Jonathan Charles Nelson Coulston FSA (5 July 1957 – 6 July 2024) was a British archaeologist and lecturer who specialised in Roman army studies and Roman art and architecture.
He was Senior Lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews.
His 1988 PhD thesis was titled "Trajan's column: the sculpting and relief content of a Roman propaganda monument".
He was a leading scholar on the iconography of Trajan's column and its use in studying the Roman army.
[3] Coulston was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1991.