{{Short description|British archaeologist and museum curator (1954–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Roberta S. Tomber | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GB|FSA}} | image = Roberta_Tomber.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1954 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date|2022|05|01|df=yes}} (aged 67–68) | death_place = | death_cause = | occupation = Archaeologist | awards = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | discipline = | sub_discipline = | workplaces ={{Plainlist| *Museum of London Archaeology Service *University of Southampton *British Museum }} }}
'''Roberta S. Tomber''' {{post-nominals|country=GB|FSA}} (1954 – 1 May 2022) was a British archaeologist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fautores.org/pages/obituaries.htm#Tomber |title=Obituaries: Roberta S. Tomber |date=2022 |publisher=Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores |accessdate=2 June 2022}}</ref>
==Biography== Tomber had worked for the Museum of London Archaeology Service (1988–2001) and the University of Southampton (2002–2004) before joining the British Museum as an Honorary Visiting Researcher in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG231494 |title=Dr Roberta Tomber |publisher=British Museum |accessdate=2 June 2022}}</ref> Her ceramic research focussed on ancient Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean contacts.
She was elected a member of the council of the Roman Society in June 2019.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.romansociety.org/Portals/0/Documents/Annual%20report%202019.pdf |title= Society for the Promotions of Roman Studies Annual Report for 2019 |publisher=SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ROMAN STUDIES |date=2020}}</ref> She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1995.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://mailchi.mp/sal/salon-issue-547183?e=0c0a35e884#remembered |title=Deceased Fellows |magazine=Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |date=25 May 2022 |issue=491}}</ref>
==Publications== *Tomber, R. 2013. "Pots, coins and trinkets in Rome’s trade with the East", in PS Wells (ed) ''Rome Beyond its Frontiers: Imports, Attitudes and Practices'' (Journal Roman Archaeology Supp 94). Portsmouth Rhode Island, 87–104. *Tomber, R., Blue, L., and Abraham, S. (eds) 2010. ''Migration, Trade and Peoples, Part I: Indian Ocean Commerce and the Archaeology of Western India'', The British Association for South Asian Studies. *Tomber, R. 2008. ''Indo-Roman trade: from pots to pepper''. London, Duckworth. *Tomber, R. 2007. "Rome and Mesopotamia – importers into India in the first millennium AD", ''Antiquity'' 81, 972–88. *Tomber, R. and Dore, J. 1998. ''The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection. A Handbook.'' Museum of London Archaeology Service Monography 2. London, MOLAS. *Davies, B., Richardson, B., and Tomber, R. 1994. ''A Dated Typology of Early Roman Pottery from the City of London'' (CBA Res Rep 98). Council for British Archaeology.
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