Alexandra Villing
Curator
Greek pottery and terracotta
figurines
Department: Greek and Roman Antiquities
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8365
Email: avilling @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Alexandra Villing is concerned mainly with
ancient Greece and its culture. Her chief responsibility is looking
after the collection of Greek pottery and terracotta figurines. She
is also involved with dealing with other aspects of Greek material
culture, and the art and history of the Archaic and Classical
periods in general.
Her special interests are Greek pottery and
its uses and decoration; the relations between the Greece and Egypt
and the Near East; religion and mythology; iconography; and daily
life. She was the academic advisor for the British Museum’s Ancient
Greece website and is a part of the excavation team working at the
East Greek site of Miletos on the west coast of Turkey.
Alexandra joined the British Museum in 2001
after having studied at Oxford and worked in Germany and
Greece.
Current British Museum projects
Previous British Museum projects
Ancient Civilisations: Ancient Greece website www.ancientgreece.co.uk
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
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Publications
Most recent publications
A. Villing, (ed.) Naukratis: Greek Diversity in
Egypt. Studies on East Greek pottery and exchange in
the Eastern Mediterranean, ed. with U. Schlotzhauer (British
Museum Research Publication 162; London: British Museum, 2006)
[including articles on ‘Drab Bowls’ for Apollo: The Mortaria of
Naukratis and Exchange in the Archaic Eastern Mediterranean’, pp.
31-46; ‘Naukratis and the Eastern Mediterranean: Past, Present and
Future’, with U. Schlotzhauer, pp. 1-10; ‘East Greek Pottery from
Naukratis: The Current State of Research’, with U. Schlotzhauer,
pp. 53-68; ‘Carian Mercenaries at Naukratis?’, with D. Williams,
pp. 47-48]
A. Villing, Classical Athens
(London: British Museum Press, 2005)
A. Villing (ed.) The Greeks in the
East (British Museum Research Publication 157; London: British
Museum Press, 2005)
A. Villing, ‘For Whom did the Bell Toll in
Ancient Greece? Archaic and Classical Greek Bells at Sparta and
Beyond’, Annual of the British School
at Athens 97 (2002), 223-295
A. Villing (ed) Athena in the Classical
World, with S. Deacy (Leiden: Brill, 2001). [including the
article ‘Athena Past and Present: An Introduction’ with S. Deacy,
pp. 1-25]