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Andreas Kropp

Assistant Professor in Classical Art, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

BA in Archaeology, American University of Beirut

MSt in Classical Archaeology, Oxford

DPhil in Classical Archaeology, Oxford

Expertise Summary

  • Classical Archaeology of the Greek and Roman world
  • Roman Near East
  • Portraiture in the Greek East

Teaching Summary

I teach a variety of modules on Greek and Roman art at UG and PG level. They include:

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I'd be happy to supervise research in Greek and Roman art and archaeology, and especially subjects related to the Greek East in the Roman period.

Research Summary

I'd be happy to supervise research in Greek and Roman art and archaeology, and especially subjects related to the Greek East in the Roman period.

My work ranges across Greek and Roman art and archaeology, with an emphasis on the Near East (today's Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Jordan) in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Many of my recent studies address questions raised by coin images, in particular royal portraits and images of local deities. I also have extensive experience in many archaeological fieldwork projects in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan (Hauran, Baalbek, Petra).

Selected Publications

  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2013. Images and monuments of Near Eastern dynasts, 100 BC鈥揂D 100 Oxford University Press.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2010. Jupiter, Venus and Mercury of Heliopolis (Baalbek): the images of the 鈥渢riad鈥� and its alleged syncretisms Syria. 87, 229-264
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2011. Anatomy of a Phoenician goddess: the Tyche of Berytus and her acolytes Journal of Roman Archaeology. 24(1), 389-407
  • KROPP, A.J.M. and D. LOHMANN, 2011. "Master, look at the size of those stones! Look at the size of those buildings!" Analogies in construction techniques between the temples at Heliopolis (Baalbek) and Jerusalem Levant. 43, 38-50

Past Research

My monograph deals with "client" kings in the Roman Near East: Kropp, A.J.M. Images and Monuments of Near Eastern dynasts, 100 BC - AD 100. Oxford (2013.). This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the downfall of the Seleucid empire to Rome's establishment of provincial administrations in the region. The study looks at royal portraits, tombs, palaces, coins, and temples of the six major players: the Kommagenian, Emesan, Ituraean, Nabataean, Hasmonaean, and Herodian dynasties. This study looks at monuments like the Khazneh at Petra or the Temple at Jerusalem as historical documents attesting ideological aspirations and skilfully constructed royal personas.

  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2026. Civic gods and silver coins: Divine imagery on Caracalla鈥檚 Phoenician tetradrachms. In: J. KAMLAH ET AL., ed., Images of Gods and Goddesses in Palestine Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2026. The grain ear of Jupiter Heliopolitanus (IOMH). A new attribution for a group of Caracalla tetradrachms Syria. 102, (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2025. Different mint, same engraver. Engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant Levant. 57, 110-25
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2024. Roman Syria. In: B. BURRELL, ed., A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell. 606-31
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2024. Roman Palmyra as a hub of trade and commerce. Material, epigraphic and numismatic evidence. In: J. HENDERSON, S. MORGAN AND M. SALONIA, ed., Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia London: Routledge. 65-78
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2023. Chapters 鈥淎rados鈥�, 鈥淎ntarados鈥�, 鈥淢arathos鈥�, 鈥淭ripolis鈥�, 鈥淓mesa鈥�. In: D. KREIKENBOM ET AL., ed., Sculpture from Roman Syria vol. 2: Marble Sculpture Mainz: Zabern.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2022. Kingdoms and principalities. In: T. KAIZER, ed., A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East Oxford: Blackwell.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2021. 鈥淭he tetradrachm mint of Neapolis (Samaria): new attributions and the phantom mint of Byblos.鈥� Numismatic Chronicle. 181, 115-27
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2021. 鈥淎 Roman altar on Mt. Gerizim: Rediscovering a civic icon on tetradrachms of Neapolis (Samaria),鈥� Journal of Roman Archaeology. 34, 220-36
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2021. 鈥淭he Roman road network of north Sardinia and other topographical puzzles: a fresh look at the Itinerarium Antonini,鈥� Orbis Terrarum. 19, 115-42
  • ANDREAS KROPP, 2021. Tripolis and Orthosia tetradrachms of Caracalla: Attribution and analysis of 鈥榩ilei鈥� and 鈥榠dol鈥� tetradrachms Revue Belge de Numismatique. 167, 143-89
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2020. 鈥淓mesa鈥� and 鈥淚turaea and Ituraeans鈥�. In: R.S. BAGNALL ET AL., ed., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2nd ed.) London: Blackwell.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2019. 鈥泪迟耻谤别补苍蝉鈥�. In: D.M. GURTNER and L.T. STUCKENBRUCK, eds., T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2017. Tetrarches kai archiereus. Gods and cults of the tetrarchs of Chalkis and their role in Ituraean Heliopolis (Baalbek). In: RAJA, R., ed., Contextualising the sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: Religious identities in local, regional and imperial settings.: Aarhus, September 2008 83-97 (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2016. Journal of Roman Archaeology. 29, 193-222
  • KROPP, A.J.M. and RAJA, R., eds., 2016. The World of Palmyra. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.
  • KROPP, A.J.M. and RAJA, R., 2016. In: KROPP, A.J.M. and R. RAJA, eds., 鈥淭he World of Palmyra at Copenhagen,鈥� Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. 7-16
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2015. 鈥淭he Tyche of Berytus: a Phoenician goddess on civic coinage.鈥� Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE). 1, 201-18.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2014. 鈥淭he Palmyra Portrait Project,鈥� Syria. 91, 393-408.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2013. Images and monuments of Near Eastern dynasts, 100 BC鈥揂D 100 Oxford University Press.
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2013. The iconography of Nabu of Hatra in the context of Syrian cult images. A Hierapolitan import in Northern Mesopotamia. In: DIRVEN, L., ed., Hatra. Politics, Culture & Religion between Parthia and Rome.: Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Amsterdam 18-20 December 2009 Steiner. (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2013. Crowning the emperor 鈥� An unorthodox image of Claudius, Agrippa I and Herod of Chalkis Syria. 90, (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2013. Levant. 45(1), 45-56
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2013. 鈥淜ings without diadems 鈥� How the laurel wreath became the insignia of Nabataean kings鈥� Arch盲ologischer Anzeiger. 21-41.
  • KROPP, A.J.M. and HITZL, K., 2013. 鈥淎lte und neue Impressionen. Das Heiligtum von Olympia im 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr.,鈥� Boreas. 36, 53-90
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2012. A new altar of the 鈥渢riad鈥� of Heliopolis (Baalbek) at the Museum of Adiyaman Syria. 89, 141-50
  • KROPP, A.J.M. and D. LOHMANN, 2011. "Master, look at the size of those stones! Look at the size of those buildings!" Analogies in construction techniques between the temples at Heliopolis (Baalbek) and Jerusalem Levant. 43, 38-50
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2011. Jupiter, Venus und Merkur: Die 鈥淭rias鈥� von Heliopolis Welt und Umwelt der Bibel. 2, 68-69
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2011. Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 143, 176-97
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2011. Anatomy of a Phoenician goddess: the Tyche of Berytus and her acolytes Journal of Roman Archaeology. 24(1), 389-407
  • KROPP, A., 2010. Earrings, nefesh and opus reticulatum: self-representation of the royal house of Emesa in the first century AD. In: KAIZER, T. and FACELLA, M., eds., Kingdoms and principalities in the Roman Near East. Stuttgart: Steiner. 199-216
  • KROPP, A.J.M. and , 2010. Review of J. Aliquot, La vie religieuse au Liban sous l鈥檈mpire romain 2009 Tempora (Universit茅 Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth). 19, 255-60
  • KROPP, A.J.M, 2010. The iconography of Nabu of 岣峁璻膩 in the context of Syrian cult images. A Hierapolitan import in Northern Mesopotamia. In: DIRVEN, L., ed., Hatra. Politics, religion and culture between Parthia and Rome. Amsterdam, 18-20 Dec 2009 (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2010. Jupiter, Venus and Mercury of Heliopolis (Baalbek): the images of the 鈥渢riad鈥� and its alleged syncretisms Syria. 87, 229-264
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2010. Review of Y.Z. Eliav, E.A. Friedland and S. Herbert (eds.), The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East, 2008 Journal of Roman Archaeology. 23, 762-69
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2009. The cults of Ituraean Heliopolis (Baalbek) Journal of Roman Archaeology. 22, 365-80
  • KROPP, A., 2009. King 鈥� Caesar 鈥� god: Roman imperial cult among Near Eastern client kings in the Julio-Claudian period. In: BL脰MER, M., FACELLA, M. and E. WINTER, eds., Lokale Identit盲t im r枚mischen Nahen Osten.: Kontexte und Perspektiven. Tagung M眉nster 2007. 99-150
  • KROPP, A., 2009. Roman art and laughing viewers. Review of J. ELSNER, Roman eyes: Visuality and subjectivity in art & text and J.R. CLARKE, Looking at laughter: Humor, power and transgression in Roman visual culture 100 B.C. 鈥� A.D. 250 Oxford Art Journal. 31.3, 425-31
  • KROPP, A.J.M., 2009. In: Nabataean Petra: The royal palace and the Herod connection 32. 43-59
  • MOUTON, M., RENEL, F. and KROPP, A., 2008. The Hellenistic levels under the temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 52, 51-71
  • KROPP, A., 2008. Classical Review. 58, 283-84
  • KROPP, A., 2008. Review of: E. Diez, Kunstprovinzen im r枚mischen Imperium. Ausgew盲hlte Schriften. Vienna, 2006 Ancient West and East. (In Press.)
  • KROPP, A., 2008. Review of: J. Borchhardt, Der Fries vom Cenotaph f眉r Gaius Caesar in Limyra, Vienna 2004 Journal of Roman Studies. 98, 253-54
  • KROPP, A., 2007. Review of E.R. Varner, Mutilation and Transformation. Damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture, Leiden: Brill Ancient West and East.
  • KROPP, A. and MOHAMMAD, Q., 2006. Dion of the Decapolis: Tell al-Ash'ari in southern Syria in the light of ancient documents and recent discoveries Levant. 38, 125-44
  • KROPP, A., 2005. Sehepunkte. 5,
  • BURWITZ, H, LOHMANN, D. and KROPP, A., 2005. Architectural and archaeological research in the Bustan el-Khan peristyle complex (Baalbek) Bulletin d鈥橝rch茅ologie et d鈥橝rchitecture Libanaises (BAAL). 9, 125-35
  • KROPP, A., 2004. Kolossales Bildnis des Marc Aurel in Petra entdeckt Welt und Umwelt der Bibel. 34, 60-61
  • 鈥� 鈥淭etrarches kai archiereus. Gods and cults of the tetrarchs of Chalkis and their role in Ituraean Heliopolis (Baalbek),鈥�. In: Contextualising the sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: Religious identities in local, regional and imperial settings. Turnhout: Brepols.. 83-97

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