- Islamic' Architecture, Islamic Archaeology, Islamic pottery, Material Culture, Archaeology, Archaeology of Mediterranean Trade, and 38 moreMaritime Trade Ceramics (Archaeology), Mamluk Archaeology, Mamluk pottery, Ceramics and medieval rural settlements (Archaeology), Ceramic Technology, Pottery technology and function, Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes: Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean, Medieval Food, Medieval spices, Food History, Islamic influences on European cookery, Arab Cooking, Islamic Art, Mediterranean Studies, Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Museum Studies, Early Islamic Archaeology, Mamluk Studies, Medieval Pottery, Medieval Islamic History, Mamluk Cairo, Mamluk History, Medieval Islamic Ceramics, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Anatolian Archaeology, Islamic ceramics, Fustat, History of Venice, Medieval History of Venice, Late Medieval History, Eastern Mediterranean, Venice, Republic of Venice, Cultural Transfer Studies, Cross-cultural transfers, Cooking and Food Preparation (archaeology), Anthropology of Food, and Household Archaeologyedit
- I graduated from Ca' Foscari University in Venice (2004) and obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies (Islamic Archaeolog... moreI graduated from Ca' Foscari University in Venice (2004) and obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies (Islamic Archaeology) from the same university (2009). Since 2018, I’m researcher at the Institut Français du Proche Orient in Beirut, working on a project focused on the study of material culture and human settlement in Lebanon during the Islamic period. My research activity has primarily focused on the study of the socio-economic history of the Islamic world through the analysis of material culture and, more in particular, of ceramic artefacts, with a particular interest in the circulation of Islamic artefacts in the Mediterranean region. I participated in numerous archaeological research projects in the Islamic world, in Syria, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan and Lebanon. Over the years, I’ve collaborated with various international museums (Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Brusselsedit
In 2023, an archaeological research project was initiated by the University of Udine, in cooperation with the Dohuk Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on the site of Bazhera, on the eastern bank of... more
In 2023, an archaeological research project was initiated by the University of Udine, in cooperation with the Dohuk Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on the site of Bazhera, on the eastern bank of the Nahr al-Khazir, in the Akre district. The site consists of a partially standing building, which would have played a role in the communication system of the region during the late Islamic period, as one of the stations in support of travellers. The main objective of the project is to reconstruct the functioning of this structure, its material culture and its relationship with other archaeological remains identified on the settlement and with the surrounding landscape, in order to provide new data regarding land management and protection of a frontier region of the Ottoman empire which has been neglected by archaeological research. Keywords Ottoman archaeology. Ottoman material culture. Ottoman stations. Khans and routes of the Islamic world. Late Islamic Kurdistan.
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Research Interests: Islamic Archaeology, Mamluk History, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Archaeology of Mediterranean Trade, Islamic ceramics, and 7 moreMamluk Cairo, Chinese Porcelain in Foreign Countries, Chinese Porcelain, Fustat, Islamic Diplomacy, Venice and the East, and Royal Museums of Art & History
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Sphero-conical Vessels
Journal of Islamic Archaeology 3-2, 2016
Sphero-conical Vessels
Journal of Islamic Archaeology 3-2, 2016
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Les fouilles archéologiques conduites dans le secteur urbain du Bustan Nassif à Baalbek, situé au sud de la citadelle à l’intérieure de l’enceinte de la ville, ont livré un assemblage céramique homogène et représentatif de la nature de... more
Les fouilles archéologiques conduites dans le secteur urbain du Bustan Nassif à Baalbek, situé au sud de la citadelle à l’intérieure de l’enceinte
de la ville, ont livré un assemblage céramique homogène et représentatif de la nature de l’occupation du secteur. Des céramiques glaçurées utilisées
comme vaisselle de table ainsi que des pots à cuire et des jarres de stockage ou cruches à eau ont été mises au jour, témoignes d’une occupation modeste mais intensive. Une quantité moindre de céramiques à pâte siliceuse a été également recensée. L’assemblage des céramiques communes employées sur le site montre une tradition productive uniforme, bien que l’introduction d’une nouvelle pâte céramique et d’une exécution du décor moins soignée (pour les céramiques glaçurées) marque à un certain moment le corpus céramique de la ville. Le matériel attesté dans le Bustan Nassif o1re un aperçu des productions di1usées dans la région entre le XIIe et le XIVe siècles, ou plus probablement début du XVe siècle, montrant des similarités plus marquées avec les assemblages du Bilad al-Sham méridional et en particulier, avec Damas.
de la ville, ont livré un assemblage céramique homogène et représentatif de la nature de l’occupation du secteur. Des céramiques glaçurées utilisées
comme vaisselle de table ainsi que des pots à cuire et des jarres de stockage ou cruches à eau ont été mises au jour, témoignes d’une occupation modeste mais intensive. Une quantité moindre de céramiques à pâte siliceuse a été également recensée. L’assemblage des céramiques communes employées sur le site montre une tradition productive uniforme, bien que l’introduction d’une nouvelle pâte céramique et d’une exécution du décor moins soignée (pour les céramiques glaçurées) marque à un certain moment le corpus céramique de la ville. Le matériel attesté dans le Bustan Nassif o1re un aperçu des productions di1usées dans la région entre le XIIe et le XIVe siècles, ou plus probablement début du XVe siècle, montrant des similarités plus marquées avec les assemblages du Bilad al-Sham méridional et en particulier, avec Damas.
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... 11, a, b, gk, p, q. Yellow and Green Ware The body is usually hard and compact and of pink or orange colour. ... Turquoise-glazed Ware The body of Turquoise-glazed Ware can be yellow, buff or light pink, and is fine-grained, compact... more
... 11, a, b, gk, p, q. Yellow and Green Ware The body is usually hard and compact and of pink or orange colour. ... Turquoise-glazed Ware The body of Turquoise-glazed Ware can be yellow, buff or light pink, and is fine-grained, compact and hard. ...
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Ifpo is organizing a series of thematic workshops for 2019 on « Ceramic Studies in Lebanon », aimed at creating a scientific dynamic around archaeological projects involving a ceramic dimension. The objective is to bring together... more
Ifpo is organizing a series of thematic workshops for 2019 on « Ceramic Studies in Lebanon », aimed at creating a scientific dynamic around archaeological projects involving a ceramic dimension. The objective is to bring together researchers working on material culture, and more particularly on ceramic assemblages in Lebanon, by tracing thematic paths that will make it possible to tackle, on the one hand, the typological and chronological analysis of finds from archaeological context, but also to create a debate on the state of the art and research perspectives. The first of these workshops focuses on the Beqaa Valley, « Ceramic Studies in the Beqaa Valley: A Regional Perspective ». It brings together experts working on ceramic materials from different periods. The ceramic assemblages will be placed in their regional context but also treated in relation to extra-regional connections. Moreover, this workshop aims at encouraging the scientific debate on future perspectives of ceramic studies in this region of Lebanon and to reveal strong and weak points of research potential.
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Cet ouvrage constitue un premier travail de synthèse sur la production et la distribution des céramiques de la région de la moyenne vallée de l'Oronte à la période islamique. Partant des données archéologiques en contexte, ce travail... more
Cet ouvrage constitue un premier travail de synthèse sur la production et la distribution des céramiques de la région de la moyenne vallée de l'Oronte à la période islamique. Partant des données archéologiques en contexte, ce travail porte sur l'étude du matériel céramique issu des fouilles du « Quartier Nord‑Est » de la ville d'Apamée et plus particulièrement de plusieurs installations domestiques associées à quelques espaces artisanaux, datées du XIIe au XIVe siècle. Les productions identifiées sont présentées au sein de leur contexte de découverte. Elles sont également comparées avec d'autres sites du Bilad al‑Sham, afin de mettre en évidence leurs contextes de production et d'approvisionnement à l'échelle régionale et interrégionale. De nouvelles références chronologiques et typologiques ont pu être établies, en particulier en ce qui concerne le répertoire des céramiques communes (glaçurées et non glaçurées). L'étude apporte également des informations inédites sur la nature et la durée de l'occupation islamique de la ville d'Apamée, données généralement absentes des sources écrites. Elle a ainsi permis de souligner le rôle qu'a pu jouer la ville d'Apamée, et non pas uniquement sa citadelle dans le contexte socio‑politique de la région à l'époque ayyoubide et mamelouke.
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Check the video on the website Khamseen Islamic Art History Online This presentation provides a general introduction to sphero-conical vessels, interpretations of their various uses, and related archaeological evidence, with a particular... more
Check the video on the website Khamseen Islamic Art History Online
This presentation provides a general introduction to sphero-conical vessels, interpretations of their various uses, and related archaeological evidence, with a particular focus on the collection issued from the site of Baalbek in Lebanon. Scholars have suggested that these ceramic objects may have been used for different purposes, for instance, as wine and beer flasks or as vessels to store perfume and mercury. Recent archaeological excavations in the area of Bustan Nassif, south of the citadel of Baalbek, have yielded a diverse and challenging corpus of such sphero-conical vessels. These newly uncovered artifacts offer intriguing new evidence to understand their multiple functions, especially within a military context.
This presentation provides a general introduction to sphero-conical vessels, interpretations of their various uses, and related archaeological evidence, with a particular focus on the collection issued from the site of Baalbek in Lebanon. Scholars have suggested that these ceramic objects may have been used for different purposes, for instance, as wine and beer flasks or as vessels to store perfume and mercury. Recent archaeological excavations in the area of Bustan Nassif, south of the citadel of Baalbek, have yielded a diverse and challenging corpus of such sphero-conical vessels. These newly uncovered artifacts offer intriguing new evidence to understand their multiple functions, especially within a military context.
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Have epidemics changed the history of the Near and Middle East? How did societies from this region react to this phenomenon? This serie of podcasts wants to look back at the history of epidemics in a region which has been regularly... more
Have epidemics changed the history of the Near and Middle East? How did societies from this region react to this phenomenon?
This serie of podcasts wants to look back at the history of epidemics in a region which has been regularly affected during the past, relying on the work of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and philosophers.
Episode #4 “The Black Death: Venice and the Creation of the Lazzaretto” (with Lara Meneghini), discusses about how the city of Venice, leader of the Mediterranean trade during the Middle Ages and Early Modern History, reacted to the threat of the plague in order to guarantee its economic interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lara Meneghini discusses about the creation of the lazzaretti and their role in preventing the spread of epidemics. Through an historical and archaeological perspective, she presents the material evidence of these quarantine structures and of the passage of goods and merchants coming from the Near and Middle East.
https://www.ifporient.org/a-history-of-epidemics-in-the-near-and-middle-east/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ypBvwGG2o&t=722s
This serie of podcasts wants to look back at the history of epidemics in a region which has been regularly affected during the past, relying on the work of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and philosophers.
Episode #4 “The Black Death: Venice and the Creation of the Lazzaretto” (with Lara Meneghini), discusses about how the city of Venice, leader of the Mediterranean trade during the Middle Ages and Early Modern History, reacted to the threat of the plague in order to guarantee its economic interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lara Meneghini discusses about the creation of the lazzaretti and their role in preventing the spread of epidemics. Through an historical and archaeological perspective, she presents the material evidence of these quarantine structures and of the passage of goods and merchants coming from the Near and Middle East.
https://www.ifporient.org/a-history-of-epidemics-in-the-near-and-middle-east/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ypBvwGG2o&t=722s
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This bilingual English/Arabic manual is intended to accompany the training of future ceramic specialists in the Arab world. Resulting from the collaboration of four major institutions of French archaeology abroad: the Section française de... more
This bilingual English/Arabic manual is intended to accompany the training of future ceramic specialists in the Arab world. Resulting from the collaboration of four major institutions of French archaeology abroad: the Section française de la direction des Antiquités du Soudan (Sfdas), the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao), the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) and the Centre français de recherche de la péninsule Arabique (Cefrepa), it draws on the recent work of specialists from the Nile Valley, the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula to shed light on the theoretical reflections that have enriched ceramic studies in recent decades. Providing a genuine field tool, this volume is nonetheless a skilfully illustrated collection of the contribution of ceramic studies to the understanding of human history.