Professor Ben Russell (MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FSA Scot)

Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire; Postgraduate Research Director

Biography

Background

I took an MA in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, followed by the MSt and DPhil in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford. My doctoral work, which I finished in 2009, was on the Roman stone trade and was completed as part of the wider Oxford Roman Economy Project. Between 2009 and 2010 I worked on a post-doctoral project at the British School in Rome, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on the Roman sarcophagus trade. In 2010-2011 I worked as a Teaching Assistant in Classical Archaeology at St John’s College in the University of Oxford and lectured both there and at Birkbeck on Hellenistic and Roman art, architecture and archaeology. Between 2011 and 2013 I worked on the Leverhulme-funded Art of Making project on Roman sculptural techniques at King’s College London. I joined the department in Edinburgh in 2013, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017, and to a Personal Chair in 2023. In 2019 I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology. Between 2020 and 2023 I was on the editorial team of the Journal of Roman Archaeology.

External appointments

  • Member, Editorial Board (2016-present), Journal of Greek Archaeology
  • Associate Editor (2020-23), Journal of Roman Archaeology 
  • External Examiner, King's College London and Royal Holloway (2017-20)

Responsibilities & affiliations

Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

Undergraduate teaching

First-year courses:

  • Roman World 1A
  • Roman World 1B
  • Greek World 1B
  • Classical Archaeology in the Field and Museum

Second-year courses:

  • Roman Art and Archaeology
  • Transformation of the Roman World

Honours courses:

  • Roman Architecture
  • Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Postgraduate teaching

  • Roman Sculpture
  • Archaeology of the Roman Economy
  • Hellenistic Art and Archaeology
  • Skills and Methods in Classics

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I am happy to supervise MScR or PhD students working on Roman and late antique archaeological topics, ideally those focused on Britain, Italy, Asia Minor or North Africa, and/or on building, sculpture or the economy. 

Current PhD students supervised

  • Alex Bridges - Late Antique Iconoclasm: the Evidence from Egypt - PhD
    • Secondary Supervisor
    • Started 2021
  • Ines Ferjan - The Roman Stone Trade in the Inland Balkans: Quarrying, Carving and Transport - PhD
    • Primary Supervisor 
    • Started 2021
  • Philip Harrison - Coloured Decorative Stone and its Ideological Significance in Late Antique Italy - PhD
    • Primary Supervisor
    • Submitted
  • Alex Hiscock - Curating Intangible Online Heritage: The Case of the Antonine Wall and Roman Scotland - PhD
    • Secondary Supervisor
    • Started 2021
  • Benedicta Yi Xin Lin - The Mechanical Properties of Turf (in the School of Engineering).- PhD
    • Secondary Supervisor
    • Started 2019

Past PhD students supervised

  • Martina Astolfi - Stone and the Built Landscape on Roman Cyprus: Case Studies of Kourion and Amathus - PhD
    • Primary supervisor 
    • Completed 2022
  • Vincenzo Castaldo - Ceramics and the Economy of Late Antique Campania - PhD
    • Joint Supervisor
    • Completed 2022
  • Richard Kendall - Cultural Memory in Early Roman Olbia Pontica - PhD
    • Joint Supervisor
    • Completed 2024
  • Lucia Michielin - Fores et fenestrae: A Computational Study of Doors and Windows in Roman Domestic Space - PhD
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2019
  • Andrew McLean - Modelling Ancient Market Integration: Adriatic Oil and Wine in the Early Roman Empire - PhD
    • Primary supervisor 
    • Completed 2022
  • Meg Moodie - Between the Desert and the Deep: The Lived Experience of the Funerary Landscape of the Ancient Maghreb - PhD
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2019
  • Pier Luigi Morbidoni - Freedom and Citizenship in the Roman Empire: Legal and Epigraphic Approaches to Status Identification - PhD
    • Secondary supervisor
    • Completed 2019
  • Alana Newman - The Manufactured Nature of Ptolemaic Royal Representation and the Question of Agency: An Analysis of the Portraiture of Queen Arsinoë II - PhD
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2017
  • Rory Nutter - Impacts and Reactions to the Roman Conquest of Italy through the Lens of Epigraphy - PhD
    • Secondary supervisor
    • Completed 2020
  • Katy O'Donnell - The Quarries of Hadrian's Wall: The Materials and Logistics of a Large-Scale Imperial Building Project - PhD
    • Joint supervisor
    • Completed 2021
  • James Page 'Carrying up it all the Products of the Sea': Mapping Trade in the Po Basin, 42 BC - AD 284 - PhD
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2022
  • Tim Penn - Beyond the Grave: The Funerary Landscapes of the Italian Peninsula, ca. 1-700 CE - PhD
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2022
  • Matteo Randazzo - The Byzantine-Islamic Transition on Sicily and Crete - PhD
    • Secondary supervisor 
    • Completed 2021
  • Fraser Reed - The Urbes Thraciarum in Late Antiquity: An Archaeological Assessment of the Cities of Thracia from Diocletian to Maurice (AD 284-602) - PhD
    • Secondary supervisor 
    • Completed 2020
  • Lauren MacGregor - Decorating a Roman Villa: The Vacone Villa in Italy - MScR
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2018
  • Andrew McLean - Economic Specialization in Central Italy - MScR
    • Joint supervisor
    • Completed 2016
  • Katy O'Donnell - The Quarries of the Central Sector of Hadrian's Wall - MScR
    • Joint supervisor
    • Completed 2015
  • James Page - In Tuscis: An Examination of the Economy and Connectivity of the Upper Tiber Valley - MScR
    • Primary supervisor
    • Completed 2017

Research summary

Places: 

  • Britain & Ireland
  • Europe
  • Mediterranean
  • Near East
  • Scotland

Themes: 

  • Ancient Civilisations
  • Culture
  • Economic History
  • Labour
  • Landscapes & Monuments
  • Material Culture
  • Society

Periods: 

  • Antiquity
  • Medieval

While I am interested in all aspects of archaeology, my research focuses on Roman art, architecture, and the ancient economy. I have worked especially on the production and supply of materials for construction and artistic production in the Roman world and what this reveals about Roman craftsmen and their relationship with their customers. Stone and stone carving have featured prominently in my research but more recently I have become interested in the use of earthen materials in construction projects, especially in the northern provinces of the Roman world. I have also worked on ancient craft production more generally, economic geography, urbanism and monumentality, ethnic representations in Roman art, and maritime archaeology.

I am a field archaeologist and have worked on a wide range of projects in Britain, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Libya, North Macedonia, Tunisia, and Türkiye. 

Current research activities

I am currently working on a book on Roman stone carvers and their craft, which explores both the social and economic positions of these craftspeople and the technical evidence for their working process. Through my interest in building materials and the exploitation of natural resources I have also become increasingly involved in work on vernacular architecture in the Roman world and especially the use of soil-based  materials (mudbrick, rammed earth, cob and turf). I have directed, with Dr Chris Beckett in the School of Engineering, a Leverhulme-funded project on earth and turf construction in the Roman North-West (2018-2023). This project, Earthen Empire, examined archaeological remains for earth and turf buildings and their architectural and geotechnical properties in order to explore how these overlooked materials were employed, where and why, and what this can tell us about the persistence of pre-Roman building traditions as well as the movement of techniques following the Roman conquest. 

In the field, I direct the University of Edinburgh-Apolline Project excavations at the Roman city of Aeclanum in the Irpinia region of inland Campania, with Dr Ferdinando De Simone (Apolline Project). This project examines the urban development and palaeoenvironment of the site from the pre-Roman to late antique periods. We have now finished full excavations and are working on the post-excavation stage of the project. I am also a staff member of the University of Oxford and New York University excavations at Aphrodisias in Türkiye, where I have been working in recent years with Prof. Andrew Wilson on the publication of the excavations in the so-called 'Place of Palms'. In 2023, I started a new project on the late antique North Temenos House at the site and a new geophysical survey with Dr Melda Küçükdemirci at Istanbul University. I have previously worked on, and I am now involved in the publication of, the University of Oxford and INP excavations at Utica in Tunisia.

Research projects

2023-: Excavations in the North Temenos House, Aphrodisias

2018-2023: Earthen Empire: Earth and Turf Building in the Roman North West (Leverhulme Trust RPG-2018-223) - PI, with Dr Chris Beckett (CI), Dr Tanja Romankiewicz (RA), and Dr Riley Snyder (RA)

2011-2018: Ahmet and Mica Ertegün South Agora Pool Project, Aphrodisias

Knowledge exchange

Public Archaeology forms a key component of our fieldwork at Aeclanum, which I direct with Dr Ferdinando De Simone (Naples). In addition to regular open days, primarily for school children, we have produced information panels about the site and are even working on a comic book for a younger audience in collaboration with our resident illustrator and project manager, Zofia Guertin; the results of this work can be seen on the ArchaeoKids website. As part of the Earthen Empire project, I also created an online exhibition about Roman turf with Dr Rose Ferraby and the project team.

Books

Wilson, A.I. and Russell, B. in press. The Place of Palms: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias (Aphrodisias XIV). Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Russell, B. 2013 (paperback 2019). The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Edited books

Russell, B. (ed.) in press. A Cultural History of Craft in Antiquity (Bloomsbury Cultural History of Craft, Volume 1). London: Bloomsbury.

Hochscheid, H. and Russell, B. (eds) 2021. The Value of Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production (Studies in Classical Archaeology 13). Turnhout: Brepols.

Mladenović, D. and Russell, B. (eds) 2011. TRAC 2010. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Oxford 2010. Oxford: Oxbow.

 

Journal articles

Russell, B., De Simone, G.F., Castaldo, V., and Morbidoni, P.L. in press. 'Three perspectives on late antique Aeclanum in its regional context: buildings, inscriptions, and ceramics', Studies in Late Antiquity [accepted 2021].

Barker, S. and Russell, B. in press. 'Comparative sources for quarry logistics, workforces and operational costs - their implications for antiquity', Aedificare: International Journal of Construction History [accepted 2023].

Mammato, A., Russell, B., and De Simone, G.F. 2023 [2024]. 'Late antique coin circulation in a changing cityscape: the case of Aeclanum (Campania, Italy)', Antiquité Tardive 31: 255-259.

Romankiewicz, T., Russell, B., Snyder, J.R, and Beckett, C.T.S. 2023. 'Das Forschungsprojekt 'Earthen Empire': wie die Römer ein 'Erd-Reich' bauten', Der Limes 17.1: 16-21.

Romankiewicz, T., Russell, B., Bailey, G., Gardner, T., Snyder, J.R, and Beckett, C.T.S. 2022. ''Another wall of turf': geoarchaeological analysis of the Antonine Wall at 72 Grahamsdyke Street, Laurieston, Falkirk', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 151: 103-141 (https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.151.1353 (open access)).

Russell, B., Romankiewicz, T., Gardner, T., Birley, A., Snyder, J.R, and Beckett, C.T.S. 2021. 'Building with turf at Roman Vindolanda: multi-scalar analysis of earthen materials, construction techniques, and landscape context', Archaeological Journal: 169-210 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00665983.2021.1949148 (open access)).

Penn, T., Russell, B., and Wilson, A.I. 2021. 'On the Roman-Byzantine adoption of the stirrup once more: a new find from seventh-century Aphrodisias in Caria', Anatolian Studies 71: 129-139 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154621000077 (open access)).

Russell, B. and Leidwanger, J. 2020 [2021]. 'The energetics of lost cargoes: a new perspective on the late antique Marzamemi 2 wreck', Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 65: 194-260 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/27031299 (open access)).

Russell, B. and De Simone, G.F. 2020. 'New excavations in the central and southern sectors of Aeclanum in 2019 (Comune di Mirabella Eclano, Provincia di Avellino, Regione Campania)', Papers of the British School at Rome 88: 368-373.

Russell, B. 2019 [2020]. 'The marble architecture of central Utica (Tunisia)', Marmora 15: 39-56.

Russell, B. 2019 [2020]. 'Sculpture new and old from the Antonine basilica at Utica', Archäologischer Anzeiger 2019/2: 206-235 (https://publications.dainst.org/journals/index.php/aa/article/view/2362 (open access)).

De Simone, G.F. and Russell, B. 2019. 'Excavation and survey at Aeclanum in 2018 (Comune di Mirabella Eclano, Provincia di Avellino, Regione Campania)', Papers of the British School at Rome 87: 336-340.

De Simone, G.F. and Russell, B. 2019. 'The late-antique eruption of Vesuvius in AD 472 and its impact from the Bay of Naples to Aeclanum', Journal of Roman Archaeology 32: 359-389.

Ben Jerbania, I., Dufton, J.A., Fentress, E., and Russell, B. 2019. 'Utica's urban centre from Augustus to the Antonines', Journal of Roman Archaeology 32: 66-96.

Russell, B. 2018. 'Stone quarrying in Greece: ten years of research', Archaeological Reports 63: 77-88.

De Simone, G.F. and Russell, B. 2018. 'New work at Aeclanum (Comune di Mirabella Eclano, Provincia di Avellino, Regione Campania)', Papers of the British School at Rome 86: 298-301.

Amiet, B., Barker, S., and Russell, B. 2018. 'The marble-clad bars of Ostia', Forum Romanum Belgicum 15: 1-7.

Donev, D., Gorgievski, D., Jacobs, I., Mladenović, D., Russell, B., and Strutt, K. 2017. ‘Kostoperska Karpa: new results from an integrated intensive field and remote sensing survey’, Patrimonium.Mk: Periodical for Cultural Heritage 15: 73-90.

Russell, B. 2015. 'A sculpted head of an African woman in the British Museum', Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 121: 509–34.

Russell, B. and Glicksman, K. 2015. 'Recent work on Roman quarries near Korčula and on Brač', Vjesnik za arheologiju i povijest dalmatinsku 108: 223–44.

Russell, B. 2013. ‘Roman and Late Antique shipwrecks with stone cargoes: a new inventory’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 26: 331-61.

Fant, J.C., Russell, B., and Barker, S.J., 2013. ‘Marble use and re-use at Pompeii and Herculaneum: the view from the bars’, Papers of the British School at Rome 82: 181-209.

Russell, B. 2008. ‘The dynamics of stone transport between the Roman Mediterranean and its hinterland’, Facta: A Journal of Roman Material Culture Studies 2: 107–26.

 

Book chapters and other contributions

Russell, B., Chaniotis, A., and Wilson, A., in press. 'Gaming in the Place of Palms at Aphrodisias', in Games in the Ancient World: Places, Spaces, Accessories (Instrumentum Monograph Series), ed by. T. Penn, A. Pace and U. Schädler. Montagnac: Instrumentum [accepted 2023].

Romankiewicz, T., Russell, B. Beckett, C.T.S., Snyder, J.R., and Ferraby, R., in press. 'Erd-Reich - Earthen Empire: Eine Übersicht zu neuen, geoarchäologischen Untersuchungen zum Rasensodenbau am römischen Limes', in Supplying the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, ed. by H. van Enckevort, M. Driessen, E. Graafstal, T. Hazenberg, T. Ivleva and C. Van Driel-Murray. Leiden: Sidestone [accepted 2022].

Russell, B. and De Simone, G.F. 2023. 'A town and its road: Aeclanum on the Via Appia', in Roman Urbanism in Italy, ed. by A. Launaro and M. Millett. Oxford: Oxbow, 190-210 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9941113 (open access)).

Russell, B., Beckett, C., Romankiewicz, T., Snyder, J.R., and Yi Xin Lin, B., 2023. 'Turf structures in the Roman North and beyond', in Terra, legno e materiali deperibili nell'architettura antica, ed. by J. Bonetto and C. Previato. Padua: Università degli Studi di Padova, 865-881.

Russell, B., Beckett, C., Romankiewicz, T., Snyder, J.R., and Ferraby, R. 2023. '...incorrupti imbribus, ventis, ignibus omnique caemento firmiores? Earthen building materials in the Roman West', in Architectures of the Roman World, ed. by N. Mugnai. Oxford: Oxbow, 5-21.

Yi Xin Lin, B., Beckett, C., Romankiewicz, T., Snyder, J.R., and Russell, B. 2023. 'Unlocking the water retention behaviour of turf construction materials', in 8th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2023). ES5 Web of Conferences 382, 17008 (https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338217008 (open access)).

Snyder, J.R., Russell, B., Romankiewicz, T. and Beckett, C.T.S. 2023. 'The energetics of earth and turf construction in the Roman world', in From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World. Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine, ed. by S. Barker, C. Courault, J. Domingo and D. Maschek. Oxford: Archaeopress, 135-158.

Barker, S. and Russell, B. 2023. 'Beyond labour figures: the 'hidden' costs of stoneworking and their application in architectural energetics', in From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World. Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine, ed. by S. Barker, C. Courault, J. Domingo and D. Maschek. Oxford: Archaeopress, 15-42.

Kidd, A. and Russell, B. 2023. 'Polychrome marble at Aphrodisias: the interior scheme of the North Stoa of the Place of Palms', in ASMOSIA XII, ed. by A.N. Yavuz, B. Yolaçan and M. Bruno. Izmir: Dokuz Eylül University, 105-114.

Astolfi, M., Russell, B., Harrison, P., De Simone, G.F., and Mesisca, A. 2023. 'Marble at Aeclanum (Italy): new evidence from three public buildings', in ASMOSIA XII, ed. by A.N. Yavuz, B. Yolaçan and M. Bruno. Izmir: Dokuz Eylül University, 175-183.

Castaldo, V., De Simone, G.F., and Russell, B. 2023. 'Sea or land? Trade from the coast to the fringes of Campania', in Late Roman Coarse Wares VI - Land and Sea: Pottery Routes, ed. by V. Caminneci, E. Giannitrapani, M.C. Parello and M.S. Rizzo (Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 19). Oxford: Archaeopress, 88-100.

Russell, B. 2021. 'Roman stone carvers and their chaîne opératoire', in The Value of Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production, ed. by H. Hochscheid and B. Russell (Studies in Classical Archaeology). Turnhout: Brepols, 71-88. 

Hochscheid, H. and Russell, B. 2021. 'Introduction - new approaches to old crafts', in The Value of Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production, ed. by H. Hochscheid and B. Russell (Studies in Classical Archaeology). Turnhout: Brepol, 1-10.

Russell, B. 2021. 'The Antonine Basilica at Utica (Tunisia)', in The Basilica in Roman Palestine: Adoption and Adaption Processes in Light of Comparanda in Italy and North Africa, ed. by A. Dell'Acqua and O. Peleg-Barkat. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 215-240.

Russell, B. and Wootton, W. 2021. 'Carving the Palmyrene portrait reliefs: preliminary observations from the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek', in Production Economy in Roman Greater Syria: Trade Networks and Production Processes, ed. by R. Raja and J. Steding (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History). Turnhout: Brepols, 9-16.

Russell, B. 2021. 'Shipments great and small: moving building materials by sea', in Building BIG - Constructing Economies: From Design to Long-Term Impact of Large Scale Building Project. Panel 3.6 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World - Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018), ed. by J. Pakkanen and A. Brysbaert. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 95-108.(https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.850.c10939)

Russell, B. 2020. 'Roman sculptors at work: professional practitioners?', in Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. by E. Stewart, E. Harris, and D. Lewis. Cambridge: CUP, 243-65.

Romankiewicz, T., Milek, K., Beckett, C., Russell, B., and Snyder, J.R. 2020. 'New perspectives on the structure of the Antonine Wall', in The Antonine Wall: Papers in Honour of Professor Lawrence Keppie, ed. by D.J. Breeze and W.S. Hanson. Oxford: Archaeopress, 121-41 (https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/download/9781789694505(open access)).

Barker, S. and Russell, B. 2020. 'Historical sources, labour figures and ancient stone working costs', in Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World - Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018: Panel 3.24: Quantifying Ancient Building Economy, edited by M. Heinzelmann and C. Recko. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 1-30. (https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.634)

Russell, B. 2018. 'Simulacra gentium [africanarum]', in Visual Histories: Visual Remains and Histories of the Classical World. Papers in Honour of R.R.R. Smith, ed. by C. Draycott, R. Raja, K. Welch, and W. Wootton. Turnhout: Brepols, 265-80.

Russell, B. 2018. 'Documentary evidence and the Roman stone trade', in Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies, ed. by B. Woytek. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 409-21.

Russell, B. 2018. ''Difficult and costly': stone transport, its constraints, and its impact', in Roman Ornamental Stones in North-Western Europe. Natural Resources, Manufacturing, Supply, Life & After-Life, ed. by C. Coquelet, G. Creemers, R. Dreesen, and É. Goemare. Namur: Agence Wallonne du Patrimoine, 131-50.

Russell, B. 2018. 'Stone use and the economy: demand, distribution, and the state', in Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World, ed. by A. Wilson and A. Bowman. Oxford: OUP, 237-64.

Russell, B. 2018. 'Labour forces at Roman imperial quarries', in ASMOSIA IX. Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone, ed. by D. Matetić Poljak and K. Marasović. Split: University of Split, 733-9.

Russell, B. and Wootton, W. 2017. 'Makers and making: Classical art in action', in The Diversity of Classical Archaeology (Studies in Classical Archaeology 1), ed. by A. Lichtenberger and R. Raja. Turnhout: Brepols, 253-70.

Strapazzon, G., Russell, B, and De Simone, G.F. 2017. ‘Integrating GPR and excavation at Roman Aeclanum (Avellino, Italy)’, in AP2017: 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection, ed. by B. Jennings, C. Gaffney, T. Sparrow, and S. Gaffney. Oxford: Archaeopress, 242-4.

Russell, B. 2016. ‘Imported building materials in North Africa: brick, stone and the role of return cargoes’, in De Africa Romaque: Merging Cultures across North Africa, ed. by J. Nikolaus, M. Mugnai, and N. Ray. Oxford: Society for Libyan Studies, 173-84.

Russell, B. and Fentress, E. 2016. 'Mud brick and pisé de terre between Punic and Roman North Africa', in  Arqueología de la Construcción V, ed. by J. DeLaine, S. Camporeale, and A. Albuerne. Madrid and Merida: Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología, 131-43. 

Russell, B. 2016. 'Mapping the marble quarries', in Aphrodisias Papers 5. Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006–2012. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 103, ed. by R.R.R. Smith, J. Lenaghan, A. Sokolicek, and K. Welch. Portsmouth RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 255–67.

Wilson, A.I., Russell, B., and Ward, A. 2016. 'Excavations in an urban park ('South Agora'), 2012', in Aphrodisias Papers 5. Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006–2012. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 103, ed. by R.R.R. Smith, J. Lenaghan, A. Sokolicek, and K. Welch. Portsmouth RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 77–90.

Russell, B. 2015. ‘Transport and distribution’, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture, ed. by E. A. Friedland, M. G. Sobocinski, and E. Gazda. New York: OUP, 189-205.

Russell, B. and Wootton, W. 2015. 'Presenting and interpreting the process of stone carving: The Art of Making in Antiquity project', in Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. ASMOSIA X, ed. P. Pensabene and E. Gasparini. Rome: L'Erma, 851-60.

Wootton, W. and Russell, B. 2013. 'Carving imperial reliefs at Rome', on The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stoneworking in the Roman World (http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/content/essays/4-carving-imperial-reliefs-at-rome-w-wootton-b-russell/)

Wootton, W., Russell, B., and Rockwell, P. 2013. 'Stoneworking techniques and processes', on The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stoneworking in the Roman World (http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/content/essays/3-stoneworking-techniques-and-processes-w-wootton-b-russell-p-rockwell/)

Wootton, W., Russell, B., and Rockwell, P. 2013. 'Stoneworking tools and toolmarks', on The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stoneworking in the Roman World (http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/content/essays/2-stoneworking-tools-and-toolmarks-w-wootton-b-russell-p-rockwell/)

Wootton, W., Bradley, J. and Russell, B. 2013. 'Making the Art of Making in Antiquity', on The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stoneworking in the Roman World (http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/content/essays/1-making-the-art-of-making-in-antiquity-w-wootton-j-bradley-b-russell/)

Fentress, E., Russell, B., and Ghozzi, F. 2013. ‘Area II: The Basilica and the Forum’, in Excavations at Utica by the Tunisian-British Utica Project 2013, ed. by E. Fentress, F. Ghozzi, J. Quinn, and A. I. Wilson (http://utica.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.php?id=28)

Barker, S. and Russell, B. 2012. ‘Labour figures for Roman stone-working: pitfalls and potential’, in Arqueología de la Construcción III. Los procesos constructivos en el mundo romano: la economía de las obras. Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología 64, ed. by S. Camporeale, H. Dessales, and A. Pizzo. Madrid and Merida: Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología, 83–94.

Russell, B. 2012. ‘Shipwrecks and stone cargoes: some observations’, in Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. ASMOSIA IX, ed. by A. Gutiérrez, P. Lapuente, and I. Rodà. Tarragona: ICAC, 533–9.

Russell, B. and Fachard, S. 2012. ‘New work on quarrying in the territory of Eretria’, in Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. ASMOSIA IX, ed. by A. Gutiérrez, P. Lapuente, and I. Rodà. Tarragona: ICAC, 612–18.

Fentress, E., Russell, B., and Ghozzi, F. 2012. ‘Area 2: The Basilica’, in Excavations at Utica by the Tunisian-British Utica Project 2012, ed. by E. Fentress, F. Ghozzi, J. Quinn, and A. I. Wilson (http://utica.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.php?id=27).

Russell, B. 2011. ‘Lapis transmarinus: stone-carrying ships and the maritime distribution of stone in the Roman empire’, in Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 2008 OCMA Conference, Madrid. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology 7, ed. by D. J. Robinson and A. I. Wilson. Oxford: OCMA, 137–52.

Russell, B. 2011. ‘The Roman sarcophagus ‘industry’: a reconsideration’, in Life, Death and Representation. Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi, ed. by J. Elsner and J. Huskinson. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 119–47.

Russell, B. 2010. ‘Sarcophagi in Roman Britain’, in Romans and Barbarians, ed. by R. Thomas, in Meetings between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Rome, 22-26 Sept. 2008. Bollettino di Archeologia On-Line I, Volume Speciale E, E10, 10, ed. by H. Di Giuseppe and M. Dalla Riva (www.archeologia.beniculturali.it/pages/pubblicazioni.html).

Fentress, E. and Russell, B. 2010. ‘Excavations in Area II, the monumental centre’, in Survey and Excavation at Utica 2010, ed. by N. Kallala, E. Fentress, J. Quinn, and A. I. Wilson (http://utica.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.php?id=20).

Bennett, P. and Russell, B. 2006:, ‘The Eastern Building’, in A. I. Wilson et al. ‘Euesperides 2006: Preliminary report on the Spring 2006 season’, Libyan Studies 37, 117-57.

 

Web resources

Wootton, W., Bradley, J., and Russell, B, 2013. The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stoneworking in the Roman World (www.artofmaking.ac.uk).

Russell, B, 2013. Gazetteer of Stone Quarries in the Roman World, Version 1.0, published on the Oxford Roman Economy Project website (www.romaneconomy.ox.ac.uk).

 

Reviews

2024: Review of: Baratte, F., Bejaoui, F., De Chaisemartin, N., and F. Naït-Yghil (eds), Les sculptures romaines du Musée national du Bardo. 1, Les portraits: empereurs et personnages masculins privés, statues cuirasses, personnages en toge, impératrices et femmes privées, statues féminines drapes, in Libyan Studies.

2023: Review of: Scotton, P.D., De Grazia Vanderpool, C. and Roncaglia, C., The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy (Corinth XXII), in American Journal of Archaeology 127.3 (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725629).

2022: Review of: Rankin, E. and Schneider, R., eds, From Memory to Marble: The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument, in Sculpture Journal 31.3, 395-8.

2019: Review of: Ismaelli, T. and Scardozzi, G., eds, Ancient Quarries and Building Sites in Asia Minor, in Bonner Jahrbücher 218, 442-6.

2019: Review of: Mugnai, N., Architectural Decoration and Urban History in Mauretania Tingitana, in Libyan Studies 50, 179-88.

2019: Review of: Scheidel, W., ed., The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 4, 479-81.

2018: Review of: Alcock, S. E., Egri, M., and J. F. D. Frakes, eds, Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome, in Cambridge Archaeological Journal 28.2, 354-6. 

2017: Review of: Korres, M., The Odeion Roof of Herodes Atticus and Other Giant Spans, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 2:,445-8.

2016: Review of: Coombe, P., Grew, F., Hayward, K., and M. Henig, eds, Roman Sculpture from London and the South-East, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association 169.1, 127-8.

2016: 'Two new books on Roman sarcophagi from Greece', Journal of Greek Archaeology 1: 63-70.

2016: 'Ancient textiles in their economic context', Journal of Greek Archaeology 1: 78-83.

2014: Review of: Archibald, Z.H., Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean: Fifth to First Centuries BC, in Economic History Review 67.4, 1168-9.

2014: Review of: Duthoy, F., Sculpteurs et Commanditaires au IIe siècle après J.-C. Rome et Tivoli, in Classical Review 64, 593-5.

2014: Review of: Birk, S., Depicting the Dead. Self-representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits, in Classical Review 64, 591-3.

2014: Review of: Friedland, E.A., The Roman Marble Sculptures from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi/Panias (Israel), in Levant 46.1, 144-5.

2013: Review of: White, D. with Reynolds, J., The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya. Final Reports, Volume VIII: The Sanctuary’s Imperial Architectural Development, Conflict with Christianity, and Final Days, in Libyan Studies 44, 165-6.

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