Lorenzo D’alfonso
Biographic Data
| ID | 154353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo D’alfonso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | D’alfonso |
| SIGNATURE | D’ALFONSO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9163-3417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE)
New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transit…
Resilience Theory, Human Agency, and Political Archaeology
Over the last twenty years, due to the growing concern with the human-environment relationship in the contemporary world as well as in the study of the ancient world, Resilience Theory (RT) has been adopted and adapted from the study of ecosystems to the study of stress dynamics within socio-political systems. The adaptation is indebted to the seminal work of Holling and Gunderson (2002. “Resilience and Adaptive Cycles.” In Panarchy: Understandin…
Porsuk – Zeyve Höyük
Regional exchange and exclusive elite rituals in Iron Age central Anatolia
Alişar-IV ware is one of the most characteristic ceramic productions of early first-millennium BC central Anatolia and the only one characterised by painted figurative motifs besides geometric decorations. The ongoing excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük have uncovered a collection of fragments belonging to 42 Alişar-IV vessels, and this systematic material study of these sherds contributes much to understanding aspects of their production, use and c…
Borders in Archaeology
Borders in Archaeology
From ancient construction, through survival, towards modern conservation
Niğde Kınık Höyük
The occupation sequence of the first millennium BCE at Niğde Kınık Höyük (Turkey), provides new insights into the early history of the southern Anatolian Plateau. From around 1000 BCE, the site is characterized by a full-fledged urban layout, indicating a previously unattested sociopolitical complexity on the plateau that stems from a reorganization of Hittite and local traditions. During the second half of the first millennium BCE, the site was …
War in Anatolia in the Post-Hittite Period
This article presents a new transcription and translation of the TOPADA inscription. According to the new interpretation, the inscription narrates the events of a four-year-long war between a western coalition led by an unnamed Phrygian king and a coalition of post-Hittite rulers from south-central Anatolia, led by Great King Wasusarma. The careful study of paleography, scribal practice, script development, and literary aspects yields a dating of…
The Paleography of Anatolian Hieroglyphic Stone Inscriptions
The present article seeks to provide an overview of aims, problems, and possible lines of inquiry as suggested by the thorough investigation of one of the Anatolian hieroglyphic signs *439 (wa/i), one of the most frequent signs, and one characterized by paleographic variants. The paper defines the chronological and geographic distribution of the variants, thus offering it as a new criterion for the dating and provenience of Anatolian hieroglyphic…
A New Anatolian Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Dağılbaz Höyük, Bay of İskenderun, Turkey
A Hittite seal from Kavuşan Höyük
A Hittite seal was found recently in a cinerary urn, as a grave-good of a child, in the Iron Age cremation cemetery at Kavuşan Höyük, in the upper Tigris region. This article attempts to read the inscription on the seal and to discuss its date and place of production. The reading of the name of the owner of the seal, written in Anatolian Hieroglyphic, remains problematic because of the uncertainty of the phonetic value of sign *177. Tentatively, …
Niğde Kınık Höyük
The occupation sequence of the first millennium BCE at Niğde Kınık Höyük (Turkey), provides new insights into the early history of the southern Anatolian Plateau. From around 1000 BCE, the site is characterized by a full-fledged urban layout, indicating a previously unattested sociopolitical complexity on the plateau that stems from a reorganization of Hittite and local traditions. During the second half of the first millennium BCE, the site was …
Regional exchange and exclusive elite rituals in Iron Age central Anatolia
Alişar-IV ware is one of the most characteristic ceramic productions of early first-millennium BC central Anatolia and the only one characterised by painted figurative motifs besides geometric decorations. The ongoing excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük have uncovered a collection of fragments belonging to 42 Alişar-IV vessels, and this systematic material study of these sherds contributes much to understanding aspects of their production, use and c…
From ancient construction, through survival, towards modern conservation
The Paleography of Anatolian Hieroglyphic Stone Inscriptions
The present article seeks to provide an overview of aims, problems, and possible lines of inquiry as suggested by the thorough investigation of one of the Anatolian hieroglyphic signs *439 (wa/i), one of the most frequent signs, and one characterized by paleographic variants. The paper defines the chronological and geographic distribution of the variants, thus offering it as a new criterion for the dating and provenience of Anatolian hieroglyphic…
A New Anatolian Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Dağılbaz Höyük, Bay of İskenderun, Turkey
A Hittite seal from Kavuşan Höyük
A Hittite seal was found recently in a cinerary urn, as a grave-good of a child, in the Iron Age cremation cemetery at Kavuşan Höyük, in the upper Tigris region. This article attempts to read the inscription on the seal and to discuss its date and place of production. The reading of the name of the owner of the seal, written in Anatolian Hieroglyphic, remains problematic because of the uncertainty of the phonetic value of sign *177. Tentatively, …
A New Anatolian Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Dağılbaz Höyük, Bay of İskenderun, Turkey
The Paleography of Anatolian Hieroglyphic Stone Inscriptions
The present article seeks to provide an overview of aims, problems, and possible lines of inquiry as suggested by the thorough investigation of one of the Anatolian hieroglyphic signs *439 (wa/i), one of the most frequent signs, and one characterized by paleographic variants. The paper defines the chronological and geographic distribution of the variants, thus offering it as a new criterion for the dating and provenience of Anatolian hieroglyphic…
War in Anatolia in the Post-Hittite Period
This article presents a new transcription and translation of the TOPADA inscription. According to the new interpretation, the inscription narrates the events of a four-year-long war between a western coalition led by an unnamed Phrygian king and a coalition of post-Hittite rulers from south-central Anatolia, led by Great King Wasusarma. The careful study of paleography, scribal practice, script development, and literary aspects yields a dating of…
Niğde Kınık Höyük
The occupation sequence of the first millennium BCE at Niğde Kınık Höyük (Turkey), provides new insights into the early history of the southern Anatolian Plateau. From around 1000 BCE, the site is characterized by a full-fledged urban layout, indicating a previously unattested sociopolitical complexity on the plateau that stems from a reorganization of Hittite and local traditions. During the second half of the first millennium BCE, the site was …
Borders in Archaeology
Borders in Archaeology
From ancient construction, through survival, towards modern conservation
Regional exchange and exclusive elite rituals in Iron Age central Anatolia
Alişar-IV ware is one of the most characteristic ceramic productions of early first-millennium BC central Anatolia and the only one characterised by painted figurative motifs besides geometric decorations. The ongoing excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük have uncovered a collection of fragments belonging to 42 Alişar-IV vessels, and this systematic material study of these sherds contributes much to understanding aspects of their production, use and c…
Porsuk – Zeyve Höyük
Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE)
New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transit…
Resilience Theory, Human Agency, and Political Archaeology
Over the last twenty years, due to the growing concern with the human-environment relationship in the contemporary world as well as in the study of the ancient world, Resilience Theory (RT) has been adopted and adapted from the study of ecosystems to the study of stress dynamics within socio-political systems. The adaptation is indebted to the seminal work of Holling and Gunderson (2002. “Resilience and Adaptive Cycles.” In Panarchy: Understandin…
Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Ancient Near East History (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (3 works)