Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

email: marialetizia.caldelli@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913780
building: Lettere e Filosofia
room: 12

Associate professor of Roman History at Sapienza - University of Rome, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (since 21/01/2014 she is qualified as full professor of Ancient History); professor of Latin Epigraphy at "Scuola Nazionale di Archeologia" of Rome; member of the Doctorate in Philology and History of the Ancient World at Sapienza - University of Rome. Since a.a. 2012/2013 she has started an Erasmus programme with the École Normale Supérieure of Paris.
Since a.a. 1985/86 she is active as a scholar and in charge as a university teacher. She has been awarded with grants at Bologna, Naples, Heidelberg, Paris. She has attended at the international project aimed at providing a new edition of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, volume VI (Rome). She has worked on the Stadium and Odeon of Rome, in collaboration with the École Française de Rome, and on the project "Le quotidien municipale dans l‘Occident romain", in collaboration with the équipe UMR 8585 of the French CNRS. In the last twenty years, she has worked in team with the “Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma” on the reorganisation of the epigraphic collections. She actually works on the project GIEFFRA (Groupe International d’Études sur les Femmes et la Famille dans la Rome Antique); she also works in team with the Vatican Museum, Department of Decorative Arts, for cataloging and study roman pondera. She participates to the programme “New definition of forgery in CIL, VI (Rome). Fakes, copies and modern inscriptions” of Sapienza, University of Rome. Since 2005 she directs (with F. Zevi) a project aimed at improving our knowledge of the Ostia epigraphic finds, and she has been appointed (with F. Zevi) for a new edition of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, volume XIV (Ostia).
She is responsible for the Ostian inscriptions of the EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma within the international project EAGLE - Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy: www.edr-edr.it).
During 2105 she has been Visiting Professor at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris, giving some lectures. She is member of the “Pontificia Accademia di Archeologia” and of the "Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte (INASA)". She is member of the editorial committee of Opuscula Epigraphica and Tituli.
She has participated to many international congresses in Italy and abroad. She has held several lectures and seminars, she has coordinated research groups and organized congresses. Her works are centred on the epigraphy of the entertainment (particularly on greek agonistics in the west area of the empire and on the gladiature); funerary epigraphy of Rome (particularly on colombarii and their connection with archaeology and social history); epigraphy of the Galliae; post-classical epigraphy and forgery (she works at the corpus of the Middle Age inscriptions of Rome: IMAI); ostian epigraphy.