Simon Keay
Simon Keay
Expert in Classical and Historical Archaeology
Simon Keay is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Southampton and Research Professor at the British School at Rome.
He has worked at Portus, the ancient port of Rome for the past ten years. For the last three years he has directed the Portus Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), investigating and excavating the site of the original port of Rome, close to the present day international airport at Fiamicino. This project is co-directed by Dr Graeme Earl of the University of Southampton and Professor Martin Millett of the University of Cambridge with the Soprintendenza di Beni Archeologici di Ostia Antica.
Simon’s research centres around the archaeology of the Roman Empire, with particular emphasis on trade, urbanism and culture change in the western Mediterranean.
Among his other projects, Simon has undertaken fieldwork in Spain at Tarragona, Peñaflor and Italica, including the AHRC-funded project Urban Connectivity in Iron-Age and Roman Southern Spain. He was also co-director of the AHRC-funded Roman towns in the Tiber Valley Project, the publication of which is nearly complete, and Director of the AHRC-funded project Roman Amphorae: A Digital Resource.
He speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and French and has a good knowledge of Catalan, Portuguese and German.
His publications include:
Keay, S. Millett, M. Paroli, L. Patterson, H., Strutt, K. (2006), Portus. An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome 1998-2001. Rome: British School at Rome & Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia.
Keay, S. Creighton, J. & Remesal Rodríguez, J. (2001), Celti (Peñaflor). La Arqueolgía de una ciudad hispanorromana en la Bética. Seville: Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía.
Keay, S. Creighton, J. & Remesal Rodríguez, J. (2000), Celti (Peñaflor). The Archaeology of a Hispano Roman Town in Baetica. University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph No.2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
