Bitalemi Sanctuary in the Archaic Period Overview

PUBLISHED 2022

After the degree in Classics, she achieved a master’s degree in Classical Archaeology at the Italian Archaeological School in Athens, a PhD in Classical Archaeology and a scholarship for two-year post-doctoral research in Classical Archaeology (1998 - 2000) at the University of Palermo.

Since 2001 she has been adjunct professor in Archeology of Magna Graecia for the degree and master’s degree courses in Classics at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and at the University of Genoa.

Since 1992 she has been involved in archaeological research carried out in Crete by the Italian Archaeological School in Athens to study the plain and coarse wares of Roman and Byzantine periods from Gortys; since 2005 she has coordinated a team of students and scholars to complete the publication of the excavations carried out in the Sixties in Bitalemi sanctuary at Gela, supported by the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publication for the years 2011-2013.

She is involved in some international research projects, as the EU funded program “Pythagoras II” (2005-2008) on Late Roman pottery in the Aegean between V and IX centuries and the publication of a Handbook for Coroplastic Researches (HaCoR), with an international team of scholars, to be published in the Oxford Handbook series.

She has carried out excavations at Rome, Volterra, Incoronata di Metaponto (Matera), Gela and Akragas in Sicily, Leptis Magna in Lybia and Gortys (Crete).

She’s author of three books and over 80 papers regarding her main interest field: Greek coroplastics from Archaic and Classical periods, archaeology of cult, Late Roman pottery from Gortys and Roman domestic architecture from Kos.