Roberta S. Tomber (1954 – 1 May 2022) was a British archaeologist.

Biography

Tomber had worked for the

Museum of London Archaeology Service MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) is an archaeology and built heritage practice and independent charitable company registered with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA). It provides a wide range of professional archaeological serv ...

(1988–2001) and the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

(2002–2004) before joining the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

as an Honorary Visiting Researcher in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research. Her ceramic research focussed on ancient Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean contacts. She was elected a member of the council of the

Roman Society The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1,200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, which at its peak covered an area from present-day ...

in June 2019. She was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

in 1995.

Publications

*Tomber, R. 2013. "Pots, coins and trinkets in Rome’s trade with the East", in PS Wells (ed) ''Rome Beyond its Frontiers: Imports, Attitudes and Practices'' (Journal Roman Archaeology Supp 94). Portsmouth Rhode Island, 87–104. *Tomber, R., Blue, L., and Abraham, S. (eds) 2010. ''Migration, Trade and Peoples, Part I: Indian Ocean Commerce and the Archaeology of Western India'', The British Association for South Asian Studies. *Tomber, R. 2008. ''Indo-Roman trade: from pots to pepper''. London, Duckworth. *Tomber, R. 2007. "Rome and Mesopotamia – importers into India in the first millennium AD", ''Antiquity'' 81, 972–88. *Tomber, R. and Dore, J. 1998. ''The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection. A Handbook.'' Museum of London Archaeology Service Monography 2. London, MOLAS. *Davies, B., Richardson, B., and Tomber, R. 1994. ''A Dated Typology of Early Roman Pottery from the City of London'' (CBA Res Rep 98). Council for British Archaeology.

References

1954 births 2022 deaths Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London British women classical scholars British women archaeologists People associated with the British Museum British women curators {{UK-archaeologist-stub