Amanda Claridge

A resident of London, she died there from cancer on 5 May 2022, aged 72.

She undertook fieldwork in Rome, elsewhere in Italy, Turkey, and North Africa. Claridge was a research fellow at the British School at Rome, 2018-19.

Claridge left Rome for the University of Oxford where she was a research associate at the Institute of Archaeology and a lecturer at St John’s College, Oxford. In 2000 she moved to Royal Holloway, University of London as reader in Roman archaeology.

Claridge was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1986. She was a member of the Member Accademia Pontiicia Romana di Arch. Claridge was awarded the Commendatore Italian Order of Merit. Claridge was on the Advisory Committee of the Journal of Roman Archaeology. In 2010 she was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Claridge was the Assistant Director of the British School at Rome from 1980 to 1994.

In 1976 she assisted John Bryan Ward-Perkins, who had recently retired as Director of the British School in Rome, with the curation and catalogue of the Royal Academy's 'Pompeii AD79' exhibition. She moved to Princeton University in the late 1970s as assistant professor of classical archaeology.

After graduating she went to the British School at Rome as a scholar in classical studies (1973–75).

Amanda Jacqueline Claridge FSA (1 September 1949 – 5 May 2022) was a British professor of Roman archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests included "Roman archaeology, especially art, marble sculpture and the marble trade; Roman architecture and urbanism; topography and monuments of the city of Rome and Latium; Antiquarian studies in 16th and 17th century Rome."