Adriano Orsingher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1145237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriano Orsingher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriano |
| FAMILY NAME | Orsingher |
| SIGNATURE | ORSINGHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2380-9238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Phoenicians Among Others
Scents of Home
Olfactory cultures shape how societies perceive, value, and use scents in daily life, ritual, and social practice, embedding specific smells within collective identity. Mobility exposes these cultures to new environments, where scents may act as markers of heritage and belonging for migrants while also prompting diverse reactions—ranging from appreciation to disruption—within host or newly established communities. The Iron Age Mediterranean, mark…
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (1940-2024)
Congreso en Prehistoria Reciente y Protohistoria
Architecture and Afterlife
The miniaturization of architecture in past and modern societies is a cross-cultural phenomenon, which has received enormous attention in scholarship, particularly in works relating to the Bronze and Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. This article focuses on some small-scale terracotta buildings known from Phoenicia around the seventh to the sixth centuries BCE, argues for their identification as portable shrines, compares them to similar examples f…
Subsistence practices in Phoenicia and beyond
Agricultural practices in Iron Age Phoenicia are an understudied field of research. The most recently excavated faunal evidence from Tell el-Burak, a coastal agricultural domain linked to either Sidon or Sarepta, will increase our understanding of this topic. This paper provides the first diachronic and detailed analysis of the Late Iron Age and Persian period faunal data from Tell el-Burak, and investigates the subsistence practices of its peopl…
Disease, demons and masks in the Iron Age Mediterranean
This article first addresses the issue of defining ancient masks and briefly explores masking cultures in the Iron Age Mediterranean, then emphasizes the role that Carthage appears to have played in both maintaining and renewing the Levantine disguised traditions. Among the newly invented masks of Carthage, it focuses on and reviews a small group of masks and amulets portraying black African twisted faces and dating to between the seventh and mid…
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine
Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in Lebanon. Its remarkable state of preservation enables a systematic study of its plaster to be made as well as a comparison with two other plastered installations at the site. Archaeometric analyses offer new data concerning the comp…
Across Traditions and beyond Boundaries
A mask from Carthage and elusive gods
Although known from the early 1870s and its uniqueness remarked upon, a mask from Carthage has been only marginally considered in Phoenician and Punic studies. This masterpiece is usually interpreted as a male portrait of the 4th century BC. However, on the basis of a personal examination and after an in-depth analysis, I suggest a revised reading of the mask. I argue for a dating between the mid-7th and the early 6th century BC and, conversely, …
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine
Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in Lebanon. Its remarkable state of preservation enables a systematic study of its plaster to be made as well as a comparison with two other plastered installations at the site. Archaeometric analyses offer new data concerning the comp…
A mask from Carthage and elusive gods
Although known from the early 1870s and its uniqueness remarked upon, a mask from Carthage has been only marginally considered in Phoenician and Punic studies. This masterpiece is usually interpreted as a male portrait of the 4th century BC. However, on the basis of a personal examination and after an in-depth analysis, I suggest a revised reading of the mask. I argue for a dating between the mid-7th and the early 6th century BC and, conversely, …
A mask from Carthage and elusive gods
Although known from the early 1870s and its uniqueness remarked upon, a mask from Carthage has been only marginally considered in Phoenician and Punic studies. This masterpiece is usually interpreted as a male portrait of the 4th century BC. However, on the basis of a personal examination and after an in-depth analysis, I suggest a revised reading of the mask. I argue for a dating between the mid-7th and the early 6th century BC and, conversely, …
Across Traditions and beyond Boundaries
Disease, demons and masks in the Iron Age Mediterranean
This article first addresses the issue of defining ancient masks and briefly explores masking cultures in the Iron Age Mediterranean, then emphasizes the role that Carthage appears to have played in both maintaining and renewing the Levantine disguised traditions. Among the newly invented masks of Carthage, it focuses on and reviews a small group of masks and amulets portraying black African twisted faces and dating to between the seventh and mid…
Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine
Despite the importance of wine in the Iron Age Mediterranean, known structures associated with its production are rare. Recent excavations at Phoenician Tell el-Burak have now revealed the first Iron Age wine press in Lebanon. Its remarkable state of preservation enables a systematic study of its plaster to be made as well as a comparison with two other plastered installations at the site. Archaeometric analyses offer new data concerning the comp…
Subsistence practices in Phoenicia and beyond
Agricultural practices in Iron Age Phoenicia are an understudied field of research. The most recently excavated faunal evidence from Tell el-Burak, a coastal agricultural domain linked to either Sidon or Sarepta, will increase our understanding of this topic. This paper provides the first diachronic and detailed analysis of the Late Iron Age and Persian period faunal data from Tell el-Burak, and investigates the subsistence practices of its peopl…
Architecture and Afterlife
The miniaturization of architecture in past and modern societies is a cross-cultural phenomenon, which has received enormous attention in scholarship, particularly in works relating to the Bronze and Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. This article focuses on some small-scale terracotta buildings known from Phoenicia around the seventh to the sixth centuries BCE, argues for their identification as portable shrines, compares them to similar examples f…
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (1940-2024)
Congreso en Prehistoria Reciente y Protohistoria
Phoenicians Among Others
Scents of Home
Olfactory cultures shape how societies perceive, value, and use scents in daily life, ritual, and social practice, embedding specific smells within collective identity. Mobility exposes these cultures to new environments, where scents may act as markers of heritage and belonging for migrants while also prompting diverse reactions—ranging from appreciation to disruption—within host or newly established communities. The Iron Age Mediterranean, mark…
Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Phoenician (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)