Judith Swaddling

Head of Italian collections

The Etruscans and the rest of pre-Roman Italy, the ancient Olympic Games, metalworking techniques

Department: Greek and Roman Antiquities

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8571
Email: jswaddling @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Judith Swaddling is head of the Italian collections in the Department and curator of the Etruscan and other antiquities from pre- Roman Italy. She organized the exhibition on The Etruscan World (Room 71), and has held various Etruscan conferences and study days. Her publications in this area are listed below.

Judith has a long association with the ancient Olympic Games, having organized a series of exhibitions on the subject, and the enlarged version of her book, The Ancient Olympic Games, was published in 2004 (British Museum Press).

Her PhD thesis was about bronze statuary production in ancient Greece.

Current British Museum projects

Etruscan by Definition
Editing of and contributing to Etruscan by Definition, Papers in Honour of Sybille Haynes, a series of papers on aspects of the Etruscans from the conference held at the British Museum in December 2007.

Etruscan mirrors
Compiling the next volume of the British Museum’s catalogue of Etruscan mirrors (Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum).

Previous British Museum projects

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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

Corresponding Member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Florence

Member of the International Scientific Committee for the Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Council Member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Publications

J. Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games, 3rd edition, (British Museum Press, 2004) (Also joint imprint with Texas University Press, 2004, and published in Chinese, German, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Turkish.)

J. Swaddling, Etruscan Myths with L. Bonfante, (British Museum Press and Texas University Press, 2006). (Also published in Czechoslovakian and Spanish.)

J. Swaddling with P. Perkins (eds.), in Papers from the Etruscans Now conference held at the British Museum December 2002, part 1, published as Etruscan Studies (Journal of the Etruscan Foundation) 9, 2006
(Part 2 to be published as Etruscan Studies 10, 2007)

J. Swaddling with J. Prag (eds.), Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa: the Story of an Etruscan Noblewoman (British Museum Research Paper 100, 2002)

J. Swaddling, 'A catalogue of Etruscan mirrors in the British Museum', Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, Gt. Britain 1, I (British Museum Press 2001)