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The Courtauld Institute of Art

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catherine.draycott@courtauld.ac.uk



Catherine comes to The Courtauld from the University of Oxford, where she held the Katherine and Leonard Woolley Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College.  She completed her M.Phil. and D.Phil. at Oxford, concentrating on Greek and Roman sculpture and the art and archaeology of Archaic and Classical Anatolia.  She came to this via an untraditional route, having first studied ceramics and fine art, gaining a BFA and DipFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 



Research Interests


Catherine’s approach is to assess multiple aspects of imagery and architecture as evidence for phenomena of historical significance. Her current research concentrates on the emergence of social and cultural identities in tomb art in Western Anatolia in the archaic and early classical period, especially around the time of the Persian Wars, and she is preparing a book on this topic.  She also has broader interests in approaches to the interpretation of imagery, and she is co-editing an interdisciplinary book on images of banqueting in tomb contexts, which interrogates the role that eschatological beliefs play in current explanations of such images.


Programmes taught 2011 - 2012


  • Ancient Sculpture in London Museums (BA1 topics course)
  • Finding the Ancient Artist (BA2 texts and contexts course)
  • Greeks and Others: Art and Identity in Ancient Greece and Beyond (BA3 special options)
  • Images at Work: Art in Greek and Roman Society (MA course)

 

Publications:


Draycott, C.M. forthcoming. Images and Identities.  The emergence of identities in the tomb art of Western Anatolia in the 100 years of Persian Rule (working title).

Draycott, C.M. and M. Stamatopoulou (eds.), forthcoming. Dining&Death. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the ‘Funerary Banquet’ in ancient art, burial and belief.  Leuven: Peeters.


Draycott, C.M., 2011: “Funerary or Military Convoy?  Thoughts on the Tatarlı convoy painting and the meaning of the ‘Greco-Persian’ convoy.”  In L. Summerer, A. von Kienlin and A. Ivantschik (eds.) Kelainai – Apameia Kibotos: Stadtentwicklung im anatolischen Kontext/Kélainai – Apamée Kibôtos: Développement urbain dans le contexte anatolien. Akten des Kolloquiums, München 2 April – 4 April 2009.  Bordeaux: Editiones Ausinus, 55 – 61.

Draycott, C.M., 2010: “What does ‘Being “Graeco-Persian”’ mean?  An introduction to the papers,” In M. Dalla Riva (ed.) Roma 2008 – International Congress of Classical Archaeology. Meetings between cultures in the ancient Mediterranean. Bollettino di Archeologia on line, Special Edition: Session G,1, paper 1, 1 – 6.

Draycott, C.M., 2010: “Convoy Commanders and other Military Identities in Tomb Art of Western Anatolia around the time of the Persian Wars,” In M. Dalla Riva (ed.) Roma 2008 – International Congress of Classical Archaeology. Meetings between cultures in the ancient Mediterranean. Bollettino di Archeologia on line, Special Edition: Session G,1, paper 2, 7 – 23.

Draycott, C.M. and G.D. Summers, 2008: Kerkenes Special Studies 1: Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial Complex at Kerkenes Dag, Turkey (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press)

Draycott, C.M., 2008: “Bird-Women on the Harpy Monument from Xanthos, Lycia: Sirens or Harpies?” in Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007, ed. by D. Kurtz, with C. Meyer, D. Saunders, A. Tsingarida and N. Harris, Beazley Archive and Archaeopress as Studies in Classical Archaeology vol. IV/ BAR International Series 1796. Oxford: Archaeopress, 145 – 153. 

Draycott, C.M., 2007: “Dynastic Definitions.  Differentiating status claims in the archaic pillar tomb reliefs of Lycia,” in Anatolian Iron Ages 6: the Proceedings of the Sixth Anatolian Iron Ages Symposium held at Eskishehir, Turkey 16 – 19 August 2004, ed. by A. Sagona and A. Çilingirloglu, Ancient Near Eastern Studies supp. 20, Louvain: Peeters Press, 103 – 134.