Phd in PHD SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Research: "Genus mobile and Rome: interactions between cultural identities in the archaeology of Roman Africa"

PhD student in Classical Archaeology at La Sapienza University, he presented a project entitled “Genus mobile and Rome: interactions between cultural identities in the archaeology of Roman Africa.” The aim of this project is to investigate the interactions between the nomadic and semi-nomadic communities present in the provinces of Roman Africa and the centralised power of Rome, following the centrifugal and centripetal trajectories that led to integration and clashes, including military ones, composed in the complex game of relations underlying the development of the aforementioned provinces, maintaining a focus on archaeological documentation but without neglecting historiographical, epigraphic, and numismatic sources. He attended a Bachelor in Classical Literature (with a focus on Oriental studies) at the University of Pisa, presenting a thesis entitled ‘Military equipment in the 1st century AD on the Rhine limes’ and a Master's degree in Classical Archaeology at the same university, presenting a thesis entitled 'Cura aquarum and local patronage: case studies of the relationship between water and power in the provincial area.“ At the same time, he won a place on the five-year Ordinary Course at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in the Ancient History and Classical Philology class, from which he obtained his degree with a thesis entitled ”Symmetriarum rationes: between textual reality and architectural reality, two case studies." He then attended the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage at the University of Pisa, specializing with a thesis entitled “Hydraulic engineering and central authority: two case studies from the Iron Age to Rome,” also winning a scholarship on the theme “Techniques, methods, and theories of ancient architecture.” He worked on the Locri Survey Project at the Scuola Normale Superiore (supervisor: Prof. Gianfranco Adornato), on the Pisa Suburb Project, excavation of the former Scheibler area (supervisor: Prof. Fabio Fabiani), and on the GMAP Project in Iraqi Kurdistan (supervisor: Prof. Rocco Palermo). Always keeping a keen eye on historical and textual documentation as the primary form of documentary dialogue on archaeological reality, his research interests include: Roman public infrastructure (especially aqueducts), archaeology of Roman military equipment (especially between the late Republic and early Empire) and technological relations with the East, Greek and Roman technical treatises on siege warfare (Bitone, Philo of Byzantium, Heron), architecture and infrastructure (Vitruvius, Frontinus) and topography (Gromaticus Veteres, Hyginus), as well as the study of provincial realities and their relationship with the central power of Rome (especially for the eastern and African provinces).