Bouke van der Meer
Senior University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. L.B. van der Meer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- l.b.van.der.meer@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Bouke van der Meer is a Senior University Lecturer at the Faculty of Archaeology.
Office days
Monday to Friday
Postal address
Faculty of Archaeology University of Leiden
PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Research
Dr L. Bouke van der Meer is retired associate professor in Classical Archaeology. He has published books and articles (see academia.edu) on Etruscan archaeology and language, among others books on urns with mythological scenes from Volterra, bronze mirrors with epigraphic mythological scenes, the famous Bronze Liver of Piacenza (analysis of a polytheistic system), decorated stone sarcophagi from Etruria (c. 350-200 BC), the Liber linteus Zagrabiensis (the so-called Mummy Wrappings of Zagreb, a linen book with the longest Etruscan ritual text), and Etruscan rituals. He also did research in Ostia Antica (on the use of travertine and on the Domus Fulminata). His monograph Ostia speaks. Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome’s main port appeared in 2012.
He has prepared a publication on The (hanging-)bowl of Oegstgeest.
Ancillary activities
Bouke is foreign member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, member of the International Scientific Committee for the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, of Etruscan Studies, of the Academic Advisory Board of the Graduate Journal of Social Studies, of the Etruscan Foundation Advisory Board (USA) and of Monographs on Antiquity, Louvain: Peeters.
Senior University Lecturer
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
- Meer L.B. van der (8 January 2009), Etruskische Religion. Context: Tentoonstelling Etr. kunst. Bonn. [lecture].
- Meer L.B. van der (29 May 2008), Introduction to/organisation of Internationaal Colloquium "Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion". Internat. Colloquium. Leiden. [lecture].
- Meer L.B. van der (4 December 2008), Etruskische und italische sub- und extraurbane Riten. Tagung "Kulte bei den Etruskern". Wenen. [lecture].
- Meer L.B. van der (28 January 2006), Denken en doen op z'n Etruskisch. Satricum-dag. Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Meer L.B. van der (2006), Rite et mythe dans le Liber linteus zagrabiensis. Colloque 'Les mythologies dans les religions antiques'. Parijs, Sorbonne. [lecture].