Sebastian Heath, Research Scientist

A.B., Medieval Studies, Brown University; Ph.D., Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan

Sebastian Heath is a specialist in Roman pottery, numismatics and the application of digital technologies to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world. He has participated in excavation and survey in Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Current research includes the publication of Roman pottery from the Lower City at Troy. He is co-editor with Billur Tekkök of the digital publication Greek, Roman and Byzantine Pottery at Ilion (Troia) and also co-edits The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: Internet Edition. Dr. Heath currently serves as the Vice President for Professional Responsibilities of the Archaeological Institute of America and is a Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where he teaches in the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.

Selected Publication:

• (with D. Yoon). "A sixth-century tremissis from Psalmodi (Gard, France)." American Journal of Numismatics Second Series 13 (2001): 63-80.
• Roman Provinicial Coins and Imperial Chronology from Elagabalus to Valerian in ANS Magazine.
• "A Box Mirror Made from Two Antinous Medallions of Smyrna." American Journal of Numismatics Second Series 18 (2006): 63-74.
• (forthcoming). "Diversity and Reuse of Digital Resources for Ancient Mediterranean Material Culture" in Bodard and Mahony, eds., Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity Aldershot: Ashgate.

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