Dr Roger Tomlin

M.A., D.Phil., F.S.A.
University Lecturer in Late Roman History

Wolfson College

Email: roger.tomlin@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Dr Tomlin is a Roman historian who studies the social and cultural history of the fourth century, with a particular interest in the late-Roman army. He is also joint editor of the annual survey of Roman inscriptions found in Britain, and is working on corpora of Romano-British monumental stone inscriptions, and texts incised on wood and metal.

Selected Publications:

• (ed.) The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, II: Instrumentum Domesticum, in Eight Fascicules . (Stroud, 1995) 165pp.
• 'Christianity and the late Roman army' in Constantine: History and Legend. (1998) pp. 21-52
• 'Roman Manuscripts from Carlisle: the ink-written tablets', Britannia. Vol 29 (1998)
• 'Writing to the gods in Britain' in Becoming Roman, Writing Latin? Literacy and Epigraphy in the Roman West. (2002) pp. 165-179
• 'The Flavian municipal law: one or two more copies', ZPE. Vol 141 (2002) pp. 281-284
• 'Roman Britain in 2001, II: Inscriptions', Britannia. Vol 33 (2002) pp. 355-371
• 'The sepulchral monument of the procurator C Julius Classicianus', Britannia. Vol 33 (2002) pp. 43-75
• ''The girl in question': a new text from Roman London', Britannia. Vol 34 (2003)
• 'Roman Britain in 2002, II: Inscriptions', Britannia. Vol 34 (2003) pp. 361-82
• 'Documenting the Roman army at Carlisle' in Documenting the Roman Army: essays in honour of Margarent Roxan. (2003) pp. 175-187
• 'Enhancement and feature extraction for images of incised and ink texts', Image and Vision Computing. Vol 22 (2004) pp. 443-451
• 'Roman Britain in 2004: III, Inscriptions', Britannia. Vol 36 (2005) pp. 473-97

Future Publications:

• 'The Book in Roman Britain' in The Cambridge History of the Book.
• 'A Roman inscribed tablet from Red Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar (Nottinghamshire)', Antiquaries Journal.
• 'A bilingual Roman charm for health and victory', ZPE.
• 'Roman Britain in 2003, III: Inscriptions', Britannia.
• (ed.) History and Fiction: six essays in celebration fo the centenary (2003) of Sir Ronald Syme .
• 'A Roman Will from North Wales', Archaeologia Cambrensis. Vol 150 (2001) pp. 143-56
• 'Wooden stilus tablets from Roman Britain', Images and Artifacts of the Ancient World. (2004)
• 'Carta picta perscripta: Anleitung zum Lesen von Fluchtafeln aus dem römischen Britannien' in Fluchtafeln. Neue Funde und neue Deutungen zum antiken Schadenzauber. (2005) pp. 11-29
• 'The owners of the Beaurains (Arras) Treasure' in Constantine the Great: York's Roman Emperor. (2006)
• Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Vol 3 (2007)

Research Interests and Activities

• Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages