Caitie Barrett

Professor

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120 Goldwin Smith Hall
ceb329@cornell.edu

Education

PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology Subfield), Yale University, 2009

BA in Anthropology (Archaeology Subfield), summa cum laude, Harvard University, 2003

Departments and programs

  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology Program
  • Classics
  • Jewish Studies Program
  • Near Eastern Studies
  • Religious Studies Program

Affiliated Colleges

  • College of Arts and Sciences

Links

Keywords

 

 

Mediterranean archaeology, Greek and Roman archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, Egypt under Ptolemaic and Roman rule, archaeology of religion and ritual, household archaeology, domestic archaeology, dwelling, household religion, connectivity, cross-cultural interactions, Hellenistic period, Roman empire, Hieroglyphic Egyptian language, Pompeii

 

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

  • Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (2019). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. [430 pp. + 100 figures]
  • Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion (2011). Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 36. Leiden/Boston: Brill. [731 pp. + 80 plates]

EDITED VOLUMES

  • Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (2023), eds. C. Barrett and J. Carrington. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [351 pp.] ***Recipient of the 2026 James R. Wiseman Book Award.  
  • Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison (2015), eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi and A. Muller (editors-in-chief) and C. Aubry, C. Barrett, C. Blume, and T. Kopestonsky (collaborating editors). Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [534 pp.]

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

  • "Egypt, Roman" (2025). In Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD), ed.-in-chief Tim Whitmarsh. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.7194 [39 pp.]
  • "The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, Pompeii: 2022–2023 Field Seasons" (with K. Gleason, L. Graña, A. Marzano, and K. Tally-Schumacher, with additional contributions by E. Allen, S. Barker, M. Bartolini, H. Becker, J. Bellviure, J. Feito, R. Ferritto, D. Langgut, E. Lime, P. Mighetto, M. Robinson, J. Sevink, K. Tardio, C. Ward, and C. Warlick) (2025). FOLD&R (Fasti OnLine Documents & Research) Italy 596. https://www.fastionline.org/s/folder/item/97233. [47 pp.]
  • "The Affordances of Terracotta Figurines in Domestic Contexts: Reconsidering the Gap between Material and Ritual" (2024). In Stuff of the Gods: The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece, eds. M. Haysom, M. Mili, and J. Wallensten. Athens: Swedish Institute at Athens, 111–132. [22 pp.]
  • "Leisure and Labor in a Pompeian Garden: The Casa della Regina Carolina Project (VIII 3, 14) 2022 Field Season" (with K. Gleason, L. Graña, and A. Marzano, with additional contributions by E. Allen, R. Ferritto, D. Langgut, E. Lime, L. Magno, M. Robinson, and K. Tally-Schumacher). Rivista di Studi Pompeiani 34 (2023: 257–265. [9 pp.]
  • "Houses, Households, and Homes: Toward an Archaeology of Dwelling" (2023). In Households in Contexts: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, eds. C. Barrett and J. Carrington, 1–46. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [46 pp.]
  • "Afterword: Strong at the Broken Places?" (2023) In Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines, ed. G. Miniaci, 306–315. Oxford: Oxbow. [10 pp.]
  • "A 'New' (Rediscovered) Nilotic Scene from the Casa del Gemmario: Context, Iconography, and Sub-Elite Viewership" (with N. Bellucci). Rivista di Studi Pompeiani 33 (2023): 89–109. [21 pp.]
  • "Recontextualizing Nilotic Scenes: Interactive Landscapes in the Garden of the Casa dell’Efebo, Pompeii.” American Journal of Archaeology 121 (2017): 293-332. [40 pp.]
  • "The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, Pompeii: Preliminary Report on 2018 and 2019 Field Seasons" (with K. Gleason and A. Marzano, with additional contributions by D. Langgut) (2020). FOLD&R (Fasti OnLine Documents & Research) Italy 492. https://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2020-492.pdf. [29 pp.]
  • "Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture" (2017). In G. Williams (ed.), Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-18) [43 pp.]
  • "Recontextualizing Nilotic Scenes: Interactive Landscapes in the Garden of the Casa dell'Efebo, Pompeii." American Journal of Archaeology 121 (2017): 293–332. [40 pp.]
  • "Archaeology of Ancient Religions" (2016). In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, eds. J. Barton et al. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (http://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-48) [24 pp.]
  • "Avant-propos" (with C. Aubry, C. Blume, S. Huysecom-Haxhi, T. Kopestonsky, and A. Muller) (2015). In Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison, eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi et al., 7-9. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [3 pp.]
  • "Terracotta Figurines and the Archaeology of Ritual: Domestic Cult in Greco-Roman Egypt" (2015). In Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison, eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi et al., 401-420. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [20 pp.]
  • "Harpocrates on Rheneia: Two Egyptian Figurines from the Necropolis of Delos" (2015). In Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée orientale grecque et romaine. II: Iconographie et contextes, eds. E. Laflı and A. Muller, 187-200. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
  • "Material Evidence for Ancient Greek Religion" (2015). In Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, eds. E. Eidinow and J. Kindt, 113-130. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [18 pp.]
  • "Hellenistic and Roman Egypt" (2015). In D.L. Clayman (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. New York: Oxford University Press. [87 pp.]
  • "The Perceived Value of Minoan and Minoanizing Pottery in Egypt" (2009). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.2: 211-234. [24 pp.]
  • "Was Dust Their Food and Clay Their Bread? Grave Goods, the Mesopotamian Afterlife, and the Liminal Role of Inana/Ishtar" (2007). Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7: 7-65. [59 pp.]

OTHER ARTICLES, BRIEF ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND ENTRIES IN MUSEUM CATALOGS

  • “Casa della Regina Carolina, Regio VIII.3.14” (2020). K.L. Gleason, C.E. Barrett, and A. Marzano. Fasti Online (http://www.fastionline.org/excavation/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_4667&curcol=sea_cd-AIAC_10402).
  • Multiple entries (2018) in Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, eds. J. Spier et al., 250, 252–253, 272, 276-277, no. 174. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
  • "Figurines" (with E. Darby) (2016). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, 344-346. New York: Routledge. [3 pp.]
  • "Harpokrates" (2016). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, 388. New York: Routledge. [1 p.]
  • "Gems" (with V. Platt) (2015). In Cornell Collection of Antiquities, ed. A. Alexandridis and V. Platt (http://antiquities.stg.library.cornell.edu/gems). [3 pp.]
  • "Plaster Perspectives on 'Magical Gems': Rethinking the Meaning of 'Magic' in Cornell's Dactyliotheca" (2015). In Cornell Collection of Antiquities, ed. A. Alexandridis and V. Platt (http://antiquities.stg.library.cornell.edu/gems/plaster-perspectives-on-magical-gems).
  • "Terracotta Figurines of Harpocrates from Greco-Roman Egypt" (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview/harpocrates-figurines). Online exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [4 pp.]
  • "'Campana' Relief with Roman Nilotic Landscape" (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview/campana-relief-roman-nilotic-landscape). Online exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [3 pp.]
  • "Egyptianizing Graeco-Roman Objects" (with C.M. Manassa) (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs, pp. 15-16 [print edition]. New Haven: Yale Peabody Museum. Exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [2 pp.]

INVITED BOOK REVIEWS

  • Review (2023) of A.L. Boozer, At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology. Journal of Roman Studies 113: 2643–265. [2 pp.]
  • "Between Meroe and Rome: Nubian People, Practices, and Inscriptions at the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae" (2022). Review of S. Ashby, Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae. Journal of Roman Archaeology 35.1: 469–481. [13 pp.]
  • Review (2020) of S.R. Martin and S.M. Langin-Hooper, eds., The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 79.2: 360–365. [5 pp.]
  • Review (2013) of M. Trümper, Die 'Agora des Italiens' in Delos: Baugeschichte, Architektur, Ausstattung und Funktion einer späthellenistischen Porticus-Anlage. Journal of Hellenic Studies 133: 116-117. [2 pp.]
  • Review (2012) of B. Rabe, Zwischen Entwurf und Produkt: Die griechisch-römischen Gipsformen aus Ägypten im Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Coroplastic Studies Interest Group Book Reviews (http://www.coroplasticstudies.org/reviews-rabe.html).

NOTES, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

  • "Nilotic Scenes, Egyptian Religion, and Roman Perceptions" (2013). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5: 3-5. [3 pp.]
  • "Recent Research in Greco-Egyptian Interactions" (2012). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 4:4. [1 p.]
  • "Egyptian Imagery in Hellenistic Bulgaria: Lamps from the Thracian City of Seuthopolis" (2010). CSIG News: Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 4: 17. [1 p.]
  • "Religious Syncretism in Egyptianizing Terracotta Figurines from Delos" (2009). CSIG News: Annual Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 1: 10. [1 p.]

 

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