Research: Local traditions and external influences in the glyptic art of Arslantepe VIA: a multidisciplinary and comparative investigation.
PhD candidate in Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome. The doctoral research aims to identify the iconographic, stylistic, and technical traditions of glyptic art in Upper Mesopotamia during the 5th and 4th millennia BC, using multivariate statistical analysis techniques. The iconographic corpus from Arslantepe VIA will be analyzed with the goal of outlining cultural groups and/or artisan workshops, as well as exploring the multicultural components and external relations of this society. To this end, the Arslantepe material will be compared with glyptic corpora from the sites of Tell Brak, Değirmentepe, and Tepe Gawra.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Archaeological Sciences and a Master's degree in Archaeology from the same University. Her Master's thesis focused on the iconography of glyptic art from Arslantepe VIA, analyzed using multivariate statistical methods (Re-reading the iconography of glyptic art from the palatial context of Arslantepe (3400-3100 BC) through a quantitative approach).
Since 2022, she has participated as an archaeologist and illustrator of archaeological finds in excavation campaigns and projects in Western Asia - Jordan, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Iraqi Kurdistan (French Archaeological Mission in the Qara Dagh, CNRS, Archéorient - Lyon)—and in Eastern Anatolia. In particular, she has regularly participated since 2022 as a student and from 2023 as a Fieldwork Assistant in the Italian Archaeological Mission in Eastern Anatolia (MAIAO) under the direction of Prof. Francesca Balossi Restelli.