Katia Schörle

Period: 2008–2014

Supervisor: Dr Damian Robinson

Thesis: Desert Strategies in the Roman Imperial period: the Eastern desert of Egypt, the Libyan Sahara and Palmyra

Project Description

Long distance trade, particular along the desert frontiers of the Roman empire (Sahara, Eastern Desert of Egypt); Lepcis Magna Coastal Survey; Brick stamps of the Tiber Valley area; Rome and Latium.

CV

Katia Schörle holds a BA and MA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) after finishing her baccalaureate in France. She has worked as a curatorial assistant at the Chazen Museum of Art (University of Wisconsin, Madison) before working in Rome, Italy for ICCROM (Intergovernmental Organization for the preservation of cultural property). She pursued onto an M.Phil. in Classical Archaeology at Oxford (Roman Architecture, Roman Economy, Maritime Archaeology). Her D.Phil. in Classical Archaeology examined Desert Landscapes in the Roman Empire, focusing on the Eastern desert of Egypt, the Libyan Sahara, and the Tadmor desert (Palmyra). She has worked on several excavations in Israel (Tel Dor), in Rome and Ostia, excavations and surveys in Libya (Fezzan, Ghadames, Marmarica, Lepcis) and excavations in Egypt at Berenike, on the Ptolemaic and Roman harbour on the Red Sea, and within the harbour of Alexandria. Her interests range from the coast to the desert in terms of long-distance trade, but she also enjoys working on maritime villas, and brickstamps from Latium and the Tiber Valley.

Publications

Schörle, K. (2011). 'Constructing Port Hierarchies', in D. Robinson and A. Wilson (eds), Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean. Oxford.

Schörle, K. (2011). 'From Harbour to Desert: an Integrated Interface on the Red Sea and its Impact on the Eastern Egyptian Desert'. Bolletino di Archeologia Online.

Schörle, K. (2012). 'Saharan trade in Classical Antiquity', in J. McDougall and J. Scheele (eds), Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa. Bloomington.

Wilson, A. I. and Schörle, K. (2009). 'A baker's funerary relief from Rome'. Papers of the British School at Rome 77: 101–123.

Wilson, A. I., Schörle, K., and Rice, C. (2012). 'Roman ports and Mediterranean connectivity', in S. Keay and T. Gambin (eds) Rome, Portus and the Mediterranean. Rome