Prof. Bert Smith

Fellow, Lincoln College
Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Faculty of Classics

The Ioannou Centre
66 St. Giles'
Oxford,
OX1 3LU

Tel: (01865) 278066
Fax: (01865) 278080

bert.smith@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

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Smith comes from Edinburgh and studied Classics and then Classical Archaeology at Oxford. He was a Fellow by Examination in Ancient History at Magdalen College, Oxford (1981-1986), a Harkness Fellow at Princeton University (1983-85). He taught Hellenistic and Roman art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University from 1986, before coming to Lincoln in 1995. He is a member of the Faculty of Classics and of the School of Archaeology and lectures on classical art and archaeology. He is also the Curator of the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum and (since 1991) Project Director of the New York University Excavations at Aphrodisias in Turkey: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/research/research_projects/aphrodisias

Research Interests

Art and visual cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world; historical interpretation of ancient representation and its relationship with social and political culture; archaeology of Greek cities of Eastern Roman Empire

Selected Recent Publications

2006: Roman Portrait Sculpture from Aphrodisias: Aphrodisias II (335 pp., 27 figs. and maps, 163 pls.), Philipp von Zabern, Mainz.
2007: 'Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600: Local context and historical meaning', in F.A. Bauer, C. Witschel (eds), Statuen in der Spätantike, Wiesbaden, 203-235, pls. 50-68, figs. 1-42.
2007: 'Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit', in S. Hornblower, C. Morgan (eds), Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press, 83-139.
2008: 'Sarcophagi and Roman citizenship', in C. Ratté, R.R.R. Smith (eds), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments, JRA Supplement 70; Providence, RI, 347-94, figs. 1-87.
2010: 'A Fayum teacher’s manual, Alexandrian pavilion architecture, and Augustan wallpainting', in B. Wescoat, O. Palagia (eds), Samothracian Connections: Essays in honor of James R. McCredie, Oxbow Press, Oxford, 211-221, figs. 1-11.
2011: (forthcoming 2010/11): Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (with B. Dignas.), Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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