Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

SSD L-OR/07: Semitistica Lingue e letterature dell Etiopia
SC 10/N1: Culture del Vicino Oriente antico, del Medio Oriente e dell Africa

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Dipartimento di Scienze dell antichità
Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia
Sapienza Università di Roma

1. ACADEMIC POSITION

a. Present position
2020/ Associate Professor (Dipartimento di Scienze dell antichità. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Sapienza Università di Roma).

b. Previous positions
2011/2020 Researcher (Dipartimento di Scienze dell antichità. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Sapienza Università di Roma).
2010/2011 Marie Curie Fellow (Chercheur à temps déterminé Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship), UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée , Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

2. EDUCATION AND DEGREES

2008 PhD in Linguistics. Università di Firenze. Tutor: prof. Paolo Marrassini.
2006 Visiting Fellow to Institut de Recherche sur le Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée (Aix en Provence) summer.
2002 MA Languages and Literatures of ancient Ethiopia. Università di Firenze. Tutor: prof. Paolo Marrassini.

3. RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative Semitic linguistics, lexicon and onomastics;
Epigraphy and archaeology of pre-Islamic South Arabia;
Aspects and patterns of the pre-Islamic Arabian society and religion, esp. concerning the expiation rituals;
Birth and diffusion of the Western Semitic linear scripts;
Ancient Aramaic documentation.

4. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

a. Archaeological Missions
2017 Mission archéologique franco-éthiopienne à Wakarida (Western Tigray, Ethiopia), dir. I. Gajda (CNRS) Participation to the archaeological investigations.
2013 Khor Mughsayl excavation (Dhofar, Oman), Office of His Majesty the Sultan for Cultural Affairs Italian Mission to Oman (University of Pisa) Direction of the excavation.
2003/ Italian Archaeological Mission to Yemen (dir. prof. Alessandro de Maigret - IsIAO, Rome / University of Naples L Orientale ). Excavations to Bar qish/Yathill Field direction as archaeologist and epigraphist.
2003/2008 French-Italian Archaeological Mission to Qatab n, Yemen (dir. A. de Maigret - Ch. Robin - IsIAO - University of Naples L'Orientale - MAE (IT) - CEFAS (FR) - MAE (FR) - Ministry of Finance (YE). Archaeological investigations to Tamna and ayd ibn Aqil Archaeologist and epigraphist.

b. Other scientific collaborations
2019/ Dizionario fenicio-punico (project Dizionari del Vicino Oriente antico ). Unione Accademica Nazionale ISMEO. Member of the working group.
2016 Yemen patrimonio dell umanità, archeologia arte e architettura . Museo d Arte Orientale di Ca Pesaro, Venice (20 October 16 December 2016) Scientific collaboration to the exhibition.
2010 Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions (CSAI). University of Pisa (dir. prof. A. Avanzini). Research Fellowship: Scientific collaboration, editing of epigraphic and archaeological cards.

5. ACADEMIC ACTIVITES

a. PhD boards
2013/ Member of the PhD Program in Philology and History of the Ancient World (Sapienza University of Rome).

b. Editorial and scientific commitees
2017/ Series Studi Semitici NS (Rome).
2017/ Journal Oriens Antiquus, series nova (Rome).
2015/ Museum of Near East, Egypt and Mediterraean (Sapienza University Museums, Rome).

c. Memberships
2016/ Consulta Universitaria per gli Studi su Asia e Africa CUSTAA (Italy).
2011/ Membre associé UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée (CNRS, Paris).
2011/ Member Marie Curie Alumni Association (EC Brussels).

6. TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND COURSES

2021/ Semitic Philology Cultural Heritage in the Near and Middle East, and in Africa (ENG) Sapienza.
2011/ Semitic Epigraphy Archaeological Sciences; Oriental Languages and Civilizations (IT) Sapienza.
2011/ Semitic Epigraphy and Philology Archaeology (IT) Sapienza.
2018/19 Semitic Philology (IT) University of Florence.

7. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCED PROJECTS

2021/ Peccato, impurità e malattie. Ritualità e linguaggio del processo di espiazione nell'Arabia del I millennio a.C. in una prospettiva diacronica e comparativa (Sapienza Projects);
2019/ L'area sacra di Baraqish (Yemen): analisi e sviluppi comparativi dei dati inediti dalle ultime campagne di scavo nel tempio di Athtar (2004-2006) (Sapienza Projects);
2017 Fondo di Finanziamento delle Attività Base della Ricerca (FFABR), ANVUR (Ministerial funding);
2013 15th Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Sapienza Meetings);
2010/2011 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship - FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF. Project ASACOSINS. Grant Agreement N° PIEF-GA-2009-252917 (Europaean Agency Single beneficiary).

8. CONGRESSES AND MEETINGS IN ITALY AND ABROAD

a. Organization
2022 Egitto e Vicino Oriente antichi: tra passato e futuro (EVOA 2021) (Sapienza University of Rome), 30 June-1 July 2022. Member of the organizing committee.
2020 Gli studi semitici di Giovanni Garbini. Una commemorazione a 3 anni dalla scomparsa (Sapienza University of Rome), 10 January 2020. Organizer.
2016 20éme Rencontres Sabéennes (Perugia), 9-11 June 2016. Member of the organizing committee
2014 15th Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Sapienza University of Rome), 17-19 September 2014. Organizer.

b. Participation as speaker
2021 Tribal movements and cultural intersections in the Yemenite Jawf valley: The case of the Am r : Costeggiando l Eurasia. 1° Congresso di archeologia del paesaggio e di geografia storica tra il Mare Inferiore (Oceano Indiano) e il Mare Superiore (Mar Mediterraneo) (Sapienza University of Rome), 5-8 October 2021.
2020 Oracular consultations in pre-Islamic South Arabia: terminology, practices and settings : If a City is Situated on Seven Heights... Current Insights into Ancient Near Eastern Divination (Istituto Svizzero di Roma / Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma), 23-24 September 2020 (webinar).
2020 L Arabia meridionale di Giovanni Garbini: tra epigrafia, storia e linguistica : Gli studi semitici di Giovanni Garbini. Una commemorazione a 3 anni dalla scomparsa (Sapienza University of Rome), 10 January 2020.
2019 Publishing Baraqish: some epigraphic marginalia : 23rd Rencontres Sabéennes. Out of Arabia: South Arabian long-distance trade in Antiquity (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), 13-15 June 2019.
2019 Forma del dio, spazio del culto e pietre nere : problemi aperti e qualche nuovo dato dall Arabia preislamica . Onorare gli dèi, rappresentare il potere regale, ammirare il monumento. Canoni, contesti, funzioni e fruizioni della statuaria divina e regale nell Egitto, nel Vicino e Medio Oriente e nell Asia Centrale. Convegno degli Orientalisti antichisti della Sapienza (Sapienza University of Rome), 30-31 May 2019.
2017 The expiatory rite before Islam: data from ancient South Arabian texts : ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, 46th International Conference: Arabs before Islam (The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford), 17-19 July 2017.
2017 Il rito di espiazione sudarabico antico: uno sguardo ai nuovi dati dai templi di Baraqish (Yemen) : Egitto e Vicino Oriente antichi: tra passato e futuro (University of Pisa), 5-6 giugno 2017.
2016 L acqua tra rito e (mala)gestione nel contesto templare sudarabico : Giornata di studio su Acqua e religione nel Vicino Oriente antico (Sapienza University dof Rome), 17 November 2016.
2016 Viaggio intorno a un d: riflessioni su alcune lingue semitiche epigrafiche tra scrittura e fonologia : Dalla tavoletta al tablet II: giornata multidisciplinare di studi epigrafici tra problemi ancora aperti e nuove tecnologie (Sapienza University of Rome), 18 May 2016.
2015 Light and shade from the epigraphic documentation in the Athtar temple at Baraqish: an overview : Rencontres Sabéennes 19 (University of Pisa), 18-20 June 2015.
2015 Problemi e metodi di epigrafia semitica: qualche spunto dalla documentazione sudarabica antica : Dalla tavoletta al tablet : giornata multidisciplinare di studi epigrafici tra problemi ancora aperti e nuove tecnologie (Sapienza University of Rome), 23-24 February 2015.
2014 Introduction: Rome and the Afro-Asiatic studies : 15th Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Sapienza Università di Roma), 17-19 September 2014.
2014 The excavation of the temple of Athtar dhu-Qab at Bar qish. Stratigraphic data and historical reconstruction : Seminar for Arabian Studies (British Museum, London), 24-27 July 2014.
2013 Donne d Arabia meridionale tra mito e realtà: dalla Regina di Saba alle Ierodule : Donne d Oriente. 1a Giornata di studi sulla donna nel mondo vicino-orientale e mediterraneo antico (Sapienza University of Rome), 6 December 2013.
2013 Transgression and Society: some reflections on expiatory texts : Rencontres Sabéennes 17 (Collège de France, Paris), 6-8 June 2013.
2012 Alessandro de Maigret and the last campaigns at Baraqish: a personal reminiscence : Activity of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen 1980-2010. A Commemoration of the Scientific and Academic Career of Professor Alessandro de Maigret (Ministero degli Esteri Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale, Rome), 11-12 June 2012.
2012 Ma in and Yathill, Yathill within Ma in : XVI Rencontres Sabéennes (University of Pisa), 6-9 June 2012.
2011 New Perspectives on Minaean Confession of Sins : Seminar for Arabian Studies (British Museum, London), 28-30 July 2011.
2011 Minaean Expiatory Texts: new data from Baraqish : XV Rencontres Sabéennes (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences and State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow), 25-27 May 2011.
2010 The excavation of a small shrine in the Market Square: Observations on the last phase of Tamna : XIV Rencontres Sabéennes (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Pergamon Museum, Berlin), 10-12 June 2010.
2009 Building materials in South Arabian construction inscriptions : Seminar for Arabian Studies (British Museum, London), 23-25 July 2009.
2009 A new construction inscription from the recently excavated Temple B in Baraqish : XIII Rencontres Sabéennes (CNRS, Cino del Duca Foundation, Paris), 4-6 June 2009.
2008 Excavations of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen: a Minaean necropolis at Bar qish and the Qatabanian necropolis of ayd bin Aq l : Society for Arabian Studies Biennial Conference: Death, Burial and the Transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions (British Museum, London), 27-29 November 2008.
2008 Clients and builders in South Arabian inscriptions : XII Rencontres Sabéennes (IsIAO, Rome), 11-13 June 2008.

[Updated July 2022]