Trading at the Edge: Pottery, Coins, and Household Objects at Dura-Europos

Published In J.Y. Chi and S. Heath (eds.). 2011. Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos. New York:ISAW/Princeton University Press, pp. 63-73.

Post-Bronze Age ceramic data at Ilion, from in-field use to digital publication

Preprint of B. Tekkök, J. Wallrodt and S. Heath. Forthcoming. Post-Bronze Age ceramic data at Ilion, from in-field use to digital publication in: troia 1988−2008 − ergebnisse der grabung, Bd. i. mainz.

The authors present a non-technical overview of the database structures that record information about the Post-Bronze Age ceramic assemblage at ilion. its purpose is not to fully document the system used at troia, but instead to identify practices that can be useful in other contexts. The article particularly stresses that it is important to assign a primary identity to all sherds that will be subject to individual study and that this identity can be re-used in such record keeping processes as drawing and photography. further use of such identities in print and digital publication is likely to make online linking of ceramic data to contextual information easier in the future.

Diversity and Reuse of Digital Resources for Ancient Mediterranean Material Culture

Published in  G. Bodard and S. Mahony, eds. (2010). Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, pp. 35-52. Farnham, UK: Ashgate

Legal Threats to Cultural Exchange of Archaeological Materials

With G. Schwartz. American Journal of Archaeology 113.3 (July 2009), 459-461

Legal action on behalf of victims of terrorism has attempted to force the sale of cultural artifacts on loan to U.S. institutions in order to compensate those victims. Such action jeopardizes the participation of American institutions in international cultural exchanges. The authors maintain that archaeological artifacts should not be sold to satisfy a court judgment, regardless of the actions of a particular regime, and that it should be possible for nations to share their cultural heritage without fear of loss.

A Box Mirror Made from Two Antinous Medallions of Smyrna.

American Journal of Numismatics Second Series 18 (2006), 63-74. © 2006 The American Numismatic Society

The ANS has acquired a box mirror formed from two Antinous medallions of Smyrna. Consideration of the techniques of manufacture and comparison with other modified coins of Antinous support the antiquity of the manufac- ture of the mirror. The combination of a portrait of Antinous, a Dionysiac reverse in the form of a female panther, and an internal mirrored surface is the starting point for an examination of the cultural context of this piece.

The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VII: Historical Messenia, Geometric to Late Roman periods

with S. Alcock, A. Berlin, A. Harrison, N. Spencer, and D.L. Stone. Hesperia 74 (2005), 147-209.

In this article, the authors explore patterns in regional activity in Messenia, the southwest corner of the Greek Peloponnese, from the Geometric to the end of the Late Roman period (ca. eighth century B.C. to seventh century A.D.). The analysis is based on extant historical evidence, the campaigns of the Minnesota Messenia Expedition, and—above all—the results of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. These three data sets have been integrated, as far as possible, in order to trace long-term changes in the region and to provide a foundation for further work in this still underexplored portion of Greece's historical landscape.

A sixth-century tremissis from Psalmodi (Gard, France)

Sebastian Heath and David Yoon. American Journal of Numismatics Second Series 21 (2001) pp. 63-80 © 2001 The American Numismatic Society

Hypertext from the Data Point of View: Paths and Links in the Perseus Project

Eli Mylonas and Sebastian Heath. Published in N. Streitz, A. Rizk, and J. Andre, eds., Hypertexts: Concepts, systems, and applications (1990), 324-336. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

S. Heath. Letter to Cultural Property Advisory Committee, United States Department of State. September 22, 2010.

Submitted as Vice-President for Professional Responsibilities, Archaeological Institute of America.

S. Heath, Letter to Cultural Property Advisory Committee, United States Department of State. February 4, 2007.

Submitted in response to call for public commentary on the inclusion of coins in the Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Cyprus.

S. Heath. Letter to Cultural Property Advisory Committee, United States Department of State. November 2, 2009.

Submitted as Vice-President for Professional Responsibilities, Archaeological Institute of America

The Digital Materiality of Early Christian Visual Culture: Building on John 20:24-29

In Digital Humanities 2011: Conference Abstracts, p. 145-146.

Atom Feeds and Incremental Semantic Annotation of Archaeological Collections

With Eric Kansa, Tom Elliott, and Sean Gillies. Abstract from Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology - CAA’2010

Politics & Archaeology: A First-Person Account of the CPAC Meeting Reviewing Italian Import Restrictions

Published 10/2009 on the website of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Beginning the Dialog: An Archaeologist's Perspective

Offprint of a column in ANS Magazine from the ongoing section "Ancient Coins and the Cultural Property Debate". The online PDF is a corrected version of the text first published in the "Summer 2010" issue. It appears alongside an Introduction by Richard Witschonke.

Numismatics.org: One-to-One Photography

Reprinted from American Numismatic Society Magazine 2.1 (Spring 2003), 44-45.