Ilaria Incordino

Ilaria Incordino

Italian-Egyptian Archaeological Mission at the Monastery of ‘Abba Nefer’ at Manqabad (Asyut, Egypt), University of Naples “L’Orientale" : Deputy Director
2022 Shelby White and Leon Levy Program Grant Recipient
Incordino

The Necropolis of the Third Dynasty at Bet Khallaf (Egypt)

Since 2007, Dr. Ilaria Incordino has participated in several archaeological missions in Egypt (Archaeological Mission in the Eastern Desert (Egypt), University of Naples “L’Orientale," University of Cairo, University of Helwan & Archaeological Mission at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis (Egypt), University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Boston University.) She obtained a BA and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” with a dissertation about the  “Chronological Problems of the IIIrd Egyptian Dynasty. A re-examination of the archaeological documents”. She also taught Egyptology for BA students (72 hours) and organized several conferences, seminars and summer schools (2019 Summer School “The Pottery of the Nile Valley. Classification, documentation and new methodology of analysis”; 2017 CRE 2017 Current Research in Egyptology conference; 2015 Seminar “Flora Trade between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity”, 2008 the ”First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology”) at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She is author of several papers and a monograph about the Bet Khallaf site and is currently Deputy Director of the Italian-Egyptian Archaeological Mission at the Monastery of ‘Abba Nefer’ at Manqabad (Asyut, Egypt), University of Naples “L’Orientale”.

Dr. Ilaria Incordino, archaeologist and Egyptologist is the lead researcher for this Shelby White and Leon Levy Program project. She has conducted some archaeological surveys at the site of Bet Khallaf and several documentation missions at different museum institutions where the funerary equipment from the site is currently kept. She will coordinate the contribution of researchers to develop the database and open access publication of the material, as well as the editing of the final monograph.

 

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