Dr Arkadiy Avdokhin

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Marie Curie Fellow (UKRI guarantee); Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College
arkadiy.avdokhin@classics.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: PhD (King’s College London)

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7811-2801

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Academic Background

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.

Research Interests

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 Keywords

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

Teaching

I teach tutorials and classes in late antique archaeology, history, and epigraphy across Oxford and its colleges

Publications

Full Publications: Dr Arkadiy Avdokhin publications 2025

Selected Publications:

Debating & Ruling the Ritual in Late Antiquity: Liturgy, Devotion, and the Bishop in Fourth-Century Egypt (OUP forthcoming)

 ‘An Egyptian Pilgrim in Asia Minor: Linguistic Placing of a Graffito from Hierapolis’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 117.1 (2024): 19–34 https://doi.org/10.1515/bz-2024-0003, 

‘Space Oddity? Praepositi Inscribing Power and Appropriating Spaces in Theodosian Constantinople,’ in A. Rhoby, I. Toth (eds.), Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy I (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 25–53 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SBE-EB.5.131797,

‘Singers Silently Speaking: Psalm-Singers, their Social Standing and Group Awareness in Coptic Inscriptions from Middle Egypt (Bawit),’ Journal of Early Christian Studies 29 (2021): 607–36 https://10.1353/earl.2021.0041 , 

‘Christianizing Statues Unawares? Imperial Imagery and New Testament Phrasing in a Late Antique Honorific Inscription (IEph 4.1301),’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 216 (2020): 55–68 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48645851