Research: The Metallurgical Production of Ebla in Its Regional Context: Chrono-Typological, Functional and Contextual Analysis of IIIrd and IInd Millennium BCE Copper-Alloy Artefacts from Tell Mardikh/Ebla
Archaeology PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome:
Education:
- 10/2019 - 01/2022: MA degree in Archaeology, near-eastern curriculum, Sapienza University of Rome, score: 110/110 cum laude;
- 02/2016 - 07/2019: BA degree in Foreign Languages and Cultures (Arabic and English), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, score: 110/110 cum laude;
Scholarships and research experiences:
- 04/2025: Research grant for the project: Metallurgy at Ebla in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages: An Archaeological and Socioeconomic Study (Sapienza University of Rome);
- 01/2024 – 12/2024: Scholarship for the project: Urban Models of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq): Archaeology, Landscape, and Environment (Sapienza University of Rome);
- 06/2023 - 07/2023: Scholarship for junior research activity at Cyprus Institute, Nicosia (Cyprus);
- 03/2023 - 05/2023: Study and publication of unpublished archaeometallurgical materials from Hala Sultan Tekke (Larnaka, Cyprus);
- 09/2020 - 10/2020: Scholarship for thesis research at Freie Universität Berlin.
Excavation experience:
- Member of the Italian archaeological mission at Tell Ferzat, Damascus (Syria) since 2022;
- 09/2020 - 10/2020, participation to the archaeological excavation at the North-Eastern slope of the Palatine Hill, Rome.
Conferences:
- 06/06/2025: Ritual Commensality Practices at Ebla? An Assessment of the Archaeological Evidence (ICAANE);
- 11/02/2025: Kings, Priests and Ancestors: The Shaping and Celebration of Middle Bronze Age Northern Levantine Elites Through Visual Media as Seen from Tell Mardikh/Ebla