RRR Smith

Roland Ralph Redfern Smith , known only as RRR Smith (nickname Bert ), (born January 30, 1954 in Edinburgh ) is a British classical archaeologist .

Life

RRR Smith graduated from Oxford University . 1983 to 1985 he was a Harkness Fellow at Princeton University . From 1986 to 1995 he taught classical archeology at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has been directing its excavation in Aphrodisias since 1991 . In 1995 he moved to Oxford, where he has since taught as Professor of Classical Archeology ( Lincoln Professor of Classical Archeology and Art ). He also heads the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum there .

In 2010 he became a member of the British Academy .

Hellenistic Royal Portraits. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1988.
Hellenistic Sculpture. Thames & Hudson, London 1991.
The Monument of C. Julius Zoilos. Aphrodisias I. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994.
with photos by Ahmet Ertuğ : Sculptured for Eternity. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Istanbul 2002.
Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias. Aphrodisias II. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006.
with photos by Ahmet Ertug: Aphrodisias. City and Sculpture in Roman Asia. Istanbul 2009.
with R. Frederiksen: The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalog of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture. Oxford 2011.
with photos by Ahmet Ertug: The Gods of Nemrud. The Royal Sanctuary of Antiochus I and the Kingdom of Commagene. Istanbul 2012.
The marble reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion. Aphrodisias VI. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2013.
with photos by Ahmet Ertug: Ancient Theaters of Anatolia. Istanbul 2014.
Editor with Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Last Statues of Antiquity. Oxford 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Smith, RRR
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Smith, Roland Ralph Redfern (full name); Smith, Bert (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edinburgh