as a production centre’ in M. Martinón-Torres and T. Rehren eds. Archaeology, History and Science. London: UCL Press, 101-116.
Ashton, S-A. & Hughes, M.J. (2005). Large late and local? The Analysis of late Classical and Hellenistic pottery types from Woolley’s excavations at Al Mina. In A. Villing ed. The Greeks in the East. London. The British Museum, 93-104.
Ashton, S-A. (2005). The double and triple uraeus and Egyptian royal women. In A. Cooke and F. Simpson eds. Current Research in Egyptology 2. Oxford: Archaeopress, 1-10.
Ashton, S-A. (2004). Ptolemaic Alexandria and the Egyptian Tradition. In A. Hirst and M. Silk eds. Alexandria. Real and Imagined. Centre for Hellenic Studies King’s College London publication 5, 15-40.
Ashton, S-A. (2004). Egyptian sculptors’ models: fashion and function in Dynasty 18. MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge: The Social Context of Technological Change II. Egypt, the Aegean and the near East, 1650-1150 BC. Eds. J. Bourriau and J. Philips (Oxford, Oxbow): 182-204.
Ashton, S-A. (2003). Goddess, ruler or regent? Cleopatra VII and the Egyptian tradition. In S. Walker and S-A. Ashton eds. Cleopatra Reassessed, The British Museum Twenty Fifth Classical Colloquium Papers. London: The British Museum Press, 25-30.
Ashton, S-A. (2003). Faience and the Ptolemaic royal cults: further fragments and thoughts. In N. Bonacasa et al., eds. The Conference Proceedings from the Fifth Italo-Egyptian Congress Turin 2001. Turin & Palermo: Ministero per I Beni eLe Attività Culturali. Museo Egizio di Torino Dipartimento di Beni Culturali Sezione Archaeologica Università degli Studi di Palermo, 334-339.
Ashton, S-A. (2003). Foreigners at Memphis? Petrie’s racial types. In W.J. Tait ed. Never had the like occurred: Egypt’s view of its past.London: UCL Press, 187-196.
Ashton, S-A. (2003). The Ptolemaic royal image and the Egyptian tradition. In W.J. Tait ed. Never had the like occurred: Egypt’s view of its past. London: UCL Press, 213-223.
Cleopatra of Egypt: from History to Myth. London: The British Museum Press.
Ashton, S-A. (2000). The Ptolemaic influence on Egyptian royal Statuary. In A. McDonald and C. Riggs eds. Current Research in Egyptology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 1-10.
Other publications
2016 Ashton, S-A. African combs. In Shujaa, M.J & Shujaa, K.J. eds. The Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America. Sage Publications, 82-85.
2014 Ashton, S-A. The Black fist comb. History Workshops: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/
2010 Ashton, S-A. Ptolemaic and Roman sculpture. In A.B. Lloyd ed. A companion to Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Blackwell, 970-989.
2007 Ashton, S-A. ‘Commentary on a statue of a Ptolemaic official’ in P.J. Rose ed. The Meroitic Temple Complex at Qasr Ibrim. 84. Egypt Exploration Society, 93-100.
2006 Ashton, S-A. & Burn, L. Ancient Egypt at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Minerva, September/October.
2005 Ashton, S-A. In search of Cleopatra’s temple. Egyptian Archaeology 27 Autumn 2005.
2005 Ashton, S-A. Roman Egyptomania at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Minerva 15 number 6.
2002 Ashton, S-A. & Grajetzki, W. Highlights of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Antike Welt.
2001 Ashton, S-A. Cleopatra of Egypt. Egyptian Archaeology 18.
2000 Ashton, S-A. & Spanel, D.B. Portraiture. In Donald B Redford ed. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Contributions to exhibition catalogues
2008 In D. Watkins ed. Thomas Hope, Regency designer. Yale University Press.
2006 In F. Goddio & M. Clauss eds. Egypt’s Sunken Treasures (numerous editions).
2006 In E. Warmenbo ed., Sphinx. Les Gárdiens de l’Égypte. Brussels: ING.
2005 In Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Milan: Scala Publishers ltd.
2001 In S. Walker & P. Higgs eds. Cleopatra of Egypt: from history to myth (3 editions).