School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Staff

Professor of Roman Archaeology, Classics subject area

Eberhard.Sauer@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 3587
Room 00M.19, Doorway 4, Teviot Place

Eberhard Sauer read Archaeology at the universities of Tübingen, Freiburg i.Br. and Oxford (Keble College). After completing his Master of Studies and Doctorate at Oxford, he taught at the School of Archaeology & Ancient History at Leicester from 1999 to 2001. He then returned as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow to Oxford (2001-2003). Since 2003 he has been a Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Edinburgh University’s School of History & Classics, since 2006/07 a Reader and since 2008 a Professor.

His interests focus on the Roman Empire and more recently also Sasanian Persia, notably the linear walls in northern Iran. To find out more about the joint Iranian and British project on the frontier walls in Iran, see the article in Current World Archaeology 27, 2008 [PDF of article].

Since 1996 he has excavated the Claudian military base at Alchester in Oxfordshire. In his D.Phil. (an expanded version of which has been published in 2005) he examined how the Italian custom of depositing coins in springs was imported into Augustan Gaul. He is also interested in other aspects religion, notably image destruction and Christian fundamentalism in the late Roman world as well as in other field of research (e.g. epigraphy, numismatics, Roman military archaeology in general, the relation between Archaeology and Ancient History etc.).

See School Theses Archive

• Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire
  
• The Reach of Rome
  
• Inscribed Objects