Judith McKenzie

BA (Hons), PhD

Member of the Faculties of Oriental Studies and Classics

Research Interests

Art, archaeology and architecture of Alexandria and its influence in the eastern Mediterranean, from the Hellenistic to early Islamic period. Cultural complexity in Egypt and Syro-Palestine during the same period.

Nabataean sculpture and architecture, especially at Petra and Khirbet et-Tannur.

Late Antique Egyptian (‘Coptic’) and Byzantine art and architecture.

Relationships between Christianity and paganism, as well as Judaism and Islam, reflected in religious buildings and their art.

Selected Publications

The Architecture of Petra (Oxford University Press 1990, repr. 1995, repr. Oxbow Books 2005).

 The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, 300 B.C.– A.D. 700 (Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, London 2007).

‘The Architectural Style of Roman and Byzantine Alexandria and Egypt’, in Archaeological Research in Roman Egypt, ed. D. M. Bailey, 128–42, Journal of Roman Archaeology Suppl. 19 (Ann Arbor 1996).

‘Khirbat at-Tannur in the ASOR Nelson Glueck Archive and the Reconstruction of the Temple’, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 46, 2002, 451–76 (with A. T. Reyes and S. Gibson).

‘Carvings in the Desert: the Sculpture of Petra and Khirbet et-Tannur’, in Petra Rediscovered, Lost City of the Nabataeans, ed. G. Markoe, 169–95 (New York 2003).

‘Glimpses of Alexandria from Archaeological Evidence’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 16, 2003, 35–61.

‘Reconstructing the Serapeum in Alexandria from the Archaeological Evidence’, Journal of Roman Studies 94, 2004, 73–114 (with S. Gibson and A. T. Reyes).

‘The Place in Late Antique Alexandria “where the Alchemists and Scholars sit … was like Stairs” ’, in Alexandria: Auditoria of Kom el-Dikka and Late Antique Education, ed. T. Derda, T. Markiewicz, and E. Wipszycka, 53–83, Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Suppl. 8 (Warsaw 2007).

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