Judith Swaddling
Head of Italian collections
The Etruscans and the rest of
pre-Roman Italy, the ancient Olympic Games, metalworking
techniques
Department: Greece and Rome
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 latest version of her book, The Ancient
Olympic Games, was published in 2008 (British Museum
Press).
Her PhD thesis was about bronze statuary
production in ancient Greece.
Current British Museum projects
Previous British Museum projects
The Seianti project: leading with
Professor John Prag of Manchester University an international team
of scholars investigating the sarcophagus and skeletal remains of
an Etruscan woman in the British Museum
Various projects on the ancient
Olympic Games, as above
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
Trustee of the Sybille Haynes Fund
for Etruscan and Early Italic Studies
Publications
J. Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games, 3rd edition,
(British Museum Press, 2008) (Also joint imprint with Texas
University Press, 2008, 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, published as Etruscan Studies
(Journal of the Etruscan Foundation) vol. 9, 2006
and vol. 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)