Alan Johnston
- MA, D.Phil., FSA
- Emeritus Reader in Classical Archaeology
- Chairman of the Publications committee of the British School at Athens.
- Co-organiser of Classical Archaeology seminars at the Institute of Archaeology.
Research Interests
Collaborations
- Collaborations with the BSA Fitch
Laboratory
- Working on Iron Age pottery from
the excavations of the University of Toronto at Kommos, South Crete
- Working with the Archaeological
Museum Split on inscribed material from sailors' sanctuaries in the Adriatic
- Studying Iron Age pottery from the Pediada survey, Central Crete, in collaboration with the University of the Aegean
Educational Background
- 1950-1961 Bristol Grammar school
- 1961-1969 Merton College, Oxford
- 1961-1965 Postmaster in Classics
- 1965-1967 Diploma in Classical
Archaeology
- 1967-1969 Postgraduate research,
conducted in 1967-1968 at the British School at Athens.
- 1971 D.Phil. degree awarded for
a thesis on Trademarks on Greek Vases
- 1969-1972 Assistant, then assistant
lecturer in Classics, University College, Dublin.
- 1972- Lecturer, Dept. Classical
Archaeology (from 1992, of Greek Archaeology) University College, London
- Johnston, A.W. (2007) Trademarks on Greek Vases. Addenda. Aris and Phillips, Oxford.
- Johnston, A.W. (2006). The Delta; from Gamma to Zeta. in Villing,A., Schlotzhauer,U. (ed.) Naukratis: Greek Diversity in Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 23-30. ISBN: 0142 4815
- Johnston, A.W. (2005). Kommos: further Iron Age pottery. Hesperia 74(3), 309-393
- Johnston, A.W. (2005). Pots and tetrobols. Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152, 115-120
- Johnston, A. (2003). "The alphabet", in V. Karageorghis and N. Stambolidis
(eds.), Interconnections in the Mediterranean, 1600-500 BC, Athens,
University of Crete
and Leventis Foundation, 249-76.
- Johnston, A. (2003). "
The graffiti", in E. Tealeaga and V. Zirra, Die Nekropole des 6-1
Jhs.v.Chr.von Istria Brent bei Histria (Rahden Westfalia, Marie Leidorf)
146.
- Johnston, A. (2003). "Notes on two inscriptions on Cypriot statuettes", Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 144 164-6.
- Johnston, A. with Tina de Domingo, (2003). "A petrographic and chemical
study of East Greek and other archaic transport amphorae", Eulimene 4
- Johnston, A. 2002). Sailors and sanctuaries
of the ancient Greek World. Archaeology International [5]
2001/2:25-28.
- Johnston, A, (2000). The Greek and
Latin inscriptions. Gravisca; scavi nel santuario greco, 15, 11-66.
Le iscrizioni: Bari
- Johnston, A, Czapo, E & Geoghan,
D, (2000). The Inscriptions, Kommos IV, 100-134
- Johnston, A & Souyoudzoglou-Hayward,
C, (2000). Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Ireland, 1, University College
Dublin & University College Cork
- Johnston, A, (2000). Inscriptions on
Pottery. Proceedings of Conference La Sicilia Epigrafica, Erice 1998, Ann.Sc.Norm.Pisa,
1999, 1-2, 407-415
- Johnston, A,( 1993). Pre-classical
Greece, in Sir John Boardman (ed), The Oxford History of Classical Art,
11 - 82. Oxford
