Ludovico
Portuese
Email: 
ludovico.portuese@unime.it

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

SSD: L-OR/05
Profilo: Ricercatori Legge 240/10 - t.det.

CURRICULUM

Curriculum

Posizione attuale

- 04/2022: Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B («RtdB») in Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte del Vicino Oriente antico (L-OR/05) presso il Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DiCAM) dell’Università degli Studi di Messina. 
- 06/2021-in corso: Visiting Scholar presso il dipartimento di History of Art della University of Pennsylvania.

Posizioni precedenti

- 06/2021–03/2022: Assegnista di ricerca in Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte del Vicino Oriente antico presso il Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DiCAM) dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, nell’ambito di un finanziamento Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Global Fellowship, con un progetto dal titolo GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups; grant agreement No 101027543).
- 12/2020–03/2021: Ricercatore post-dottorato presso l’École pratique des hautes études – PSL Université Paris, all’interno del gruppo di ricerca UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, textes, archéologie, histoire, con un progetto dal titolo Rethinking the Neo-Assyrian Memes: An Examination of the Western-Centric Treatment of the Self-Representation of the Assyrian King.
- 11/2020–05/2021: Cultore della materia in Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte del Vicino Oriente antico presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche (DISUM) dell’Università degli Studi di Catania.
- 06/2020–11/2020: Assegnista di ricerca presso la Freie Universität Berlin, all’interno del gruppo di ricerca DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615–Rethinking Oriental Despotism, con un progetto dal titolo Despotic Kings or Dystopian Views? Representations of the Good Shepherd and Modes of Governance in the Times of Ashurnasirpal II, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal.

Titoli

- 29/03/2021–29/03/2030: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale a Professore Associato nel Settore Concorsuale 10/N1 – Culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, del Medio Oriente e dell’Africa, settore disciplinare L-OR/05 – Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte del Vicino Oriente Antico.
- 03/2014–09/2018: titolo di Dottore di ricerca in Archeologia del Vicino Oriente antico, conseguito in data 01/02/2019 presso la Freie Universität Berlin, con una tesi dal titolo The Audience of the Neo-Assyrian Ideology: Studies in the Access to the Royal Palaces of Ashurnasirpal II and Sargon II according to Archaeological, Visual, and Textual Sources, relatori il Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz e il Prof. Dr. Florian Janoscha Kreppner. Votazione: Summa Cum Laude.
- 09/2009–07/2012: laurea specialistica in Archeologia, curriculum Vicino Oriente ed Egittologia, conseguita in data 18 luglio 2012 presso l’Università degli Studi di Pisa, con una tesi dal titolo Testo e immagini nei monumenti pubblici neoassiri, relatori la Prof.ssa Stefania Mazzoni e il Prof. Giuseppe Del Monte. Votazione: 110/110 e lode.
- 09/2005–09/2009: laurea triennale in Scienze dei beni culturali, curriculum Vicino Oriente ed Egittologia, conseguita in data 30 settembre 2009 presso l’Università degli Studi di Pisa, con una tesi dal titolo Stele e rilievi rupestri neo-assiri: espressione della regalità nella periferia settentrionale e occidentale dell’impero, relatrice la Dott.ssa Candida Felli. 
- 2005: diploma di maturità scientifica conseguito presso il Liceo Scientifico “Quintino Cataudella” di Scicli (RG). Patente Europea del Computer ECDL.

Borse di studio e premi

- 2021: borsa di studio Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Global Fellowship (con bando H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-GF Global Fellowship, Work Programme year H2018-2020) per un incarico di ricerca di 24 mesi presso la University of Pennsylvania (UPenn, History of Art Department) e di 12 mesi presso l’Università degli Studi di Messina (Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne, DICAM), con un progetto dal titolo GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups, grant agreement No 101027543).
- 2019: conseguimento di un premio in denaro da parte dell’International Association for Assyriology (IAA) per la partecipazione al convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 65.
- 2014: borsa di studio della Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) per un soggiorno presso la Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie), con un progetto dal titolo Neo-Assyrian Communication Strategies during the reign of Assurbanipal.
- 2010: soggiorno promosso e finanziato dal Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico dell’Università degli Studi di Pisa per la partecipazione a seminari e lezioni presso l’Università di Aden nella repubblica dello Yemen.

Attività didattica

- 04/2021: seminario su Il Palazzo Assiro: Arte, Vita di Corte, Tradizione tenuto presso l’Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, DISUM.

Scavi archeologici

- 2020: membro della missione archeologica francese a Qasr Shemamok, Kurdistan, Iraq.
- 2011: scavo archeologico presso il sito di Khor Rori, Oman.
- 2009: scavo archeologico presso il sito di Tell Afis, Siria.
- 2008: scavo archeologico presso il sito di San Gaetano di Vada, Italia.
- 2007: ricognizione archeologica nell’Ager Firmanus (Fermo), Italia.

Partecipazione a congressi in qualità di relatore

- 2022: partecipazione al convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 66 dal tema “Cultural Contact – Cultures of Contact (Kultur–Kontakt–Kultur).” (Goethe University Frankfurt e Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 25–29 luglio), con un contributo dal titolo Appropriation and Re-Instrumentalization of Visual Motifs in Syro-Hittite and Assyrian Monumental Art: Nonverbal Expressions as Signs of Collective Identity.
- 2022: partecipazione al convegno quinto GeMANE- Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (Helsinki, 1–3 giugno), con un contributo dal titolo A Divine Love Affair in the Royal Garden:   Etiquette and Morality of the Assyrian Queen.
- 2021: partecipazione al convegno ASOR- American Society of Overseas Research (Chicago, 17–20 Novembre), con un contributo dal titolo A Gender Perspective on Manners and Etiquette in Ancient Assyria, presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Gender in the Ancient Near East”.
- 2021: partecipazione al convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 67 dal tema “Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East” (Università di Torino, 12–16 luglio), con un contributo dal titolo Table Manners and Etiquette in Assyria: A Sociological and Anthropological Approach.
- 2019: partecipazione al convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 65 dal tema “Gods, Kings and Capitals in the Ancient Near East” (Parigi, 8–12 luglio), con un contributo dal titolo The Wordless Metaphor in Neo-Assyrian Art: Context and Perception, presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Images”.
- 2019: partecipazione al convegno Broadening Horizons 6 dal tema “Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times and Spaces in Dialogue” (Freie Universität Berlin, 24–28 giugno), con un contributo dal titolo “Live and Let Live Images”: Metaphor and Interpictoriality in Neo-Assyrian art, presentato nella sessione “Visual and Textual Forms of Communication”.
- 2019: partecipazione al secondo incontro dei Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico-GRISeF dal tema Spazio umano e spazio divino: pensare e gestire la spazialità nel Vicino Oriente antico (Sapienza Università degli Studi di Roma, 21–22 febbraio), con un contributo dal titolo Imago imaginis. Le incisioni nei bassorilievi di Assurnasirpal II a Kalhu.
- 2018: partecipazione al convegno organizzato dalla EABS-European Association of Biblical Studies e la Society of Biblical Literature (Helsinki, 30 luglio–3 agosto) con un contributo dal titolo “And He Placed the Plant of Life in Their Nostrils…” Metaphorical Allusions to Life-Giving Plants in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images, presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Networks of Metaphors in the Ancient Near East”.
- 2017: partecipazione al convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 63 dal tema “Dealing with Antiquity: Past, Present & Future” (Philipps-Universität Marburg, 24–28 luglio), con un contributo dal titolo Fear and Superstition in the Northwest Palace of Aššurnaṣirpal II, presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Coping with and Preventing Collective Fear in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Material Culture”.
- 2017: partecipazione al convegno Broadening Horizons 5 dal tema “Civilizations in contact” (Università degli Studi di Udine, 5–8 giugno), con un contributo dal titolo Interaction between King and Foreigners: Visitors at the Assyrian Court of Sargon II, presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Imperial frontiers”.
- 2016: partecipazione al convegno ICAANE - International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 10 (Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie, Vienna, 25–29 aprile) con un contributo dal titolo Concealed Paternalism of the Assyrian King: which Audience? presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Images in Context: Agency, Audiences & Perception”.
- 2015: partecipazione al convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 61 dal tema “Text and Image” (Ginevra e Berna, 22–25 giugno), con un contributo dal titolo The Throne Room of Ashurnasirpal II: a Multisensory Experience, presentato nell’ambito del workshop “Visualizing Emotions and Senses in the Ancient Near East”.

Invito a convegni e lezioni

- 2022: lezione, su invito, dal titolo The Art of Etiquette: An Anthropological and Sociological Approach to Assyrian Artnell’ambito del ciclo di seminari organizzati da ARWA – The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia (7 ottobre).
- 2021: partecipazione, come relatore e su invito, al workshop dal tema “The Image of the Good Shepherd – Modes of Governance in Antiquity” (École biblique et archéologique française, Gerusalemme, 25–26 maggio). Titolo della relazione: “Producing” or “Imposing” Power in Ancient Assyria? The King Sargon II as Shepherd and Hunter.
- 2021: lezione, su invito, dal titolo Life at the Assyrian Court: Clichés, Audience, Etiquette, tenuto presso la Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (20 maggio).
- 2020: lezione, su invito, dal titolo L’Arte degli Assiri, tenuta presso l’Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, DISUM (20 Novembre).
- 2020: partecipazione, come relatore, al colloquium del gruppo di ricerca DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615–Rethinking Oriental Despotism, tenuto presso la Freie Universität Berlin (13 ottobre). Titolo della relazione: Despotic Kings or Dystopian Views? Representations of the Good Shepherd and Modes of Governance in the Times of Ashurnasirpal II, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal
- 2019: partecipazione, come relatore e su invito, alla Tavola Rotonda sul tema “The Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II: Architecture, Iconography, and Text” tenuta presso il Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia (26–27 agosto). Titolo della relazione: Images are forever: Assyrian Readings of the Nimrud Reliefs.
- 2018: partecipazione, come relatore e su invito, al colloquium internazionale “Homo Pictor. Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue” organizzato dal Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies presso la Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (28–30 giugno). Titolo della relazione: Archaeology of Images: Context and Intericonicity in Neo-Assyrian Art.
- 2017: lezione, su invito, dal titolo Archeologia in Iraq. Le capitali Assire fra costruzioni e distruzioni, tenuta presso il Centro Servizi Culturali di Ragusa (30 marzo) nell’ambito del programma “Attualità dell’archeologia” organizzato dall’Archeoclub d’Italia. 
- 2014: partecipazione, come relatore e su invito, al quarto incontro nazionale “La mente, archetipi e territorio: La Parola e l’Immagine” organizzato dall’Università degli studi di Messina (5–7 settembre). Titolo della relazione Se ascolto dimentico, se vedo ricordo, se faccio capisco: analisi sulle strategie di comunicazione in epoca Neo-Assira.

Organizzazione di convegni scientifici

- 2022: organizzazione della sessione Manners, Etiquette, and Protocols in the Ancient Near East (Virtual: October 19–23 /  Boston: November 16–19), nell’ambito del convegno ASOR- American Society of Overseas Research.
- 2020: organizzazione del workshop Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast: Rethinking the Terms Ideology and Propaganda (Francoforte sul Meno e Magonza, 20–24 luglio) nell’ambito del convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 66.
- 2019: organizzazione del workshop Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Images(Parigi, 8–12 luglio) nell’ambito del convegno RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 65. 

Competenze Linguistiche 

- Lingua madre: Italiano
- Inglese: C1 (IELTS-International English Language Testing System)
- Francese: A2
- Tedesco: A2.2
- Arabo: A1

Competenza informatiche

- ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence).

Pubblicazioni

Monografie
  1. 2020. Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace. marru 11. Münster: Zaphon. ISSN 2569-5851; ISBN 978-3-96327-134-2
Curatele
  1. 2022. Ancient Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast. Rethinking ideology and propaganda in the Ancient Near East. L. Portuese / M. Pallavidini (eds.). wEdge, Cutting-Edge Researches in Cuneiform Studies 2. Münster: Zaphon. ISBN 978-3-96327-186-1 (book); ISBN 978-3-96327-187-8 (e-book); ISSN 2698-7007.
  2. 2020. Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East. Pallavidini M. / L. Portuese (ed.). Philippika, Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 141. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISSN 1613-5628; ISBN 978-3-447-11437-0
Articoli e contributi in miscellanee
  1. 2023. The Assyrian Royal Banquet: A Sociological and Anthropological Approach. In: S. de Martino / E. Devecchi / C. Lippolis / V. Messina / M. Viano (eds.), Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Turin, July 12-16, 2021. dubsar. Münster: Zaphon (in lavorazione)
  2. 2023. Worshipping Divine Statues in Ancient Assyria: Protocol, Emotions, and Etiquette. In: L. Verderame / M. Ceravolo (eds.): Statue nel Vicino Oriente antico. Henoch (in lavorazione).
  3. 2022. Images are forever: Assyrian Readings of the Nimrud Reliefs. In: Howard C. (ed.), The Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II: Architecture, Iconography, and Text. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (in corso di stampa).
  4. 2022. From an Object to a Thing: Immaterial Materialities in the Neo-Assyrian Realm. In: Di Paolo S. (ed.), The Look of Things in the Ancient Near East. Moving from Surface toward Depth and Back Again. Cambridge Publishing Group (in corso di stampa).
  5. 2022. Doorway Creatures: Crises, Ideologies and Persuasion in the Neo-Assyrian Palace. In: L. Portuese / M. Pallavidini (eds.), Ancient Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast. Rethinking ideology and propaganda in the Ancient Near East: 163–182. wEdge, Cutting-Edge Researches in Cuneiform Studies 2. Münster: Zaphon. ISBN 978-3-96327-186-1 (book); ISBN 978-3-96327-187-8 (e-book); ISSN 2698-7007.
  6. 2021. GALATEO. A New Project Paving the Way for the Study of Manners and Etiquette in the Ancient Near East. Oriens Antiquus, Series Nova 3: 129–144. ISSN: 0030-5189
  7. 2021. Fear, Concern and Care in the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II. In: S. Kipfer / E. Wagner-Durand (eds.), Coping with and Preventing Collective Fear in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Material Culture. Die Welt des Orients 51/1. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 28–57. ISSN: 0172–5505.
  8. 2020. Under His Majesty’s Protection: Orientational Metaphors in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images. Eikón Imago 15: 551–569 ISSN: 2254-8718 4
  9. 2020. Towards a (Neuro-)Psychology of Art: Cues for Attention in Mesopotamian Art. Ash Sharq, Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies 4: 157–186. ISSN: 2513-8529
  10. 2020. The Genies of the Northwest Palace of Assurnasirpal II. Ash Sharq, Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies 4: 253–276. ISSN: 2513-8529
  11. 2020. The Decoration of the Southwest Wall of Façade n at Dur-Sharrukin: Adjustments and Significance. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2: 160–162. ISSN 0989-5671
  12. 2020. Live and Let Live Images. Metaphor and Interpictoriality in Neo-Assyrian Art. In: M. Pallavidini M. / Portuese L. (eds.): Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East: 111–135. Philippika 141. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISSN 1613-5628; ISBN 978-3-447-11437-0
  13. 2020. Interaction between King and Foreigners: Visitors at the Assyrian Court of Sargon II. In: K. Gavagnin / R. Palermo (eds.): Imperial Connections. Interactions and Expansion from Assyria to the Roman Period. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5–8 June 2017): 125–142. West & East IV, Monografie, 3. ISBN 978-88-5511-145-4
  14. 2020. Archaeology of Images: Context and Intericonicity in Neo-Assyrian Art. In: J. Bracker (ed.), Homo Pictor. Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue: 127–157. Freiburger Studien zur Archäologie und visuellen Kultur 2. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. ISBN 978-3-948465-78-0
  15. 2020. A Foucaultian View on the Modes of Governance in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: The Good Shepherd. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 23: 1–31. ISSN 1437-9074
  16. 2019. The Throne Room of Aššurnaṣirpal II: A Multisensory Experience. In A. Hawthorn / A.-C Rendu Loisel (ed.): Distant Impressions: The Senses in the Near East: 63–92. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns ISBN: 978-1-57506-967-8
  17. 2019. Imago imaginis. Per uno studio delle incisioni di Assurnasirpal II a Kalhu. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 22: 153–165. ISSN 1437-9074
  18. 2018. Metaphorical Allusions to Life-Giving Plants in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images. Antiguo Oriente 16: 93–116. ISSN: 1667-9202
  19. 2017. Concealed Paternalism of the Assyrian King: Which Audience? Mesopotamia LII: 111–128. ISSN: 0076-6615
  20. 2017. A New Hypothesis Regarding the Use of Formulae in the Ashurnasirpal II Texts. Studi Classici e Orientali LXIII: 29–42. ISSN: 0081-6124
  21. 2016. ‘Merciful’ Messages in the Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II: The Land of Suḫu. Egitto e Vicino Oriente XXXIX: 179–199. ISSN 0392-6885
  22. 2014. Alcune ipotesi sulla ‘Stele del Banchetto’ di Assurnasirpal II. Studi Classici e Orientali LX: 9–20. ISSN: 0081-6124

Attività accademiche e extra-accademiche

- 2021–a oggi: membro della American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- 2020–a oggi: membro della International Association for Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia (ARWA)
- 2018–a oggi: membro della International Association for Assyriology (IAA)
- 2018–a oggi: membro della Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

    Curriculum

    Current Position

    - 04/2022: Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East (L-OR/05) at the Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DiCAM) of the Università degli Studi di Messina. 
    - 06/2021-today: Visiting Scholar at the Department of History of Art of the University of Pennsylvania.

    Professional Experience

    - 06/2021-03/2022. Research fellow of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East (L-OR/05) at the Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DiCAM) of Università degli Studi di Messina, within the research programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Global Fellowship, with the project GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups; grant agreement No 101027543).
    - 10/2020–05/2021. Postdoctoral researcher at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)–PSL Université Paris, within the research unit UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, textes, archéologie, histoire, with a project on Rethinking the Neo-Assyrian Memes: An Examination of the Western-Centric Treatment of the Self-Representation of the Assyrian King.
    - 10/2020–05/2021. Teaching assistant of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche (DISUM) of Università degli Studi di Catania.
    - 06/2020–11/2020. Research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, within the DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615–Rethinking Oriental Despotism, with a project on Despotic Kings or Dystopian Views? Representations of the Good Shepherd and Modes of Governance in the Times of Ashurnasirpal II, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal.

    Education

    - 2021. National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor (Italian Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale), academic recruitment field 10/N1 – Ancient Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and African Cultures; academic discipline L-OR/05 – Ancient Near East, Archaeology and Art History.
    - 2019. PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie. Dissertation title: “The Audience of the Neo-Assyrian Ideology: Studies in the Access to the Royal Palaces of Ashurnasirpal II and Sargon II according to Archaeological, Visual, and Textual Sources” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz; Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Janoscha Kreppner). Grade Summa Cum Laude.
    - 2012. MA in Archaeology, specialising in Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology, Università degli Studi di Pisa. Dissertation title: “Testo e immagine nei monumenti pubblici neoassiri” (Supervisor: Prof. Stefania Mazzoni; Second Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Del Monte). Grade 110/110 cum laude.
    - 2009. BA in Cultural Heritage Science, specialising in Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology, Università degli Studi di Pisa. Dissertation title: “Stele e rilievi rupestri neo-assiri: espressione della regalità nella periferia settentrionale e occidentale dell’impero” (Supervisor: Dr. Candida Felli).
    - 2005. Liceo scientifico “Q. Cataudella”, Scicli (RG). School-leaving certificate.

    Fellowships, prizes, scholarships & awards

    - 2021. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Global Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) for a research project entitled “GALATEO”- Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups (grant agreement No 101027543), to be carried out at the Università degli Studi di Messina and the University of Pennsylvania.
    - 2019. IAA Fund for Recent PhDs for Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Attendance 
    - 2014. Six-month scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), for a research stay at the Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie), with a project on Neo-Assyrian communication strategies during Assurbanipal’s reign.
    - 2010. Two-month scholarship (March-April) for Italian students from Università degli Studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico, to attend lectures at the University of Aden (Yemen).

    Excavations

    - 2020. Member of the archaeological excavation at Qasr Shemamok, Kurdistan, Iraq.
    - 2011. Member of the archaeological excavation at Khor Rori, Oman.
    - 2009. Member of the archaeological excavation at Tell Afis, Syria.
    - 2008. Member of the archaeological excavation at San Gaetano di Vada (Livorno), Italy.
    - 2007. Member of the archaeological survey at Ager Firmanus (Fermo), Italy.

    Teaching Activity

    - 2021. A semester course on The Assyrian Palace: Art, Court Life, Tradition, Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche.

    Languages

    - Mother tongue: Italian
    - English: C1 (IELTS-International English Language Testing System)
    - German: A2
    - French: A2
    - Arabic: A1

    Computer Skills and Competences

    - ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence).

    Peer-reviewed international conference papers

    - 2022: 66th RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on “Cultural Contact – Cultures of Contact (Kultur–Kontakt–Kultur).” (Goethe University Frankfurt e Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 25–29 July). Conference paper: Appropriation and Re-Instrumentalization of Visual Motifs in Syro-Hittite and Assyrian Monumental Art: Nonverbal Expressions as Signs of Collective Identity.
    - 2022: 5th GeMANE- Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (Helsinki, 1–3 June). Conference paper: A Divine Love Affair in the Royal Garden: Etiquette and Morality of the Assyrian Queen.
    - 2021. American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) annual meeting (Chicago, November 17-20). Conference paper: A Gender Perspective on Manners and Etiquette in Ancient Assyria. Session: Gender in the Ancient Near East.
    - 2021. 67th RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on “Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East” (Università degli Studi di Torino, July 12-16). Conference paper: Table Manners and Etiquette in Assyria: A Sociological and Anthropological Approach.
    - 2020. 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) (Università degli Studi di Bologna, April 14-18). Conference paper: Under His Majesty’s Protection: Orientational Metaphors in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images. Workshop: Cognitive archaeology. Reading symbolic and visual communication networks and structures.
    - 2019. Broadening Horizons 6 (Freie Universität Berlin, June 24-28) on “Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times and Spaces in Dialogue”. Conference paper: Live and Let Live Images. Metaphor and Interpictoriality in Neo-Assyrian Art. Session: Visual and Textual Forms of Communication.
    - 2019. 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) (Paris, July 8-12) on “Gods, Kings and Capitals in the Ancient Near East”. Conference paper: The Wordless Metaphor in Neo-Assyrian Art: Context and Perception. Workshop: Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Images.
    - 2019. 2nd meeting of “Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico” (Sapienza Università degli Studi di Roma, February 21-22) on “Spazio umano e spazio divino: pensare e gestire la spazialità nel Vicino Oriente antico”. Conference paper: Imago imaginis. Le incisioni nei bassorilievi di Assurnasirpal II a Kalhu. 
    - 2018. EABS European Association of Biblical Studies and Society of Biblical Literature, annual conference (Helsinki, 30 July-3 August). Conference paper: “And He Placed the Plant of Life in Their Nostrils…” Metaphorical Allusions to Life-Giving Plants in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images. Research Unit: Metaphor in the Bible. Workshop: Networks of Metaphors in the Ancient Near East.
    - 2017. Broadening Horizons 5 (Università degli Studi di Udine, June 5-8) on “Civilizations in Contact”. Conference paper: Interaction between King and Foreigners: Visitors at the Assyrian Court of Sargon II. Session: Imperial frontiers.
    - 2017. 63rd RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Philipps-Universität Marburg, July 24-28) on “Dealing with Antiquity: Past, Present & Future”. Conference paper: Fear and Superstition in the Northwest Palace of Aššurnaṣirpal II. Workshop: Coping with and Preventing Collective Fear in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Material Culture.
    - 2016. 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) (OREA, Vienna, April 25-29 April). Conference paper: Concealed Paternalism of the Assyrian King: Which Audience? Workshop: Images in Context: Agency, Audiences & Perception.
    - 2015. 61st RAI-Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Geneva and Bern, June 22-25) on “Text and Image”. Conference paper: The Throne Room of Ashurnasirpal II: a Multisensory Experience. Workshop: “Visualizing Emotions and Senses in the Ancient Near East”.

    Invited Conference Papers

    - 2020. Workshop “The Image of the Good Shepherd – Modes of Governance in Antiquity” (École biblique et archéologique française, Jerusalem, June 15-17). Conference paper: “Pastoral” or “Imposed” Power in Ancient Assyria? The King Sargon II as Shepherd and Hunter. 
    - 2019. Symposium “The Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II: Architecture, Iconography, and Text” (Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, August 26-27). Conference paper: Images are forever: Assyrian Readings of the Nimrud Reliefs.
    - 2018. International colloquium “Homo Pictor. Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue” (FRIAS, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, June 28-30). Conference paper: Archaeology of Images: Context and Intericonicity in Neo-Assyrian Art.
    - 2017. Attualità dell’archeologia, Archeoclub d’Italia (Ragusa, March 30). Conference paper: Archeologia in Iraq. Le capitali Assire fra costruzioni e distruzioni.
    - 2014. 4th meeting “La mente, archetipi e territorio: La Parola e l’Immagine” (Università degli Studi di Messina, September 5-7). Conference paper: Se ascolto dimentico, se vedo ricordo, se faccio capisco: analisi sulle strategie di comunicazione in epoca Neo-Assira. 

    Invited Lectures

    - 2020: Despotic Kings or Dystopian Views? Representations of the Good Shepherd and Modes of Governance in the Times of Ashurnasirpal II, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal, lecture series organized by the DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615–Rethinking Oriental Despotism, Freie Universität Berlin (October 13). 
    - 2022. The Art of Etiquette: An Anthropological and Sociological Approach to Assyrian Art, The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia (October 7). Lecture series: And what about Art? Investigating Visual Forms in the Cultural Practice of Ancient Western Asia.
    - 2021. Current Research on the Late Assyrian Empire: A View on the Court Life, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (July 1).
    - 2020. L’Arte degli Assiri, Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche (November 20).

    Organisation of international conferences

    - 2021. Manners, Etiquette, and Protocols in the Ancient Near East, ASOR- American Society of Overseas Research (Virtual: October 19–23 / Boston: November 16–19)
    - 2020. Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast: Rethinking the Terms Ideology and Propaganda; 66th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) (Frankfurt am Main & Mainz, July 20-24).
    - 2019. Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Images; 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) (Paris, July 8-12). 

    Publications
     
    Monographs
    1. 2020. Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace. marru, Studien zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 11. Münster: Zaphon. ISBN 978-3-96327-134-2; ISSN 2569-5851 (hardcover) xviii + 330 pp. with 49 figures
    Edited books
    1. 2022. Ancient Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast. Rethinking ideology and propaganda in the Ancient Near East. L. Portuese / M. Pallavidini (eds.). wEdge, Cutting-Edge Researches in Cuneiform Studies 2. Münster: Zaphon. ISBN 978-3-96327-186-1 (book); ISBN 978-3-96327-187-8 (e-book); ISSN 2698-7007.
    2. 2020. Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East. Pallavidini M. / L. Portuese (ed.). Philippika, Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 141. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISSN 1613-5628; ISBN 978-3-447-11437-0
    Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, peer-reviewed conference proceedings and/or monograph
    1. 2023. The Assyrian Royal Banquet: A Sociological and Anthropological Approach. In: S. de Martino / E. Devecchi / C. Lippolis / V. Messina / M. Viano (eds.), Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Turin, July 12-16, 2021. dubsar. Münster: Zaphon (in lavorazione)
    2. 2023. Worshipping Divine Statues in Ancient Assyria: Protocol, Emotions, and Etiquette. In: L. Verderame / M. Ceravolo (eds.): Statue nel Vicino Oriente antico. Henoch (in lavorazione).
    3. 2022. Images are forever: Assyrian Readings of the Nimrud Reliefs. In: Howard C. (ed.), The Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II: Architecture, Iconography, and Text. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (in corso di stampa).
    4. 2022. From an Object to a Thing: Immaterial Materialities in the Neo-Assyrian Realm. In: Di Paolo S. (ed.), The Look of Things in the Ancient Near East. Moving from Surface toward Depth and Back Again. Cambridge Publishing Group (in corso di stampa).
    5. 2022. Doorway Creatures: Crises, Ideologies and Persuasion in the Neo-Assyrian Palace. In: L. Portuese / M. Pallavidini (eds.), Ancient Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast. Rethinking ideology and propaganda in the Ancient Near East: 163–182. wEdge, Cutting-Edge Researches in Cuneiform Studies 2. Münster: Zaphon. ISBN 978-3-96327-186-1 (book); ISBN 978-3-96327-187-8 (e-book); ISSN 2698-7007.
    6. 2021. GALATEO. A New Project Paving the Way for the Study of Manners and Etiquette in the Ancient Near East. Oriens Antiquus, Series Nova 3: 129–144. ISSN: 0030-5189
    7. 2021. Fear, Concern and Care in the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II. In: S. Kipfer / E. Wagner-Durand (eds.), Coping with and Preventing Collective Fear in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives from Texts and Material Culture. Die Welt des Orients 51/1. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 28–57. ISSN: 0172–5505.
    8. 2020. Under His Majesty’s Protection: Orientational Metaphors in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images. Eikón Imago 15: 551–569 ISSN: 2254-8718 4
    9. 2020. Towards a (Neuro-)Psychology of Art: Cues for Attention in Mesopotamian Art. Ash Sharq, Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies 4: 157–186. ISSN: 2513-8529
    10. 2020. The Genies of the Northwest Palace of Assurnasirpal II. Ash Sharq, Bulletin of the Ancient Near East: Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies 4: 253–276. ISSN: 2513-8529
    11. 2020. The Decoration of the Southwest Wall of Façade n at Dur-Sharrukin: Adjustments and Significance. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2: 160–162. ISSN 0989-5671
    12. 2020. Live and Let Live Images. Metaphor and Interpictoriality in Neo-Assyrian Art. In: M. Pallavidini M. / Portuese L. (eds.): Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East: 111–135. Philippika 141. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISSN 1613-5628; ISBN 978-3-447-11437-0
    13. 2020. Interaction between King and Foreigners: Visitors at the Assyrian Court of Sargon II. In: K. Gavagnin / R. Palermo (eds.): Imperial Connections. Interactions and Expansion from Assyria to the Roman Period. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5–8 June 2017): 125–142. West & East IV, Monografie, 3. ISBN 978-88-5511-145-4
    14. 2020. Archaeology of Images: Context and Intericonicity in Neo-Assyrian Art. In: J. Bracker (ed.), Homo Pictor. Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue: 127–157. Freiburger Studien zur Archäologie und visuellen Kultur 2. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. ISBN 978-3-948465-78-0
    15. 2020. A Foucaultian View on the Modes of Governance in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: The Good Shepherd. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 23: 1–31. ISSN 1437-9074
    16. 2019. The Throne Room of Aššurnaṣirpal II: A Multisensory Experience. In A. Hawthorn / A.-C Rendu Loisel (ed.): Distant Impressions: The Senses in the Near East: 63–92. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns ISBN: 978-1-57506-967-8
    17. 2019. Imago imaginis. Per uno studio delle incisioni di Assurnasirpal II a Kalhu. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 22: 153–165. ISSN 1437-9074
    18. 2018. Metaphorical Allusions to Life-Giving Plants in Neo-Assyrian Texts and Images. Antiguo Oriente 16: 93–116. ISSN: 1667-9202
    19. 2017. Concealed Paternalism of the Assyrian King: Which Audience? Mesopotamia LII: 111–128. ISSN: 0076-6615
    20. 2017. A New Hypothesis Regarding the Use of Formulae in the Ashurnasirpal II Texts. Studi Classici e Orientali LXIII: 29–42. ISSN: 0081-6124
    21. 2016. ‘Merciful’ Messages in the Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II: The Land of Suḫu. Egitto e Vicino Oriente XXXIX: 179–199. ISSN 0392-6885
    22. 2014. Alcune ipotesi sulla ‘Stele del Banchetto’ di Assurnasirpal II. Studi Classici e Orientali LX: 9–20. ISSN: 0081-6124
     
    Membership

    - ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research)
    - IAA (International Association for Assyriology)
    - SBL (Society of Biblical Literature)
    - ARWA (Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia)

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