The BABESCH Byvanck Award is an annual contest for the best scholarly paper submitted to the BABESCH periodical by a novice in the field of archaeological research. The paper is the first scientific contribution of the applicant to an international A-journal.
The BABESCH Byvanck Award is named after Dame dr. Lili Byvanck-Quarles van Ufford (1907-2002), one of the last grandes dames of Classical Archaeology in the Netherlands during the 20th century. For decades she was the driving force behind BABESCH which under her zeal and guidance developed into an internationally acknowledged publication platform for Mediterranean archaeologists.
The BABESCH Byvanck Award is made possible through a yearly donation of the prof. dr. A.W. Byvanck Fund, instituted by Lili Byvanck in remembrance of her late husband with the aim of furthering the study and knowledge of the ancient world.
Submissions
Applicants for the BABESCH Byvanck Award are invited to apply to the BABESCH editorial board before March 1st. The application consists of an article for the BABESCH journal accompanied by a curriculum vitae.
The BABESCH Byvanck Award winner will be publicly announced at the annual BABESCH Byvanck Lecture which is usually held in April or May. The award consists of € 1500,-, a certificate and the opportunity to present the winning article to the audience of the annual BABESCH Byvanck Lecture.
Conditions
- The article must be the first scientific contribution of the applicant to an international A-journal.
- The article must follow the editorial guidelines of the BABESCH journal.
Procedures
- All submissions are considered for regular publication in BABESCH regardless of the award.
- The article will be reviewed by the BABESCH editorial board, and on acceptance for publication by external peer reviewers.
- The BABESCH editorial board selects a candidate for the award among the applicants, and decides by majority vote.
Notification of acceptance of the article for regular publication: on very short notice.
Award Winner: 4 weeks before the annual BABESCH Byvanck lecture the award winner will receive notice.
Laureates
2023
Dominika W. Kaszubska, Tapetenmuster nella pittura parietale vesuviana
Published in BABESCH 99 (2024)
2022
Eline Verburg, The Corazzi Collection: Letters from Cortona and Leiden
Published in BABESCH 98 (2023)
2021
Rogier van der Heijden, Seeing the Colosseum Valley as a Flavian District
Published in BABESCH 97 (2022)
2020
Federico Ugolini, Shipping Adriatic Wines in the Roman Mediterranean: A Quantitative Approach
Published in BABESCH 96 (2021)
2019
Sam Heijnen, Living up to Expectations: Hadrian’s Military Representation in Freestanding Sculpture
Published in BABESCH 95 (2020)
2018
Mary Jane Cuyler, Legend and Archaeology at Ostia: P. Lucilius Gamala and the Quattro Tempietti
Published in BABESCH 94 (2019)
2017
Maximilian Rönnberg, Zum Sarkophag des Larth Velcha in Tarquinia und dem export karthagischer Marmorsarkophage nach Etrurien
Published in BABESCH 92 (2017), pp. 93-114
2016
Not awarded
2015
Not awarded
2014
Philipp Baas, Fasti Capitolini, Parther- und Actiumbogen – Monumente augusteischer Siegespropaganda
Published in BABESCH 90 (2015), pp. 109-124
2013
Guido Petruccioli, The Cancelleria reliefs, Vespasian the younger, and Domitian’s dynastic program.
Published in BABESCH 89 (2014), pp. 109-127
2012
Kim van Liefferinge, Water Use and Management in the Classical and Early Hellenistic Silver Industry of Thorikos and the Laurio.
Published in BABESCH 88 (2013), pp. 109-126
2011
Lieve Donnellan, Apollo mediating identities in ancient Greek Sicily. Published in BABESCH 87 (2012), pp. 173-186.
Suzanne van de Liefvoort, Marmora Splendida. Marble and Marble Imitation in Domestic Decoration – Some Case Studies from Pompeii and Herculaneum
Both published in BABESCH 87 (2012), pp. 187-204
2010
Dimitri Van Limbergen, Vinum picenum and oliva picena. Wine and Oil Presses in Central Adriatic Italy between the Late Republic and the Early Empire. Evidence and Problems
Published in BABESCH 86 (2011), pp. 71-94
2009
Not awarded
2008
Anthony Russell, Deconstructing Ashdoda: Migration, Hybridisation, and the Philistine Identity
Published in BABESCH 84 (2009), pp. 1-15
2007
David J. Newsome, Traffic, Space and Legal Change around the Casa del Marinaio at Pompeii (VII 15.1-2)
Published in BABESCH 84 (2009), pp. 121-142
2006
Josho Brouwers, From Horsemen to Hoplites. Some Remarks on Archaic Greek Warfare
Published in BABESCH 82/2 (2007), pp. 305-319