Paul Roberts

Curator
Roman Art and Archaeology Department: Greece and Rome

 

Paul Roberts is head of the Roman section in the Department of Greece and Rome, and is responsible for all of the Roman collections, other than sculpture and wall paintings. Paul’s research focuses on aspects of the day-to-day life of the ordinary people of the Roman world. His particular research interests include glass, pottery, bronze and the mummy portraits of Roman Egypt.

More broadly he is interested in the archaeology of the Roman Mediterranean and has taken part in excavations in Greece, Libya and Turkey. He has excavated widely in Italy and is particularly interested in the history and archaeology of Rome, the Bay of Naples and Sicily. Currently he is co-directing excavations on the small Roman town of Forum Novum in northern Lazio, north of Rome.

Paul lived and studied in Italy for six years and was at Sheffield University and Wolfson College Oxford, before joining the British Museum in January 1994.

Contact

proberts@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7323 8475

Current projects

Previous projects

  • Co-curator: Ancient Faces exhibition (1997) with Susan Walker and Morris Bierbrier

  • Co-curator: Gladiators and Caesars exhibition (2000) with Ralph Jackson

Recent publications

P, Roberts, Catalogue of the Cameo Glass in the British Museum, with V. Tatton-Brown, W. Gudenrath and D. Whitehouse (forthcoming, 2008)

P, Roberts, ‘The Archaeological Context of the Portraits’ in S. Quirke, J. Picton and P. Roberts (eds.) Living Images at the PetrieMuseum: Mummy Portraits Published in Honour of Barbara Adams (forthcoming 2007)

P, Roberts, Pocket Dictionary of Roman Emperors (British Museum Press 2006)

P, Roberts, ‘“Singing all summer and dancing all winter”, a group of lead-glazed ware vessels in the British Museum’ in N.Crummy (ed.) Image, Craft and the Classical World. Essays in Honour of Donald Bailey and Catherine Johns. Instrumentum, monograph 29. 2006, 23-38 (2006)

P, Roberts, ‘Forum Novum - Vescovio: studying urbanism in the TiberValley’, with V.Gaffney and H.Patterson, JRA, 14 (2001) pp. 59-79

 
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