R J A Wilson
Education
BA in Literae Humaniores (Oxford) 1971
MA (Oxford) 1974
MA (Dublin) 1974
DPhil. (Oxford) 1977
About
Career
1974–94 Trinity College Dublin (Junior Lecturer in Classics, Louis Claude Purser Lecturer in Classical Archaeology; Louis Claude Purser Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology)
1994–2005 Professor of Archaeology, University of Nottingham
2006–2014 Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of British Columbia
2008– Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Sicily
Teaching
Research
Research Interests
- The archaeology of Roman and early Byzantine Sicily
- The archaeology and history of the Western Greeks
- Roman north Africa
- The Roman Empire in the West, including Britain
- Roman art and architecture
Projects
Books
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, 5th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
The Triskeles, Ancient Symbol of Sicily, Oxford: Archaeopress
Punta Secca. Life and Death in a Village Settlement in Early Byzantine Sicily (Bulletin Antieke Beschaving, Supplement), Leuven: Peeters
Book chapters and journal articles in press
‘Sicilia’, in B. Burrell (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, due March 2024
‘Philippianus e la sua tenuta rurale nella Sicilia tardoromana: scavi recenti a Gerace presso Enna’, in M. T. Grasso (ed.), Paesaggi rurali nella Sicilia greca e romana. Insediamenti, installazioni produttive e viabilità ai margini della Piana di Catania dall’età arcaica agli albori del Medioevo, 13–14 Novembre 2020, Catania, due 2024
‘La Sicilia tra il 44 a.C. e il 68 d.C: alcuni pensieri trent’anni dopo Sicily under The Roman Empire’, in L. Calì, L. Campagna and E. C. Portale (eds.), La Sicilia fra le guerre civili e l’epoca giulio-claudia, Rome: Quasar, forthcoming
‘Praedia Philippianorum, una tenuta rurale nella Sicilia tardoromana a Gerace presso Enna’, Sicilia Antiqua 21 (2024)
‘L’età della transizione: la fine della villa di Gerace (EN) e la successiva frequentazione del sito durante l’età bizantina’, in M. Cavalieri, C. Sfameni and A. Castrorao Barba (eds.), La villa dopo la villa 3. Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia meridionale e nelle isole maggiori tra Tarda Antichità e Medioevo, Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, due summer 2024
Current field projects
(1) The Campanaio and Castagna project
Campanaio and Castagna are two archaeological sites, 1 km apart, about 25 km west of Agrigento in Sicily. Both were discovered by me during field survey research and partly excavated by teams directed by myself. Castagna was an isolated farmhouse (with 15 rooms, all with earth floors) of early imperial date (c. AD 50), with hellenistic occupation below. It was twice altered and enlarged before its collapse c. 180/200. Despite its humble form, there were some high-status finds, including lead-glazed ware from Tarsus in Cilicia and a mould-blown glass beaker with a Greek inscription (“Rejoice! Enjoy yourself!”), probably also from the eastern Mediterranean. Animal bones were mostly sheep/goats, but also present were tortoise, hare, and deer (red, roe, and considerable quantities of fallow deer). A pit was dug in one of the ruined buildings in the fourth century. Campanaio was a small agricultural village of late hellenistic date (second/first centuries BC), with two kilns of that date producing roof tiles. It was occupied into the early imperial period, when a large cess-pit indicates a possible tanning industry. After a period of abandonment, there was renewed activity in the late fourth century (c. 375 AD), when new storehouses were erected, as well as a domestic building further north. The structures had stone foundations and pisé (rammed earth) superstructures, a technique that lasted in Sicily from archaic Greek times down into late antiquity. Also to the late Roman period belongs a stone vat for storing olive oil, and dolia (huge storage vessels) indicating the production of wine. What is likely to have been an amphora kiln, reused in its final phase for the production of lime, was also active in the fourth and fifth centuries. Distorted wasters show that amphorae of the small flat-bottomed Keay 52 type, probably for wine, as well as tiles and mortaria (mixing bowls for the preparation of food), were all manufactured in this kiln. Carbonized deposits yielded grapes, lentils, and two varieties of wheat. Deer bones (red, roe, and fallow) came second only to sheep/goats in fifth-century deposits, a reminder that Sicily was far more afforested in antiquity than it is today, and that venison (as at Castagna) was not only the privilege of the rich.
Occupation came to a violent end in a disastrous fire c. AD 460, possibly a consequence of a raid by Vandals based in north Africa (known from ancient sources to have harried southern Sicily at this time); some material of later fifth- and sixth-century date shows, however, that there was limited activity on the site even after this. Three male bodies buried according to the Muslim rite were later laid in the ruins. The excavations have been the subject of several detailed preliminary papers, but the hoped-for pottery reports on the hellenistic coarse wares and amphorae, and on the whole of the important late Roman assemblages, have not materialized, preventing final publication. All these finds are now being studied afresh for publication by Dr Fabrizio Ducati, who currently holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024–2026), and who is spending twelve months working on this project at UBC between April 2024 and March 2025.
(2) The Gerace project, province of Enna, Sicily, is investigating the site of a Roman villa in the heart of Sicily, situated in fertile agricultural land with an extensive panorama. It was discovered by accident in 1994 when a torrent burst its banks and cut through one corner of an ancient structure, exposing a mosaic. Subsequent limited excavation discovered the ground plan on the surface of a small structure with five rooms and an irregular L-shaped corridor. Trial trenching descending to floor level suggested that there were geometric mosaic pavements in a corridor and in an apsed room. This building was further partially investigated in 2007, but has not been completely excavated.
In May 2012 UBC conducted its own first investigations at Gerace, involving a team from the British School at Rome, which conducted geophysical survey over a wide area of the 3-ha site. This identified a 50-m long building to the east of the structure with mosaics, as well as several outbuildings and the location of five kilns. The aims of the Gerace project, for which funding for five years was obtained from SSHRC in April 2013, and a further three years in a renewed grant in 2018, are therefore:
(a) to excavate sample areas of the Roman structures more extensively;
(b) to establish the chronology and building phases of the site, to determine the date of both the original construction of the villa and its destruction, and to assess the nature of any post-Roman occupation;
(c) to assess the function of the various buildings at the site (residential or agricultural?), and to monitor any changes over time;
(d) to recover ceramic remains (pottery, lamps, amphorae, tile) with a view to understanding both local ceramic circulation in the Roman period, and to evaluate the extent of imported ceramics, so as to understand better Gerace’s trading links with other parts of Sicily and of the Mediterranean;
(e) to recover faunal and carbonized seed remains in order to establish the range of plants grown and animals raised (or at any rate consumed) by the inhabitants of Gerace.
From mid-May to mid-June 2013 the first season of excavation was conducted at Gerace with the help of 13 students from UBC. Two rooms in the ‘villa-like building’ were excavated, and proved to be service rooms, one with a bench and a stone ‘workstation’ (to waist height) as well as an earth floor (perhaps a kitchen), and the other with white plaster on the walls and a white mortar floor. The building, for which a late second century date had been proposed by one previous excavator, and an early fourth century date by another, was dated to not earlier than AD 360 on the basis of African red slip pottery which formed part of the white mortar floor in the latter. Part of the mosaic-paved corridor outside these rooms was also investigated, and the edge of what was clearly the hot pool of a small bath-suite, with white mortar floor still in situ and its hypocaust stoke-hole preserved, was also discovered. The building was destroyed by fire: pottery and two intact African red slip lamps of the second half of the fifth century show that this occurred not earlier than c. AD 450.
Adjacent to this structure, the 50m-building first identified by geophysics proved to have an intact stone paved floor but very few finds; there is evidence to think that it might not have quite been completed when it suddenly collapsed, probably in an earthquake. It clearly predates the bath-suite and its stoke hole which demolished part of the long building’s west wall in order to provide room to fire the hypocaust. Pottery in the make-up for the long building’s floor suggest that it is not earlier than the second quarter of the fourth century (and part of an earlier building was identified beneath); it may have been under construction in AD 361/3 when it was flattened by an earthquake which Libanius reports as having destroyed most of the cities of Sicily at that time. The building’s function is enigmatic; although it might just possibly have been used as stables, it is more likely to have been a large estate granary.
The finds included 99 tile stamps using 10 different dies, with some tiles receiving as many as three stamps. All seem to have been part of a single production, by a landowner called Philippianus whose name recurs on many of them, and were made for the roof of the villa built after c. AD 370. That he might have raised prize racehorses at Gerace is suggested by some of the stamps which feature horses with head plumes, associated also with victory crowns and palm branches. Vegetius and others report that Sicilian circus ponies were highly rated in the Roman world, and Philippianus might have been raising them in this well-watered central area of Sicily in late Roman times. Indeed horses are still kept on the Gerace estate to this day. There is a unusually marked presence of horse bones in the ancient faunal assemblages, including foals and even an equine milk tooth, suggesting that there was a stud at the estate. A bath-house, excavated between 2016 and 2019, has produced an intact mosaic in its frigidarium which has an inscription on all four sides (uniquely so in the entire Roman Empire). From this we learn the name of the estate (the praedia Philippianorum) and that there had been either ‘joy for’ or ‘joy at’ the Capitolini (Capitolinis gaudium). This is either a reference to a new family (intermarrying with the Philippiani?) or else a reference to the Capitoline contests in Rome (the certamina Capitolina), instituted by Domitian in AD 86 and still going strong in the late fourth century. If the latter is the correct interpretation is correct, it implies that Philippianus trained horses at Gerace and entered them for chariot races at these Greek-style games, sometime in the second half of the fourth century AD, and won there.
The results of the excavation have been so far published in a series of annual reports in the journal Mouseion (2015 and 2017–2021) and in parallel, in Italian, in Sicilia Antiqua (2015 and 2018) and more recently in Cronache di Archeologia (2019–2022). An additional paper, on the tile-stamps found in 2013, was published in Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014), and the bath-house was studied in American Journal of Archaeology for 2020. A summary of all six years of excavation can be found in C. Prescott et al., eds., Trinacria. ‘An Island outside Time’. International Archaeology in Sicily, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2021, in Sicilia Antiqua 2024 (forthcoming), and elsewhere. The discovery of whipworm eggs in a deposit inside one vessel, so proving its use as a chamber pot, was published in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports in 2022.
No excavation was able to take place in 2014 but it continued in five annual seasons from 2015 to 2019. Brief summaries of each of these can be found at the following:
A short study season took place in 2022, when a further campaign of geophysical research was conducted, which found a further set of kilns to the west of the main site.
(3) The Kaukana project, province of Ragusa, Sicily, also funded by SSHRC, was designed to investigate the chronology, character, development and commercial contacts of a late Roman and Byzantine coastal village, and to place it in its wider socio-economic context within late Roman and early Byzantine Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world. This project, in close collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali Ambientali di Ragusa, was set up in 2008. Three seasons of excavation took place between 2008 and 2010. Reports have been issued in Journal of Roman Archaeology in 2009, in Minerva and Current World Archaeology in 2010, in American Journal of Archaeology in 2011, in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology [with C. Sulosky Weaver] in 2012, in Mouseion (volume 10.2 dated 2010) and in Phoenix in 2013, and in Sicilia Antiqua and in Mediterranean Archaeology (volume 25, dated 2012) [the latter with J. Ramsay] in 2014. Also published in 2014 was a contribution on Kaukana to a conference proceedings (P. Pensabene and C. Sfameni (eds.), La Villa restaurata e i nuovi studi sull’edilizia residenziale tardoantica, Bari). A paper on an unusual object from the excavations, a thimble, was published in Oxford Journal of Archaeology in November 2016. Translations into Italian of the last paper and of that in Phoenix were published in Sicily in 2017. Short papers for the general public about the project were published in Perth, Western Australia, in 2015, and in the British journal Antiquus in 2020. The results of the excavation were presented as the XIth Byvanck Lecture, delivered in Leiden at the National Museum of Antiquities on 28th November 2017. The text of that, with illustrations, was published in a printed version to coincide with the lecture; it is also available online here (press ‘download booklet’ in this document).
A post-excavation season was conducted in 2012, and the final volume, with reports from a dozen specialist contributors (some still pending) is in preparation. It is hoped that this volume will be published by Peeters in Leuven as a BABesch Supplement.
Publications
Books
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, London: Constable, 1st edition 1974, pp. xii + 365; 2nd ed. 1980, pp. xvi + 416; 3rd ed. 1988, pp. xvi + 453; 4th ed. 2002, pp. xx + 732
Roman Forts: an illustrated introduction to the garrison posts of Roman Britain, London: Bergstom and Boyle 1980, pp. 96
Piazza Armerina [Archaeological Sites series] London and Austin, TX: Granada Publications and University of Texas Press 1983, pp. 124
Sicily under the Roman Empire: the archaeology of a Roman province, 36 B.C. – A.D. 535, Warminster: Aris and Phillips 1990, pp. x + 452
Caddeddi on the Tellaro. A late Roman villa in Sicily and its mosaics [Bulletin Antieke Beschaving Supplement 28], Leuven, Paris and Bristol, CT: Peeters 2016, pp. viii + 200
Editor, From River Trent to Raqqa: Nottingham University archaeological fieldwork in Britain, Europe and the Middle East 1991-1995, Nottingham: Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham 1996, pp. 104
Editor, Roman Maryport and its setting: essays in memory of Michael G. Jarrett, Maryport: Trustees of the Senhouse Museum 1997, pp. 168
Editor (with J. D. Creighton), Roman Germany: studies in cultural interaction (JRA supplementary series 32), Portsmouth RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology 1999, pp. 248
Editor (with I. D. Caruana), Romans on the Solway: essays in honour of Richard Bellhouse, Kendal: Trustees of the Senhouse Museum 2004, pp. 232
Editor, Romanitas. Essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2006, pp. xxx + 232
Complete List of Published Work
1975
1. A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, London: Constable 1975, pp. xii + 365 (with a foreword by Professor J. M. C. Toynbee)
1976
2. Review of M. I. Finley and H. W. Pleket, The Olympic Games: the first thousand years (1976), in Hermathena 120 (1976), 78–80
3. Review of M. Grant, The Fall of the Roman Empire – a reappraisal (1976), in Hermathena 120 (1976), 86–88
1977
4. ‘Interventi’ at the Fourth Congresso Internazionale di Studi sulla Sicilia Antica, in Kokalos 22–23 (1976–1977), 585–586 and 694–696
5. Review of J. Liversidge, Everyday Life in the Roman Empire (1976), in Antiquity 51 (1977), 247–248
1979
6. ‘Brick and tile in Roman Sicily’, in A. McWhirr (ed.), Roman Brick and Tile, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 1979, 11–43
7. Contributions on Roman Britain to The Past all around us, London: Reader’s Digest 1979, 12–13, 42–43, 76, 94–95, 100, 152–153, 234, 250–251 and 404–405, and entries in the gazeteer on all Romano–British sites
1980
8. A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, 2nd. edition, London: Constable 1980, pp. xvi + 416
9. Roman Forts: an illustrated introduction to the garrison posts of Roman Britain, London: Bergstom and Boyle 1980, pp. 96
10. ‘On the date of the Roman amphitheatre at Syracuse’, in Miscellanea di studi classici in onore di Eugenio Manni, Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider 1980, 2217–2230
11. ‘Field Survey at Heraclea Minoa (Agrigento), Sicily’, Journal of Field Archaeology 7 (1980), 219–239 (with A. Leonard Jr.)
12. Review article on Roman Spain, of J. M. Blazquez, Ciclos y temas de la Historia de Espana: la Romanizacion (1974); id., Historia Social y Economica de la Espana Romana. Siglos III–V (1975); id., ‘Ciudedas Hispanas de la epoca de Augusto’ (1976); id., Economia de la Hispania Romana (1978); id., Diccionario de las Religiones Preromanas de Hispania (1975); id., Imagen y Mito (1977), in Hermathena 128 (1980), 57–63
1981
13. ‘Heraclea Minoa and its hinterland in classical antiquity’, in G. Barker and R. Hodges (eds.), Archaeology and Italian Society: Papers in Italian Archaeology II, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 1981, 249–260
14. ‘Mosaics, mosaicists and patrons’, Journal of Roman Studies 71 (1981), 173–177
15. ‘Sardinia and Sicily during the Roman Empire: aspects of the archaeological evidence’, Kokalos 26–27 (1980–1981), 219–242
16. ‘Eraclea Minoa. Ricerche nel territorio’, ibid. 656–667
1982
17. ‘Roman mosaics in Sicily: the African connection’, American Journal of Archaeology 86 (1982), 413–428
18. ‘Una villa romana a Montallegro (Agrigento)’, Sicilia Archeologica xv, 48 (1982), 7–20
19. ‘Archaeology in Sicily, 1977–81’, Archaeological Reports 28 (1981–1982), 84–105
20. ‘Mosaic conservation: Piazza Armerina’, Mosaic 6 (1982), 18–19
1983
21. Piazza Armerina (Archaeological Sites series), London: Granada Publications, and and Austin, TX: University of Texas Press 1983, pp. 124
22. ‘Luxury retreat, fourth-century style: a millionaire aristocrat in late Roman Sicily’, Opus 2 (1983), 537–552
23. Review of G. Rickman, The Corn Supply of Ancient Rome (1980), in Hermathena 134 (1983), 85–89
1984
24. Review of A. Griffin, Sikyon (1982), in Hermathena 137 (1984), 53–56
1985
25. ‘Changes in the pattern of urban settlement in Roman, Byzantine and Arab Sicily’, in C. Malone and S. Stoddart (eds.), Papers in Italian Archaeology IV.i, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 1985, 313–344
26. ‘Un insediamento agricolo romano a Castagna (comune di Cattolica Eraclea, AG)’, Sicilia Archeologica xviii, 57–58 (1985), 11–35
27. ‘Roman Britain’, ‘Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall’, ‘Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum)’, ‘Corsica and Sardinia’ and ‘Roman Sicily’, in R. J. A. Talbert (ed.), Atlas of Classical History, London: Croom Helm 1985, 130–135 and 146–149
28. Review of E. Manni, Geografia fisica e politica della Sicilia antica (1981), in Journal of Roman Studies 75 (1985), 296–299
29. Review of D. von Boeselager, Antike Mosaiken in Sizilien (1983), in Journal of Roman Studies 75 (1985), 299–301
1986
30. ‘Roman art and architecture’, in J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray (eds.), The Oxford History of the Classical World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1986, 771–806
31. Review of R. Meiggs, Trees and Timber in the ancient Mediterranean world (1982), in Hermathena 140 (1986), 74–78
1987
32. ‘Reading history: Britain as a province of Rome’, History Today 38 (August 1987), 47–51
33. Review of J. Humphrey, Roman Circuses (1986), in Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987), 206–210
34. Review of J. M. Blazquez and M. A. Mezquiriz, Mosaicos Romanos de Navara (1985), in Gnomon 59 (1987), 433–437
35. Review of K. T. Erim, Aphrodisias (1986), in New York Times Review of Books, 1st. March 1987
1988
36. A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, 3rd. edition, London: Constable 1988, pp. xvi + 453
37. ‘The Western Greeks’, in J. Boardman (ed.), Cambridge Ancient History, new edition: plates to volume IV – Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525–479 B.C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988, 179–201
38. ‘Roman art and architecture’, in J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray (eds.), The Roman World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988, 361–400 (expanded version of 1986 essay)
39. ‘Towns of Sicily under the Roman Empire’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II.11.1, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 1988, 90–206
40. ‘Trade and industry in Sicily under the Roman Empire’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II.11.1, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 1988, 207–305
41. ‘A wandering inscription from Rome and the so–called Gymnasium at Syracuse’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 71 (1988), 161–166
42. ‘Archaeology in Sicily, 1982–7’, Archaeological Reports 34 (1987–1988), 105–150
43. ‘Ancient granite quarries on the Bocche di Bonifacio’, in N. Herz and M. Waelkens (eds.), Classical Marble: geochemistry, technology, trade (NATO ASI series E, 153), Dordrecht 1988, 103–112
44. ‘Piazza Armerina and the senatorial aristocracy in late Roman Sicily’, in G. Rizza (ed.), La Villa Romana del Casale di Piazza Armerina, Catania 1988, 170–182 (also interventi in the same volume: 136–137 and 192–193)
45. ‘Eraclea Minoa. Gli scavi eseguiti nel territorio negli anni 1980–1983’, Kokalos 30–31 (1984–1985) [published 1988], 489–500
46. Review of H. Mielsch, Die römische Villa: Architektur und Lebensform (1987), in Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988), 244–245
47. Review of J. Wacher, The Roman Empire (1987), in Antiquity 62 (1988), 405–406
1989
48. Review of O. Brogan and D. J. Smith, Ghirza: a Libyan settlement in the Roman period (1988), in Antiquity 63 (1989), 173
49. Review of H. Jouffroy, La construction publique en Italie et dans l’Afrique romaine (1986), in Classical Review 39 (1989), 346–348
1990
50. Sicily under the Roman Empire: the archaeology of a Roman province, 36 B.C. – A.D. 535, Warminster: Aris and Phillips, pp. x + 452
51. ‘Granite quarrying in the Straits of Bonifacio’, in Akten des XIII Internationalen Kongesses für Klassische Archäologie, Berlin 1988, Mainz 1990, 341–342
52. ‘Roman architecture in a Greek world: the example of Sicily’, in M. Henig (ed.), Architecture and architectural sculpture in the Roman Empire, Oxford 1990, 67–90
53. Review of C. Balmelle, Recueil Général des mosaiques de la Gaule IV: Province d’Aquitaine II (1987), in Bonner Jahrbücher 190 (1990), 739–742
1991
54. ‘Roman art and architecture’, in J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray (eds.), The Roman World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991, 413–448 (updated version of 1986/1988 essay)
1992
55. ‘Tubi fittili (vaulting tubes): on their origin and distribution’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 5 (1992), 97–129
56. Review of M. Millett, The Romanization of Britain (1990), in Journal of Roman Studies 72 (1992), 290–293
57. Review of N. H. and A. Ramage, The Cambridge Illustrated History ogf Roman Art (1991), Hermathena 152 (Summer 1992), 95–99
1993
58. ‘Les tubes de voûte en terre cuite dans l’Empire romain’, Bulletin de l’Association pour l’Antiquité tardive 2 (1992), 90–104
59. ‘La Sicilia’, in A. Carandini, L. Cracco Ruggini and A. Giardina (eds.), Storia di Roma III.2: il tardo impero. I luoghi e le culture, Turin: Einaudi Editori, 279–298
60. Review of A. Peschlow-Bindokat, Die Steinbrüche von Selinunt. Die Cava di Cusa und die Cava di Barone (1990), in Classical Review 43 (1993), 374–376
1994
61. ‘Sikelia’, in L. Kahil (ed.), Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, VII.1, Munich and Zürich: Artemis Verlag 1994, 759–761
62. ‘The mosaic’, in T. W. Potter (ed.), Excavations at Cherchell (Algeria), 1977–81 [6th Supplément to Bulletin d’Archéologie algérienne], Algiers 1994, 125–130
63. Review of A. L. F. Rivet, Gallia Narbonensis (1988) in Bonner Jahrbücher 194 (1994), 687–692
64. Review of R. R. Holloway, The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily (1991), for Journal of Hellenic Studies 114 (1994), 217–218
1995
65. ‘Carthaginian, Numidian and Roman’, in T. Phillips (ed.), Africa: the art of a continent, London: Royal Academy of Arts, and Munich and New York: Prestel 1995, 536–538 and 553–558
66. ‘The Castagna and Campanaio Roman agricultural settlements project, central southern Sicily’, Papers of the British School at Rome 63 (1995), 259–260
67. Review of L. Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1993), and M. Steinby, Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae I (1993), in Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995), 251–253
1996
68. Editor, From River Trent to Raqqa: Nottingham University archaeological fieldwork in Britain, Europe and the Middle East 1991–1995, Nottingham: Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham 1996, pp. 104
69. ‘Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica’, in A. Bowman et al. (eds.), Cambridge Ancient History, new edition, volume X (31 B.C. – A.D. 70), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996, 434–48
70. ‘Archaeology in Sicily 1988–95’, Archaeological Reports for 1995–1996, London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1996, 59–123
71. ‘Tot aquarum tam multis necessariis molibus . . . Recent studies on aqueducts and water supply’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996), 5–29
72. ‘Nuovi scavi all’ insediamento agricolo ellenistico–romano di Castagna (AG), 1993’, Quaderni del Istituto di Archeologia della Università di Messina 8 (1993) [publ. 1996], 29–49
73. ‘Rural life in Roman Sicily: excavations at Castagna and Campanaio’, in R. J. A. Wilson (ed.), From River Trent to Raqqa, Nottingham: University of Nottingham 1996, 24–41
74. ‘La topografia della Catania romana. Problemi e prospettive’, in B. Gentili, ed., Catania antica: atti del convegno della Società Italiana per lo studio dell’antichità classica [Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura classica. Atti di Convegno 6], Pisa and Rome 1996, 149–173
75. ‘A portable altar fragment from Dragonby’, in J. May, Excavations at Dragonby, Oxford: Oxbow Books 1996, 377–378
76. ‘Capreae’, ‘Cosa’, ‘Ghirza’, ‘Mahdia shipwreck’, ‘Numidia’, ‘Piazza Armerina’, ‘Puteoli’ and ‘Santa Maria Capua Vetere’, in J. Turner, ed., The Macmillan Dictionary of Art, London: Macmillan 1996, V, 685–686; VII, 917; XII, 557; XX, 105–106; XXIII, 299–300; XXIV, 699–702; XXV, 747–748; and XXVII, 781
77. ‘Carthage’ in B. M. Fagan (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 1996, 119–120
78. ‘The Roman frontier’ in B. M. Fagan (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996, 610–612
79. ‘Acrae’, ‘Acragas’, ‘Aetna (1)’, ‘Aetna (2)’, ‘Africa, Roman’, ‘Ammaedara’, ‘Atlas Mountains’, ‘Bulla Regia’, ‘Byzacium’, ‘Camarina’, ‘Capsa’, ‘Carthage’, ‘Catana’, ‘Cirta’, ‘Cuicul’, ‘Eryx’, ‘Gela’, ‘Hadrumetum’, ‘Himera’, ‘Hippo Regius’, ‘Lambaesis’, ‘Leontinoi’, ‘Lepcis Magna’, ‘Lilybaeum’, ‘Madauros’, ‘Mauretania’, ‘Megara Hyblaea’, ‘Morgantina’, ‘Motya’, ‘Naxos (2)’, ‘Numidia’, ‘Oea’, ‘Piazza Armerina’, ‘Sabratha’, ‘Segesta’, ‘Selinus’, ‘Sicca Veneria’, ‘Sicily’, ‘Simitthus’, ‘Sufetula’, ‘Syracuse’, ‘Tauromenium’, ‘Thamugadi’, ‘Theveste’, ‘Thubursicum Numidarum’, ‘Thugga’, ‘Thysdrus’, ‘Tingis’, ‘Tipasa’, ‘Tripolitania’, ‘Utica’ , ‘Uthina’, ‘Volubilis’, ‘Zama’ , in S. Hornblower and A. J. Spawforth, eds, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996, pp. 9, 31, 34–35, 72–73, 208, 265, 266, 282, 289, 295–296, 302–303, 333, 412, 557–558, 627, 663–664, 707, 709–710, 812, 844, 844–845, 861–862, 907, 939, 951, 995–996, 998, 1031, 1054, 1061, 1182, 1342, 1379, 1382, 1401, 1401–1403, 1408–1409, 1453, 1463–1464, 1477, 1491–1492, 1512–1513, 1516, 1521, 1522, 1530, 1533, 1574–1575, 1612 and 1633
1997
80. Editor, Roman Maryport and its setting: essays in memory of Michael G. Jarrett, Maryport: Trustees of the Senhouse Museum 1997, pp. 168
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82. La Sicilia romana: tra arte e storia, Palermo: Edizioni Ariete 1997, pp. 32
83. ‘Vaulting tube’, in T. W. Potter and A. C. King, Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato [Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 11], Rome 1997, 234–235
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85. ‘Africa, Roman’, ‘Carthage’, ‘Sicily’ and ‘Syracuse’, in S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 12–14, 141–144, 663–665 and 698–699
1999
86. Editor (with J. D. Creighton), Roman Germany: studies in cultural interaction [JRA supplementary series 32], Portsmouth R. I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology 1999, pp. 248
87. ‘Introduction: recent research on Roman Germany,’ in R. J. A. Wilson and J. D.Creighton (eds.), Roman Germany: studies in cultural interaction, Portsmouth, R. I. 1999, 9–34 (with J. D. Creighton)
88. ‘Sicilian Naxian wine amphoras: a new look at wine in north Africa’ [paper presented to 100th Annual Meeting of the AIA, 27 December 1998], American Journal of Archaeology 103 (1999), 268 [abstract] (with J. Freed)
89. ‘The circuit walls of Syracuse’, in C. Scarre (ed.), The Seventy Wonders of the ancient world: the great monuments and how they were built, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. 1999, 210–211
90. ‘The Campanaio Roman agricultural project,’ Papers of the British School at Rome 67 (1999), 421–423
2000
91. ‘On the trail of the triskeles: from the Macdonald Institute to archaic Greek Sicily’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10 (2000), 35–61
92. ‘Campanaio – an agricultural settlement in Roman Sicily’, Antiquity 74 (2000), 289–290
93. ‘Rural settlement in hellenistic and Roman Sicily: excavations at Campanaio (AG), 1994–1998’, Papers of the British School at Rome 68 (2000), 337–369
94. ‘Iscrizioni su manufatti siciliani in età ellenistico-romana’, in G. Nenci (ed.), Sicilia epigrafica [Atti del Convegno di Erice 15–18 ottobre 1998] (Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore diPisa4, Quaderni 1999.1–2), Pisa 2000, 531–556
95. ‘Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective’, in C. Smith and J. Serrati (eds.), Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus: new approaches in archaeology and history, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2000, 134–160
96. ‘Sicilia’, map and accompanying lists and bibliography in R. J. A. Talbert (ed.), The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2000, Map 47 of Map Volume, and Map-by-Map Directory, Volume 1, 709–735
2001
97. ‘Aqueducts and water supply in Greek and Roman Sicily: the present status quaestionis’, in G. C. M. Jansen (ed.), Cura Aquarum in Sicilia. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region, Syracuse, May 16–22, 1998 [Bulletin Antieke Beschaving Supplement 5], Leiden: Stichtung BABesch 2000 [publ. 2001], 5–36
98. ‘Why did the Carthaginians sacrifice children?’, ‘The mysteries of Mithraism’, and ‘The lost tomb of Alexander the Great’, in B. Fagan, ed., The seventy great mysteries of the ancient world, London: Thames and Hudson 2001, 173–176, 193–196 and 223–226
99. Review of J. T. Peña et al, Carthage Papers [JRA Suppementary volume 28] and H. Hurst, The Sanctuary of Tanit at Carthage [JRA Suppementary volume 30], for JRS x91 (2001), 198–200
2002
100. A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, 4th. edition, London: Constable 2002, pp. xx + 732
101. ‘Vita rurale nella Sicilia ellenistico-romana: l’insediamento di Campanaio’, Kalos xiii.4 (October/December 2001) [publ. 2002], 24–31
102. ‘Roman vaulting tubes (tubi fittili) from Chesters’, Archaeologia Aeliana5 30 (2002), 180–185
103. ‘Presentazione’ in F. S. Brancato & R. Mingoia, Piazza Armerina: apud thermas apud Hennam. La cosidetta villa romana del Casale, Comiso: Documenta 2002, 11–13
104. Review of A. Oxé, H. Comfort and P. Kenrick (eds.), Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum, 2nd. ed. 2001, for Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002), 212–214
2003
105. ‘From Palma di Montechiaro to the Isle Of Man: the use of the triskeles in antiquity and after’, in G. Fiorentini, M. Caltabiano and A. Calderone, eds, Archeologia nel Mediterraneo: studi in onore di Ernesto De Miro, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider 2003, 721–747
106. ‘A group of Roman house-tombs at Tauromenium (Taormina)’, in G. M. Bacci and M. C. Martinelli (eds.), Studi classici in onore di Luigi Bernabò Brea [Quaderni del Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano “Luigi Bernabò Brea”, Supplemento 2], Palermo: Regione Siciliana 2003, 247–274
107. ‘Journeymen’s jottings: two Roman inscriptions from Hadrian’s Wall’, Archaeologia Aeliana5 32 (2003), 25–35
108. ‘The Rudston Venus mosaic revisited: a spear-bearing lion?’, Britannia 34 (2003), 288–291
109. ‘Roman vaulting tubes (tubi fittili) from Chesters: an addendum’, Archaeologia Aeliana5 32(2003), 192–193
110. Review of S. Ellis, Roman houses (2000) for Journal of Roman Archaeology 16 (2003), 582–584
2004
111. Editor (with I. D. Caruana) Romans on the Solway: essays in honour of Richard Bellhouse,Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Kendal, for the Trustees of the Senhouse Museum, Maryport, pp. 232
112. ‘Introduction: the Roman frontier on the Solway’, in R. J. A. Wilson and I. D. Caruana (eds.), Romans on the Solway, Kendal 2004), 19–38
113. ‘The Roman ‘Officer’s Tomb’ at High Rochester revisited’, Archaeologia Aeliana5 33 (2004), 25–33
114. ‘Two Romano-British mosaic inscriptions reconsidered’, Mosaic 31 (2004), 18–22
2005
115. ‘On the identification of the figure in the south apse of the Great Hunt corridor at Piazza Armerina’, Sicilia Antiqua 1 (2004) [publ. 2005], 153–170
116. ‘Jos De Waele: his contribution to classical archaeology’, in S. Mols and E. Moorman (eds.), Omni pede stare. Saggi architettonici e circumvesuviani in memoriam Jos de Waele, Naples: Electa 2005, 9–17
117. ‘On the origins of the Roman civic basilica: the Egyptian connection’, in S. Mols and E. Moorman (eds.), Omni pede stare. Saggi architettonici e circumvesuviani in memoriam Jos de Waele, Naples: Electa 2005, 129–139
118. ‘La sopravvivenza di cultura punica nella Sicilia romana’, in A. Spanò Giamellaro (ed.), Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi fenici e punici, Marsala–Palermo, 2–8 ottobre 2000, Palermo, 907–917
2006
119. Editor, Romanitas. Essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his nintieth birthday, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2006, pp. xxx + 232
120. ‘Sheppard Sunderland Frere: an appreciation’, in R. J. A. Wilson (ed.), Romanitas. Essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2006, vii–viii
121. ‘Early defences and civic status in Roman Britain’ in R. J. A. Wilson (ed.), Romanitas. Essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2006, 1–47
122. ‘Aspects of iconography in Romano-British mosaics: the Rudston ‘aquatic’ scene and the Brading astronomer revisited’, Britannia 37 (2006), 295–336
123. ‘What’s new in Roman Baden-Württemberg?’, Journal of Roman Studies 96 (2006), 198–212
124. ‘Settlement patterns in south-east Sicily in Roman and late Roman times’, in F. P. Rizzo (ed.), Da abitato in abitato. In itinere fra le più antiche testimonianze cristiane degli Iblei [Atti del Convegno Internazionel di Studi, Ragusa–Catania, 3–5 April 2003], Pisa and Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali 2005 [publ. 2006], 223-238
125. ‘Postilla’, in F. P. Rizzo (ed.), Da abitato in abitato. In itinere fra le più antiche testimonianze cristiane degli Iblei [Atti del Convegno Internazionel di Studi, Ragusa–Catania, 3–5 April 2003], Pisa and Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali 2005 [publ. 2006], 163–167
126. ‘The Flawborough lead tank’, in E. Hartley, J. Hawkes, M. Henig and F. Mee (eds.), Constantine the Great: York’s Roman Emperor, York: Yorkshire Museums Trust, and Aldershot and Burlington: Lund Humphries 2006, 208–209 (no. 195)
127. ‘A life of luxury in late Roman Sicily: the villa of Piazza Armerina’, Minerva 17.1 (January/February 2006), 40–43
128. ‘Architects’, ‘architecture (Greek and Roman)’, ‘Augst’, ‘basilica’, ‘Capri’, ‘Corsica’, ‘domes’, ‘Motya’, ‘orders, architectural’, ‘palaces’, ‘Pantheon’, ‘Sicily’, ‘Syracuse’, ‘Thugga’, ‘Timgad’, ‘Utica’, in G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, D. Mattingly and L. Foxhall, eds, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006, 68–69, 69–72, 109–110, 123, 162–163, 238, 280–281, 593, 629–630, 638, 641, 819–821, 853–854, 887, 890–891 and 916
2007
129. ‘Algeria: Numidians and Romano-Africans in a forgotten land’, Minerva 18.6 (2007), 36–40
130. ‘Foreword’, in A. Neville, Mountains of silver and rivers of gold: the Phoenicians in Iberia [UBC Studies in the Ancient World Volume 1], Oxford: Oxbow Books for the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, UBC, 2007, 7–8
131. Review of F. P. Rizzo, Sicilia cristiana dal I al V secolo. Volume Primo. Testimonia Siciliae Antiquae I.14; Supplementi a Kokalos 17 (Rome 2005) and id., Gli albori della Sicilia cristiana. Secoli I-V. Temi e luoghi del mondo antico 17 (Bari 2005), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2008
132. ‘Chiese paleocristiane in Sicilia: problemi e prospettive’, Kokalos 47–48 (2001–2002) [published 2008], 145–168
133. ‘Sublime Silin: a luxury Roman villa on the Libyan coastline’, Minerva 19.4 (July/August 2008), 45–49
134. ‘Vivere in villa: rural residences of the Roman rich in Italy’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 21 (2008), 477–488
135. ‘Roman domestic tomb and feasting room found in Sicily’, Minerva 19.5 (September/October 2008), 3–4
2009
136. ‘An early Byzantine ‘élite’ tomb in a domestic context at Kaukana, Sicily’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 22 (2009), 412–415
137. ‘Aithiopia’, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Supplementum2009, Dusseldorf: Artemis Verlag 2009, vol. 1, 38–39 (with plates in vol. 2, 25)
138. ‘Sikelia’, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Supplementum2009, Dusseldorf: Artemis Verlag 2009, vol. 1, 450
2010
139.‘Villa’, in M. Gagarin (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, volume 7, 179–181
140. ‘Life and death in early Byzantine Sicily’, Minerva 21.6 (November/December 2010), 34–37
141. ‘Banquets for the dead: new discoveries in early Byzantine Sicily’, Current World Archaeology 44 (December 2010), 38–45
2011
142. ‘Funerary feasting in early Byzantine Sicily: new evidence from Kaukana’, American Journal of Archaeology 115 (2011), 263–302 [with appendices by J.W. Hayes and C. L. Sulosky]
143. ‘Il sito bizantino di Kaukana’, Kalos xxiii.1 (January–March 2011), 38–42
144. ‘Leben und Sterben im frühbyzantinischen Sizilien. Neue Erkenntnisse aus Kaukana’, Antike Welt 5.2011, 68–75
145. ‘The fourth-century villa at Piazza Armerina (Sicily) in its wider imperial context: a review of some aspects of recent research’, in G. von Bülow and H. Zabehlicky (eds.), Bruckneudorf und Gamzigrad. Spätantike Paläste und Großvillen im Donau-Balkan-Raum. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums in Bruckneudorf vom 15. bis 18. Oktober 2008. Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte Band 15 (= Sonderschriften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts Band 45), Bonn: Habelt 2011, 55–87
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147. ‘Foreword’, in J. Freed, Bringing Carthage Home. The excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856–1859, UBC Studies in the Ancient World 2, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2011, 7–8
148. Review of P. Wright, Snakes, Sands and Silphium. Travels in Classical Libya (2011) in Libyan Studies 42 (2011), 154–155
2012
149. ‘Agorai and fora in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily: the present status questionis’, in C. Ampolo (ed.), Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 2012, 245–267 and pls. 269–303
150. ‘Acrae’, ‘Acragas’, ‘Aetna (1)’, ‘Aetna (2)’, ‘Africa, Roman’, ‘Ammaedara’, ‘Atlas Mountains’, ‘Bulla Regia’, ‘Byzacium’, ‘Camarina’, ‘Capsa’, ‘Carthage’, ‘Catana’, ‘Cirta’, ‘Cuicul’, ‘Eryx’, ‘Gela’, ‘Hadrumetum’, ‘Himera’, ‘Hippo Regius’, ‘Lambaesis’, ‘Leontinoi’, ‘Lepcis Magna’, ‘Lilybaeum’, ‘Madauros’, ‘Mauretania’, ‘Megara Hyblaea’, ‘Morgantina’, ‘Motya’, ‘Naxos (2)’, ‘Numidia’, ‘Oea’, ‘Piazza Armerina’, ‘Sabratha’, ‘Segesta’, ‘Selinus’, ‘Sicca Veneria’, ‘Sicily’, ‘Simitthus’, ‘Sufetula’, ‘Syracuse’, ‘Tauromenium’, ‘Thamugadi’, ‘Theveste’, ‘Thubursicum Numidarum’, ‘Thugga’, ‘Thysdrus’, ‘Tingis’, ‘Tipasa’, ‘Tripolitania’, ‘Uthina’, ‘Utica’, ‘Volubilis’, ‘Zama’, in S. Hornblower, A. J. Spawforth and E. Eidinow (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, 9, 30–31, 33–34, 70, 200, 255, 256, 271–272, 278, 283–285, 291, 320, 396–397, 537, 606, 642, 685, 689, 790, 820–821, 837, 881, 913, 925, 968, 971, 1004, 1026, 1033, 1147, 1304, 1340, 1342–1343, 1361–1363, 1368, 1410, 1420–1421, 1434, 1448–1449, 1468–1469, 1472, 1477–1478, 1485, 1508, 1529–1530, 1564, 1586
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152. ‘Carthage’ and ‘Roman Empire: the Roman frontier’ in N. A. Silberman (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2012, vol. 1, 260–262 and vol. 3, 44–48
2013
153. ‘Life, death and dining: UBC excavations at Punta Secca (RG), Sicily’, Mouseion 10.2 (2010) [publ. 2013], 119–167
154. ‘Sicily, c. 300 BC–133 BC’, in C. Smith (ed.), The Cambridge Ancient History, new edition: plates to volumes VIII.2 to IX (500–133 BC), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, 156–196
155. ‘Carthage and her neighbours’, in C. Smith (ed.), The Cambridge Ancient History, new edition: plates to volumes VIII.2 to IX (500–133 BC), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, 197–241
156. ‘Hellenistic Sicily, c. 270–100 BC’, in J. Prag and J. Quinn (eds.), The Hellenistic West, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, 79–119
157. ‘An unusual early-Byzantine ‘thrice-holy’ inscription and accompanying design from Punta Secca, Sicily’, Phoenix 67.1–2 (2013), 163–181
158. ‘Becoming Roman overseas? Sicily and Sardinia in the later Roman Republic’, in J. DeRose Evans (ed.), Blackwells Companion to Roman Republican Archaeology, Oxford: Wiley Blackwells 2013, 485–504
159. Review of R. Bonacasa Carra and F. Ardizzone (eds), Agrigento da Tardo Antico al Medioevo (2007), for Mouseion 10.2 (2010) [publ. 2013], 322–326
2014
160. ‘Tile-stamps of Philippianus in late Roman Sicily: a talking signum or evidence for horse-raising?’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014), 472–486
161. ‘Il banchetto funerario nella Sicilia della prima età bizantina: nuove attestazioni da Kaukana’, Sicilia Antiqua 11 (2014), 541–591 [with appendices by J. W. Hayes and C. L. Solosky Weaver]
162. ‘La villa tardoromana di Caddeddi sul fiume Tellaro (SR) e i suoi mosaici’, in P. Pensabene and C. Sfameni (eds.), La Villa restaurata e i nuovi studi sull’edilizia residenziale tardoantica. Atti del Convegno internazionale del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia nel Mediterraneo (CISEM) (Piazza Armerina, 7–10 novembre 2012), Bari: Edipuglia 2014, 37–46
163. ‘Punta Secca (‘Kaukana’): gli scavi canadesi 2008–2010′, in P. Pensabene and C. Sfameni (eds.), La Villa restaurata e i nuovi studi sull’edilizia residenziale tardoantica. Atti del Convegno internazionale del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia nel Mediterraneo (CISEM) (Piazza Armerina, 7–10 novembre 2012), Bari: Edipuglia 2014, 53–59
164. ‘La villa romana di Gerace: primi risultati della ricerca geofisica’, in P. Pensabene and C. Sfameni (eds.), La Villa restaurata e i nuovi studi sull’edilizia residenziale tardoantica. Atti del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia nel Mediterraneo (CISEM) (Piazza Armerina, 7–10 novembre 2012), Bari: Edipuglia 2014, 95–101
165. ‘Considerazioni conclusive’ in P. Pensabene and C. Sfameni (eds.), La Villa restaurata e i nuovi studi sull’edilizia residenziale tardoantica. Atti del Convegno internazionale del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia nel Mediterraneo (CISEM) (Piazza Armerina, 7–10 novembre 2012), Bari: Edipuglia 2014, 691–702
166. ‘Funerary Dining in Early Byzantine Sicily: archaeobotanical evidence from Kaukana’, Mediterranean Archaeology 25 (2012) [publ. 2014], 81–93 [with J. Ramsay]
167. ‘Probable atretic cephalocele in an adult female from Punta Secca, Sicily’, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 24.6 (2014), 747–756 [with C. Sulosky Weaver]
2015
168. ‘The western Roman provinces’, in B. E. Borg (ed.), A Companion to Roman Art, Malden, Oxford and Chichester: Wiley Blackwell 2015, 496–530
169. ‘UBC Excavations of the Roman villa at Gerace (EN), Sicily: results of the 2013 season’, Mouseion 12 (2012; publ. 2015), 175–230
170. ‘Scavi alla villa romana di Gerace (EN): risultati della campagna 2013’, Sicilia Antiqua 12 (2015), 129–162
171. ‘On the personification in the Hunt mosaic at the Roman villa of Caddeddi on the Tellaro, Sicily’, Mosaic 42 (2015), 29–41
172. ‘The lady with the hole in her head: a Sicilian mystery, 1400 years ago’, Roman Archaeology Group Magazine (Perth) 10.2 (2015), 6–10
173. ‘Roman Sicily and the sea’, in D. Burgersdijk, R. Calis, J. Kelder, A. Sofroniew, S. Tusa and R. van Beek (eds.), Sicily and the Sea, catalogue for the international exhibition in
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174. ‘Sheppard Sunderland Frere’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 28 (2015), 968–973
175. Review of S. Frey-Kupper, Die antiken Fundmünzen vom Monte Iato 1971–1990: Ein Beitrag zur Geldgeschichte Westsiziliens, 2 vols., Éditions du Zèbre: Prahins, 2013, in Journal of Roman Archaeology 28 (2015), 554–558
2016
176. Caddeddi on the Tellaro. A late Roman villa in Sicily and its mosaics, Bulletin Antieke Beschaving Supplement 28, Peeters: Leuven, Paris and Bristol, CT 2016, pp. viii + 200
177. ‘On early thimbles: a seventh-century-AD example from Punta Secca, Sicily, in context’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 35 (2016), 413–432
178. ‘Sheppard Sunderland Frere, 1916–2015’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 15 (2016), 247–276
179. ‘La Sicilia romana e il mare,’ in S. Tusa (ed.), Mirabilia maris: tesori dei mari di Sicilia. Catalogo della mostra, Palermo: Regione Siciliana 2016, 77–83
2017
180. Dining with the dead in early Byzantine Sicily. Excavations at Punta Secca near Ragusa (Eleventh BABESCH Byvanck Lecture), Leiden: BABESCH Foundation 2017, pp. 38
181. ‘UBC Excavations of the Roman villa at Gerace (EN), Sicily: results of the 2015 season’, Mouseion 14 (2017), 253–316
182. ‘Sui primi ditali: un esempio del VII sec. d.C. da Punta Secca (RG) e il suo contesto’, in G. G. Mellusi and R. Moscheo (eds.), Ktema eis aei. Studi in memoria di Giacomo Scibona, Messina: Società Messinese di Storia Patria, Messina 2017, 489–514
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2018
184. ‘Roman villas in Sicily’, in A, Marzano and G. Métraux (eds.), The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018, 195–219
185. ‘Roman villas in North Africa’, in A, Marzano and G. Métraux (eds.), The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018, 266–307
186. ‘The Indirizzo Roman baths’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 31 (2018), 193–221 [with M. Liuzzo and G. Margani]
187. ‘UBC Excavations of the Roman villa at Gerace (EN), Sicily: results of the 2016 season’, Mouseion15 (2018), 219–296
188. ‘Hagios, hagios, hagios: una insolita iscrizione proto-bizantina e il relativo disegno da Punta Secca (RG)’, Sicilia Archeologica 109 (2017 [pub. 2018]), 136–157
189. ‘Scavi alla villa romana di Gerace (EN): risultati della campagna 2015’, Sicilia Antiqua 15 (2018), 287–314
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191. ‘Archaeology and earthqukes in late Roman Sicily: unpacking the myth of the terrae motus per totum orbem of AD 365′, in M. A. Bernabò Brea, M. Cultraro, M. Gras, M. C. Martinelli, C. Pouzadoux and U. Spigo (eds.), À Madeleine Cavalier, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 49, Naples: Centre Jean Bérard 2019, 455–466
192. ‘Philippianus and his rural estate in late Roman Sicily’, Current World Archaeology 89 (June/July 2018), 16–23
193. ‘Selbstdarstellung im römischen Stil: Philippianus und sein Landgut im spätrömischen Sizilien’, Antike Welt 2018.5 (2018), 46–55
194. ‘Gerace update’, Current World Archaeology 92 (December 2018/January 2019), 14–15
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2019
196. ‘UBC Excavations of the Roman villa at Gerace (EN), Sicily: results of the 2017 season’, Mouseion 16 (2019), 249–342
197. ‘Con Philippiano nella tenuta di Gerace’, Archeologia Viva 195 (May/June 2019), 22–39
198. ‘Mosaics at the late Roman estate of Gerace’, Mosaic: Journal of the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics 46 (2019), 17–33
199. ‘Philippianus and his rural estate in late Roman Sicily: recent excavations at Gerace near Enna’, in P. Higgs and D. Booms (eds.), Sicily: Heritage of the World, British Museum Research Publications 222, London: British Museum 2019, 88–101
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202. ‘A woman with a grave affliction: an archaeological detective story from Punta Secca, Sicily’, Antiqvvs 2.1 (January 2020), 26–32
203. ‘The baths on the estate of the Philippiani at Gerace, Sicily,’ AJA 124 (2020), 477–510 (with an Appendix by M. Liuzzo), and with on-line image gallery at https://www.ajaonline.org/imagegallery/4143#1
204. ‘Foreword’, in A. Lindhagen, Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory. Settlement, Trade and Productiion on the Nebrodi Coast of Sicily, 500 BC – AD 500 [UBC Studies in the Ancient World 3], Oxford: Oxbow Books 2020, pp. vii–viii
205. ‘Philippianus: a late Roman Sicilian landowner and his use of the monogram’, in A. Gatzke, L. L. Brice and A,. Trundell (eds.), People and Institutions in the Roman Empire. Essays in Memory of Garrett G. Fagan, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2020, 183–229
2021
206. ‘UBC Excavations of the Roman villa at Gerace (EN), Sicily: results of the 2018 season’, Mouseion3 17 (2020) [publ. 2021], 95–212
207. ‘The praedia Philippianorum: a late Roman estate at Gerace near Enna’, in C. Prescott, A. Karivieri, P. Campbell, K. Görannsson and S. Tusa (eds.), Trinacria. ‘An Island outside Time’. International Archaeology in Sicily, Oxford: Oxbow Books 2021, 19–32
208. ‘Aspects of identity: Provincia Sicilia during the Roman Empire’, in O. Belvedere and J. Bergemann (eds), Imperium romanum: Romanization between Colonization and Globalization, Palermo: Palermo University Press 2021, 309–332
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Awards
Grants, Honours, Prizes
1971 Charles Oldham Scholar, University of Oxford
1971–73 Thomas Witcombe Greene Scholar in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford
1983–94 Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
1984– Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
1987–89 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Fellow, Archäologisches Institut, University of Bonn
1998 Togo Salmon Visiting Professor of Classics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2001–02 Balsdon Senior Research Fellow, British School at Rome
2002 Ian Sanders Memorial Lecturer, University of Sheffield
2007 Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America
2012 Getty Research Institute Guest Fellow in Residence, Los Angeles
2013 UBC Killam Prize for Research 2012
2017 Dalrymple Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow/Glasgow Archaeological Society, Scotland
2017 Byvanck Lecturer in Archaeology, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands
2021 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2022 Atlantic Provinces Lecturer, Classical Association of Canada
2023 UBC Emeritus College Award for Excellence in Innovative and Creative Endeavours*
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