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Paul Raymond ARTHUR (b. Aldershot, UK, 31 August 1955), generally known as Paul Arthur, is an English archaeologist and academic.
Son of the late Col. R.W.J. Arthur who, after fighting the Second World War in the Middle East, was appointed to the occupation forces in the Free Territory of Trieste (1947-1954). There he met his life-long companion and wife, Germana Laura Rasini, with which they had two sons, Paul and Alex, the latter becoming an internationally-known expert of ethnographic art and culture and editor of the journal “Tribal Arts”.
Paul’s interest in archaeology began whilst still at school, first working on various excavations in and around London (Baynard’s Castle, Southwark, Brentford, Putney, Highgate and Heathrow Airport, with such archaeologists as Harvey Sheldon, Roy Canham and Nick Farrant) and directing an excavation at Fulham together with Keith Whitehouse in 1972, before moving with his parents to Rome. There he studied at The New School and spent his spare time collaborating with Molly Cotton and John Ward-Perkins at the British School at Rome and with Fausto Zevi at the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia Antica. He took his first degree at the Institute of Archaeology in London between 1975 and 1978, where he graduated in 1979. During those years he passed his summer holidays on various excavation and, most notably at the Roman villa of Settefinestre (Orbetello, Italy), which was to have a profound impact upon his future. Although he spent a short time working on survey in the Tripolitanian Gebel in Libya for Lady Olwen Brogan and the Society of Libyan Studies, he then returned to the Institute of Archaeology for his doctorate on the economy and archaeology of Roman Campania.
Whilst studying Italy, he was invited by the Archaeological Superintendence in Naples to excavate at Pompeii. The year-long excavation (1980-1), the first to make use of local Neapolitan university students, instead of workmen, was the largest modern excavation that had been carried out on the town, as it was described in Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn’s book, Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice, 1996).
After occupying much of the years 1981-1982 as Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome, then directed by David Whitehouse, he moved back to Naples. The reputation of the Pompeii excavation stood him in good stead as, following the devastating Irpinia earthquake on 23 November 1980, he was invited by the Superintendant Enrica Pozzi to direct various excavations through the historic centre of Naples in advance of the consolidation of standing structures. One of the most important excavations, that of the site of Carminiello ai Mannesi, that had already been laid bare by allied bombing at the end of World War II, helped pave the way for a post-classical archaeology of southern Italy. Indeed, the very wealth of medieval finds and contexts revealed by the Neapolitan excavations were fundamental in redirecting his own studies from his classical background, so as to specialise in the Middle Ages.
That led him to teach Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at Salerno University from 1985 to 1987. After preparing a major project for the Napoli99 Foundation, which was financed by the Italian Government, he was subsequently appointed Scientific Director of Project EUBEA (legge finanziaria '86, art. 15), for the Consorzio Pinacos (Bull Italia S.p.a. and Sipe Optimation), with the aim of creating a database of archaeological remains around Naples and the Phlegrean Fields between 1987 and 1990.
He taught Medieval Archaeology at the University of Lecce between 1990 and 1998, before being appointed associate professor in 1998 and then full professor in 2005, a post that he still maintains.
From Lecce, he has become a scholar of Byzantine archaeology, excavating or studying such varied places as Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey), Chersonesos on the Crimean peninsula (Ukraine/Russia), Ostrakine in northern Sinai, and the Salento (southern Puglia). In the Salento he has specialized in the excavation of deserted medieval villages, as well as conducting excavations at the castle and walls of Lecce and at the Byzantine and Norman monasteries of Le Centoporte (Giurdignano) and S. Maria di Cerrate (Lecce).
Currently, he is directing a major Italian government funded projext on the “Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy”.
From 2013 to 2019 he directed the Post-graduate School in Archaeology at the University of Salento, and in September 2018 was elected President of the Italian Society of Medieval Archaeologists (SAMI), which last position was reconfirmed in 2022.
He is a member of various learned societies. He was made a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London in 1988 and in 2005 was nominated Associate of the Board of ICMA (International Center for Medieval Art) in New York.
To date there are over 320 publications to his name, many of which are available online through the website www.academia.edu.
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MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGYno. 2 (2023): 501-502
Perchement et Réalités Fortifiées en Méditerranée et en Europe, Vème-Xème Sièclespp.39-49, (2023)
Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeologypp.131-140, (2022)
Revue Numismatiquepp.225-234, (2020)
Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanshippp.5-32, (2020)
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