Bert Smith

Prof Bert Smith

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art

phone: 01865 278079

fax: 01865 278080

email: bert.smith@classics.ox.ac.uk

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.

 

Current Activities

As director of New York University’s Excavations at Aphrodisias (since 1991), engaged in the study and publication of marble finds from the site.  Recently completed a collaborative publication of the portrait statuary, which studies the character and use of honorific statues in an ancient city. Nearing completion of a monographic study of the reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion, for which received a British Academy/ Philip Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2007-8). Most recently, with historian Bryan Ward-Perkins, has been awarded an Art and Humanities Research Council grant for a new project titled ‘The Last Statues of Antiquity’ (for three years, starting in 2009) to investigate the distinctive character of statue use in late antiquity, from AD 284 to 650.

 

Main Publications

Books:

  • Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments (Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series No. 70. Ed. with C. Ratté. Providence, Rhode Island, 2008), c. 400 pp.
  • Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias (Exhibition and catalogue, Istanbul 2008. Ed. with J.L. Lenaghan), c. 300 pp
  • Roman Portrait Sculpture from Aphrodisias (Mainz, 2006).
  • Sculptured for Eternity: Treasures of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, with Ahmet Ertu-, Istanbul (2002)
  • Aphrodisias Papers 3, ed. with C. Roueché, Michigan, (1996)
  • Aphrodisias 1: The Monument of C. Julius Zoilos, (1993), Philipp von Zabern, Mainz,
  • Aphrodisias Papers 1, ed. with K.T. Erim, Michigan (1991)
  • Hellenistic Sculpture, (1991), Thames & Hudson, London
  • Hellenistic Royal Portraits, (1998), Clarendon Press, Oxford

Articles:

  • 'Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 2002-2005’, with C. Ratté, (2008), American Journal of Archaeology 112 713-51, figs. 1-34.
  • '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 2008), 347-94, figs. 1-87.
  • 'Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit', in S. Hornblower, C. Morgan (eds) (2007), Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press,), 83-139.
  • 'Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600: Local context and historical meaning', in F.A. Bauer, C. Witschel (eds) (2007), Statuen in der Spätantike (Wiesbaden), 203-235, pls. 50-68, figs. 1-42.
  • ‘Archaeological' Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1999-2001’, with C. Ratté, (2004), American Journal of Archaeology 108: 145-186,
  • ‘The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History’, in T.P. Wiseman (ed), (2002), Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome, 59-102; British Academy
  • ‘The statue monument of Oecumenius: A new portrait of a late antique governor from Aphrodisias’, (2002), Journal of Roman Studies 102: 134-156
  • ‘A portrait moment for Julian and Theodosius at Aprhodisias’, in Chr. Reusser (ed), (2001), Grienchenland in der Keiserzeit: Neue Funde und Forschungen zu Sculptur, Architekur und Topographie, 125-36; Bern
  • ‘Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1997 and 1998’, with C. Ratté, (2000), American Journal of Archaeology 104: 221-53,
  • ‘Nero and the Sun-god: divine accessories and political symbols in Roman imperial images’, (2000), Journal of Roman Archaeology 13: 532-42
  • ‘Late antique portraits in a public context: Honorific statuary at Aphrodisias in Caria, AD 300-600’, (1999), Journal of Roman Studies 99: 155-189
  • `Cultural choice and political identity in honorific portrait statues in the Greek East in the second century AD’, (1998), Journal of Roman Studies 98: 56-93
  • `Typology and diversity in the portraits of Augustus’, (1997), Journal of Roman Archaeology 10: 31-47
  • `The Public Image of Licinius 1: Sculptured portraits and imperial ideology in the early fourth century’, (1997), Journal of Roman Studies 97: 170-202
  • `Ptolemaic portraits: Alexandrian types, Egyptian versions’, (1996), in Alexandria and Alexandrianism 203-213; Malibu, J.P. Getty Museum
  • `Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1993’, with C. Ratté, (1995), American Journal of Archaeology 99: 33-58 (and following years)
  • `A New Shield Portrait in Izmir’, (1995), Römische Mitteilungen 102: 331-39
  • 'Spear-won land at Boscoreale: On the royal paintings of a Roman villa’, (1994) Journal of Roman Archaeology 7: 100-128
  • `Late Roman Philosopher Portraits from Aphrodisias’, (1990), Journal of Roman Studies 90: 127-55
  • ‘Simulacra gentium: the ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias’, (1988), Journal of Roman Studies 78 :50-77
  • 'The imperial reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias’, (1987), Journal of Roman Studies 77: 88-138

Publications

Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

2011
Smith, R.R.R., (2011), Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi (Ankara), Aphrodisias, II,257–77
2010
Smith, R.R.R. and Yildrum, B., (2010), Aphrodisias, 2008, Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi (Ankara), III,103-130
2009
Smith, R.R.R. & Yildrim, B., (2009), Aphrodisias, 2007, Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi, II,327-340
2008
Smith R.R.R. & Ratté, C., (2008), Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 2002-2005, American Journal of Archaeology , 112, 713-51
Smith, R.R.R., (2008), Emperors and heroes at Aphrodisias, Omnibus, 56, 1-4
Smith, R.R.R., (2008), Aphrodisias, 2006, Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi (Ankara), II
Smith, R.R.R. & Ratté, C. , (2008), Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 2002-2005, American Journal of Archaeology, 112,713-51
2004
Smith, R.R.R. & Ratté, C., (2004), Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1999-2001, American Journal of Archaeology, 108,145-186
2003
Smith, R.R.R. & Ratté C., (2003), Aphrodisias 2001,, Kaz Sonuçlar Toplantisi , 24,327–32
2002
Smith, R.R.R., (2002), The statue monument of Oecumenius: A new portrait of a late antique governor from Aphrodisias, Journal of Roman Studies , 102,134-156
Smith, R.R.R. & Ratté C., (2002), Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1999-2001, American Journal of Archaeology, 108,145-186

Published Books

In press
Dignas, B. and Smith, R.R.R., Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World , Clarendon Press, Oxford
Smith, R.R.R., The marble reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt
2012
Smith, R.R.R. & Ertug, A., (2012), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World, Oxford: Clarendon Press
2009
Smith, R.R.R. (with Ertug, A.), (2009), Aphrodisias: City and Sculpture in Roman Asia, Istanbul: Ertug & Kocabiyik
2008
Ratté, C. & Smith, R.R.R. (eds), (2008), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monument, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 70
Smith, R.R.R and Ratté, C. (eds.), (2008), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monuments, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series No. 70. Providence, Rhode Island
Smith, R.R.R., & Lenaghan, J.L. (eds.) , (2008), Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias, (Exhibition and catalogue, Istanbul)
2006
Smith, R.R.R., (2006), Roman Portrait Sculpture from Aphrodisias: Aphrodisias II, Philipp von Zabern, Mainz
2002
Smith, R.R.R. & Ertu, A., (2002), Sculptured for Eternity: Treasures of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Ertug & Kocabiyik

Contributions to Edited Books

In press
Smith, R.R.R., Monuments for new citizens in Rome and Aphrodisias: in “Dickmann, J.-A., von den Hoff, R., and Pirson, F. (eds), Arte dal basso? Stile e società nel mondo antico, dall’ «arte plebea» ad oggi: in onore di Paul Zanker per il suo 70° compleanno”, pp , Rome.
2012
Smith, R.R.R. , (2012), Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias: in “Smith, R.R.R. and Ertug, A.(ed.), Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World”, pp , Oxford: Clarendon Press.
2011
Smith, R.R.R., (2011), Marble Workshops at Aphrodisias: in “D'Andria, F. and Romeo, I. (eds.), Roman Sculpture in Asia Minor”, pp 62–76, Portsmouth, R.I., JRA Suppl. 80.
Smith, R.R.R., (2011), The Greek East under Rome: in “Borg, B. (ed), Blackwell Companion to Roman Art ”, pp Ch. 26, Wiley-Blackwell.
2010
Smith, R.R.R., (2010), A Fayum teacher’s manual, Alexandrian pavilion architecture, and Augustan wallpainting: in “Wescoat, B. and Palagia, O., (eds.), Samothracian Connections: Essays in honor of James R. McCredie”, pp , Oxbow Press, Oxford.
Smith, R.R.R., (2010), Reception of Ancient Portraits: in “Grafton, A., Most, G. and Settis, S. (eds), The Classical Tradition”, pp 771–5, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
2008
Smith, R.R.R., (2008), Sarcophagi and Roman citizenship: in “Ratté, C. & Smith, R.R.R. (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and its Monument”, pp 347-394, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 70.
Smith, R.R.R., (2008), Sculptors’ workshops: Inscriptions, images, and archaeology: in “Smith, R.R.R., & Lenaghan, J.L. (eds.) Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias”, pp 103-119, (Exhibition and catalogue, Istanbul).
Smith, R.R.R., (2008), Roman portraits and marble production at Aphrodisias: in “Smith, R.R.R., & Lenaghan, J.L. (eds.) Roman Portraits from Aphrodisias”, pp 9-33, (Exhibition and catalogue, Istanbul).
2007
Smith, R.R.R., (2007), Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600: Local context and historical meaning: in “Bauer, F.A., Witschel, C. (eds.) Statuen in der Spätantike”, pp 203-235, Wiesbaden.
Smith, R.R.R., (2007), Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit: in “Hornblower, S. and Morgan, C. (eds.) Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire”, pp 83-139, Oxford University Press.
2002
Smith, R.R.R., (2002), The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History: in “ Wiseman, T.P. (ed.), Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome”, pp 59-102, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2001
Smith, R.R.R., (2001), A portrait monument for Julian and Theodosius at Aphrodisias : in “Reusser, C. (ed.) Griechenland in der Kaiserzeit: Neue Funde und Forschungen zu Skulptur, Architektur und Topographie”, pp 125-36, Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität: Bern.
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