Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Doctor

I defended my PhD in Roman law in march, 2014 (university of Alicante and Facolta di giurisprudenza Palermo) concerning the criminal liability for shipwrecking. I have just finished my 2nd PhD in archaeology (June, 2018) concerning the epigraphy of merchandise at the Universities of Southampton and Lyon 2 la lumiere, related to the Portus limen project (http://portuslimen.eu/). My research interest lies on Roman law and especially on its commercial and maritime focus. Moreover,  my work is also devoted to examining the ways in which the material of inscribed artefacts provides information regarding their use as objects of communication. I like to connect the materiality of epigraphy of merchandise against the background of Roman law, by shifting the focus from traditional linguistic analysis to the means by which inscribed texts were created, shaped, and used as commercial tools in the different regions of the Mediterranean. I have recently been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for advanced studies to develop a project entitled materialising and tracing roman commercial sea law (2nd cent BC-3rd cent AD)