FREDERIQUE DUYRAT

Professor of Ancient Numismatics, Director of Collections and Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College

Contact
Email: frederique.duyrat@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0003-1290-6902
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Wolfson College

Biography

Frédérique Duyrat studied at Sorbonne University in Paris for her undergraduate and graduate degrees in History. She graduated with an MA in 1996, then spent two years at the French Archaeological Institute in Damascus where she wrote a PhD on Aradus, the most northern Phoenician city, during the Hellenistic period.

She took her PhD in 2000 at Sorbonne University, and then was awarded a Habilitation à diriger des recherches by the same university in 2010 for her work 'Wealth and Warfare. The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria'. She taught Ancient History at Sorbonne University, then at the University of Orléans where she was also a member of the Institut de recherche sur les archéomatériaux – Centre Ernest-Babelon (CNRS), a laboratory specialized in elemental analyses of the metal of coins (2002–2013).

In 2010, she was appointed curator of Greek coins in the department of Coins, Medals, and Antiques of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, before taking the position of director of this department in September 2013. She was appointed to her current post at the University of Oxford in September 2023. At the same time, she is the Director of Studies in the Monetary History of the Greek World (7^th–1^st century BC) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

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Research

Ancient Greek Numismatics
Ancient Greek History, Economy and Society, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean
Alexander the Great and the Diadochi
Linked Open Data, Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence applied to ancient artefacts and archives
Fight against the trafficking of cultural heritage

Teaching

My academic experience includes teaching, tutoring, setting exams, marking, examining, supervising masters dissertations and doctoral theses, participating in thesis and habilitations vivas (France, UK, Austria), participating in academic and public exam (concours) panels as well as administrative work and management (creation of a new Masters degree at the University of Orléans including History, Linguistics and Law).

I taught Greek History from the end of the Archaic world to the end of the Hellenistic period, Roman Republic and the early Empire.

I teach Studies in the Monetary History of the Greek World (7^th-1^st century BC) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Doctoral supervision

I have supervised or co-supervised three doctoral theses.

I have sat on a number of doctoral thesis and habilitations examination panels in France, Austria and at Oxford.

PhDs supervised or co-supervised:

Waed Awesat, Tyr achéménide et hellénistique (Ve s. av. J.-C – Ier s. ap. J.-C.), histoire et monnaie, Universite Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (Completed 2021)
Héloïse Aumaître, La Syrie et Phénicie lagide au IIIe siècle av. J.-C.: étude historique et monétaire, Universite Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (Completed 2022)
Jérémy Artru, Carthage : monnaie et histoire, de la prise de Sélinonte à la révolte libyenne (409-237 av. n. è.), Université d’Orléans (Completed 2024)