Arkadiy Avdokhin

Biography

Trained as a Classicist, I went on to do my doctoral work on late antique religious change and early Christian ritual. In the last decade, I have increasingly focused on epigraphy as part of urban spaces and shifts in them in the later Roman empire, especially in Asia Minor. I have also published ritual and cult of saints in late antiquity.

My research focuses on various aspects of late antique social and religious history, primarily as seen through epigraphy but also broader material record. I have co-directed a project on Byzantine and Old Russian pilgrimage epigraphy, and have wider interests in inscriptions as part of pious travel in the Roman world and beyond. My current Marie Skłodowska-Curie project ‘Re-Writing Cityscapes in Late Antique Asia Minor (RCLA)’ focuses on the epigraphy of Aphrodisias and Ephesos, and develops an interactive online map with 3D models of inscribed urban structures. I am also more generally interested in developing new ways to visualise, store, and present inscriptions as part of lived spaces through 3D modelling.

Research Interests
Epigraphy, urbanism, ancient religion, ancient ritual, early church, late antiquity, Asia Minor