Ricerc@Sapienza

Motya: investigating ancient Mediterranean cultures. Excavation, interdisciplinary study and analyses, interpretation and outreach

Anno

2017

Proponente Lorenzo Nigro - Professore Ordinario

Struttura

Sottosettore ERC del proponente del progetto

Componenti gruppo di ricerca

Componente	Categoria
Caterina De Vito	Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Luca Benvenuti	Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Rino Ragno	Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Elisabetta Gallo	Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente il gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member of the research group
Licia De Vito	Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente il gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member of the research group
Francesco Guizzi	Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Manuela Sabatino	Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente il gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member of the research group
Lorenzo Farina	Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Andrea Billi	Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project

Componente	Qualifica	Struttura	Categoria
Maria Pamela Toti	Archeologist, PhD	Fondazione G. Whitaker, Palermo, direttrice Museo Mozia	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Paola Misuraca	Architect	Soprintendenza BBCCAA di Trapani	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Rossella Giglio	Inspector Archaeologist	Soprintendenza BBCCAA di Trapani	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giuseppina Mammina	Numismatic	Soprintendenza BBCCAA di Trapani	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Sebastiano Tusa	Archaeologist, PhD	Soprintendente del Mare, Sicilia	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Francesca Oliveri	Archeologist, PhD	Soprintendenza del Mare, Sicilia	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Federica Spagnoli	Archeologits, PhD	Soprintendenza del Mare, Sicilia, c.e. SABAP	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Domenico Di Mauro	Geophysicist, PhD	INGV	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Stefao Ferrari	Restorer	Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Rome	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Francesca Spatafora	Archaeologist, PhD	National Archaeological Museum "A. Salinas", Palermo	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Cecilia Guastella	Archaeologist, PhD	National Archaeological Museum "A. Salinas", Palermo, c.e.	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Francesca Alhaique	Zoo-Archaeologist	Prehistoric Ethnographic Museum "L. Pigorini", Rome	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Francesco Vescera	Agronomist	SCSGS - Sicily	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giulia Rocco	Lecturer, PhD	University of Tor Vergata, Rome	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Piero Bartoloni	Archaeologist, Emeritus	University of Sassari	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Lucio Calcagnile	Physicist	CEDAD - University of Salento	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Claude Doumet-Serhal	Archaeologist, PhD	British Museum, Expedition to Sidon (Lebanon)	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Gail Caddy	Paleo-geologist	Honor Frost Foundation, London	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Liza Matisoo-Smith	Genetist	University of Otago - New Zeland	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat	Paleo-botanist	St. Joseph University, Beirut - Lebanon	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Pierre Zelloua	Genetist	Lebanese University, Beirut - Lebanon	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Chiara Fiaccavento	Archaeologist, PhD	University College London	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Diana Balboa Lagunero	Archaeologist, PhD	Universidad Complutense, Madrid	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Ioannis Liritzis	Physicist, archaeometrist	University of Aegaeum, Rhodes, Greece	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Heather D. Parker	Epigraphist	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Christophe Morhange	Paleo-geomorphologist	University of Aix-Marseille, France	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Bruno D'Andrea	Archaeologist, PhD	University of Montpellier 3, France	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Nicola Chiarenza	Archaeologist, PhD	University of Kiel, Germany	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Andrea Perugini	Archaeologist, Postgraduated	University of Ghent, Belgium	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Sara Giardino	Archaeologist, PhD	University of Tübingen, Germany	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Adriano Orsingher	Archaeologist, PhD	University of Tübingen, Germany	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Salvatore Rubino	Biologist	University of Sassari, Germany	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Teresa Rinaldi	Biologist	Dept. of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Salvatore Tricoli	Restorer	Dept. Sciences of Antiquities, Sapienza,	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Andrea Pieroni	Technician	Dept. of Oriental Studies, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Mattia Crespi	Engineer, Full Professor	DICEA, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Chiara Petrioli	Informatics, Full Professor	Dept. of Computer Sciences, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Pierfrancesco Lombardo	Engineer, Full Professor	Dept. INFOCOM, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Daria Montanari	Archaeologist, PhD	Dept. of Oriental Studies, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Lucilla Fabrizi	Geologist, PhD student	Dept. of Earth Science, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Laura Sadori	Botanic, Professor	Dept. of Enviromental Biology, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Federica Micale	Pedagogist/Media expert	Consortium GARR - coursera.org	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Francesco Mura	Chemist, Research Fellow	CNIS, Sapienza	Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution

Abstract

Sapienza investigations at Motya, resumed in 2002 (Great Excavation since 2010), with systematic excavations in 7 areas have provided decisive data for the study of ancient Mediterranean.Motya was a major prehistoric settlement (2nd mill. BC) and a flourishing Phoenician harbour-city (8th-4th cent BC).
In the light of achieved results, the new excavation permit (2017-2022) extended Sapienza excavation areas to the Cappiddazzu, Casa dei Mosaici and Casermetta. This brought to 10 the areas under exploration offering new important opportunities to ongoing research.
With the publication of the report volume Landing on Motya (2017) the first step towards the investigation of the earliest Phoenician colony was accomplished and the Expedition scientific goals were refined:
1. PREHISTORY in 2nd Mill. BC: the role of Motya in Mediterranean interconnections (sea-routes, population, exchange and imports)
2. THE EARLIEST PHOENICIAN COLONY: modes, components and chronology of Phoenician colony as reflected in the "Cappiddazzu"
3. TEMPLES as PLACES of CULTURAL MEDIATION in the Sacred Area of the Kothon with Temples of Baal and of Astarte compared with the Temple of Herakles/Melqart in "Cappiddazzu" area
4. THE CITY-WALLS why and when Motya was given a monumental fortification line? Which are the main architectural and poliorcetic features of its city-walls? Excavations between the East Tower and the North Gate aim at answering these questions
5. THE TOPHET: exact and life sciences approaches (aDNA) to the Tophet enlighten religious ideology and the creation of a new cultural identity
6. CULTURAL and TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS and HYBRIDIZATION in materials and tools, traced by petrographic, SEM, XRD, Photosensors, isotope and anthracological analyses
7. ANCIENT SOCIETY (DEMOGRAPHIC MODEL) by means of an integrated study of archaeological data from the site and its necropolises
ANALYSES in specialized LABS will provide necessary data to deepen archaeological investigations

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