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Dr Amanda Kelly

University Fellow for Teaching and Research in Classics
First Year BA and MA in Classics Co-ordinator

Office: Tower 2, Room 506
Phone: 091 495782
E-mail: amanda.kellynuigalway.ie

Dr. Amanda Kelly holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin for research on the Roman Aqueducts and Bathhouses of Crete. She has lectured widely on ancient and medieval archaeology, and was awarded a Fulbright in 2004 at Harvard University.

Her research interests include hydraulic architecture (including aqueducts, bathhouses and mills), Roman art and architecture as political propaganda, epigraphic studies, Greek warfare and engineering, Greek athletics and concepts of beauty.

Amanda has directed excavations in Ireland and Jordan and has contributed to work at Cretan sites as a Roman and Late Roman ceramic specialist. Recently, she has published research targeting Mediterranean trade with Ireland in the Early Medieval period, building on her identification of eastern Mediterranean ceramics discovered in stratified contexts in Ireland.

Current research Projects

Karpathos Project

Mediterranean Ceramics found in Irish Archaeological contexts

Roman to Early Byzantine Ceramics from the Malia Survey; The Basilica and the wider marshlands (Malia Survey directed by Dr. Sylvie Müller Celka, CNRS in Lyons)

Publications

Kelly, A. (forthcoming) Roman Finewares from Sector II Pyrgi, Eleutherna. Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting for Archaeological Work in Crete. Β΄ Παγκρήτια Επιστημονική Συνάντηση. Αρχαιολογικό 'Εργο στην Κρήτη, 26-28 Νοεμβρίου 2010. [conference link]

Kelly, A. (forthcoming) Roman Bathhouses on Crete as Indicators of Cultural Transition. In A. Gardner, E. Herring and K. Lomas (eds) Constructing Identities: Culture and Ethnicity in the Roman World. Institute of Classical Studies.

Kelly, A. 2012 (in press) The Cretan Slinger at War: a weighty exchange. Annual of the British School of Athens.

Kelly, A. 2012 A Neo-Assyrian relief in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities, Trinity College Dublin; a case study in artefact acquisition. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 112C, 61-93.

Kelly, A. 2011 Occide, verbera, ure! Kill him, Flog him, Burn him Alive! (Seneca Epistles 7); The popularity, extent and duration of Roman Spectacula on Crete. Proceedings of the 10^th International Congress of Cretan Studies 1-6^th October 2006. Vol. 5A. Chania, 77-94.

Kelly, A. 2010 The Discovery of Phocaean Red Slip Ware (PRSW) Form 3 and Bii ware (LR1 amphorae) on sites in Ireland - an analysis within a broader framework. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110C, 35-88.

Kelly, A. 2009 Imported Pottery (PRSW/ Bii ware): APPENDIX 10a. In R. O’Hara 2009 Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Collierstown 1, Co. Meath. A008/015, E3068. Final Report. M3 Clonee–Kells Motorway Collierstown 1. Contract 2 Dunshaughlin-Navan. Report prepared on behalf of ACS Ltd. for the National Roads Authority. [PDF]

Kelly, A. 2008 Mediterranean Pottery on the M3: a Turkish Import in County Meath. Seanda - NRA Archaeology Magazine 3, 16-18. [PDF]

Kelly, A. 2006 The Roman Baths of Mylopotamos: a distribution study. International Conference for Mylopotamos, Rethymno. October 2003, 239-252.

Kelly, A. 2006 Distributions of Cretan Aqueducts; a window onto Romanisation. The 9th International Congress of Cretan Studies 1-6th October 2001. Herakleion, 391-405.

Kelly, A. 2006 The Impact of Constructing Aqueducts on the Settlement Patterns of Roman Crete. Cura Aquarum in Ephesus. The 12th International Conference on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region. Ephesus. October 2-10, 2004. Volume II. Leuven, 303-310.

Kelly, A., Day, J., Cybelle, G., Hall, H., Matassa, L., McAleese, K., Saunders, E. and Stritch, D. (ed.) 2006 SOMA 2004. Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology. BAR International Series 1514. Oxford.

Kelly, A., Politis, K. D., Hull, D. and Foote, R. 2005 Survey and Excavations at Ghawr as-Safi 2004. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49, 313-326.

Kelly, A.M., Politis, K. D. and Usman, L. 2005 Survey and excavations at Khirbat Kazūn 2004. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 49, 327-337.

Kelly, A. 2004-2005 In Search of a Roman Bath-house in the Malia Area. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 128-129 (2.1), 607-627.

Book Reviews

Kelly, A. 2013 (in press) Review of F.K. Yegül 2010 Bathing in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Journal of Roman Studies.

Kelly, A. 2010 Review of B. Hobson, Latrinae et Foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London: Duckworth, 2009. In Classics Ireland 17, 125-129.

Kelly, A. 2008 Review of M. Emerson, Greek Sanctuaries: An Introduction. London Bristol Classical Press, 2007. In Classics Ireland 15, 97-100.

Excavation and Specialist reports

Kelly, A. June 2010 (Specialist Report) An African Red Slip Sherd From Kilree 3, Co. Kilkenny (AR093, E3643) (N9/N10 Rathclogh to Powerstown), on behalf of Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. for the National Roads Authority.

Kelly, A. et al. 2010 Preliminary and Final Report - Archaeological Excavations at Grange 5, M3 Clonee–North of Kells motorway scheme, on behalf of Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. for the National Roads Authority.

Kelly, A. et al. 2010 Preliminary and Final Report - Archaeological Excavations at Grange 3, M3 Clonee–North of Kells motorway scheme, on behalf of Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. for the National Roads Authority.

Kelly, A. et al. 2010 Preliminary and Final Report - Archaeological Excavations at Grange 2, M3 Clonee–North of Kells motorway scheme, on behalf of Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. for the National Roads Authority.

Committee and Board Membership

Current - Managing Committee of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens

Current - Royal Irish Academy Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies

2010-2011 - Judge of the Ancient and Classical Studies section of The Undergraduate Awards of Ireland & Northern Ireland

 

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