Paul Roberts
Curator
Roman Art and Archaeology
Department: Greek and Roman
Antiquities
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8475
Email: proberts @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Paul Roberts is head of the Roman section in
Greek and Roman Antiquities, 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.
Current British Museum projects
Preparing a catalogue of Roman Cameo Glass in the British
Museum
Previous British Museum projects
Co-curated the exhibition Ancient Faces in
1997 (with Susan Walker and Morris Bierbrier)
Co-curated the exhibition Gladiators and Caesars (2000) with
Ralph Jackson
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
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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