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L Nigro

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ID33545
NAMEL Nigro
GIVEN NAMESL
FAMILY NAMENigro
SIGNATURENIGRO L
AFFILIATIONSSapienza University of Rome
ORCID0000-0003-3262-315X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4
  • Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE

    Open Access•Nicola Laneri, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Open Archaeology•2025•References: 10

    Research on how forms of religiosity are produced through the interaction of local, exogenous, and hybrid elements is fundamental for the improvement of religious studies. This becomes particularly noteworthy in the context of the Levant during the Second Millennium BCE when cultural hybridization phenomena played a pivotal role in shaping novel religious beliefs. Such an exploration, in fact, opens up avenues in the process that ultimately led t…

  • Caress the pharaoh. The tactile reproduction of Ramses II's “mummy” in the Sapienza University Museum of the Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Heritage•2024•Cited by: 1

    The goal of the project accounted in the present article was to produce a perfect replica of the “mummy” of Pharaoh Ramses II with organic and sustainable materials and to let it be displayed without a showcase and even touched by visitors in a museum. The replica was produced by an integrated team of experts through 3D modeling and handcraft. The “mummy” was the core of the exhibition entitled “The mummy of Ramses. The immortal pharaoh” visited …

  • Isolation of carbonatogenic bacteria for biorestoration

    Open Access•Francesca Benedetti, Matilde Kratter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Heritage•2023

  • Motya, the Rise of a Port-City: Demography and Colonial Models in Comparison

    L Nigro•CHAPTER•Comparing Greek Colonies•2022

  • Carbonatogenic bacteria on the 'Motya Charioteer' sculpture

    Open Access•L Nigro, Francesco Mura et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Heritage•2022•References: 58

  • The sacred pool of Ba'al: A reinterpretation of the 'Kothon' at Motya

    Open Access•L Nigro•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2022•References: 13

    The Phoenician island-city of Motya, off the west coast of Sicily, has long been a focus of archaeological research. Earlier excavations identified a large rectangular basin interpreted, by analogy with Carthage, as a 'kothon' or artificial inner harbour. Recent investigations of this feature, however, lead the author to a new interpretation. Rather than a harbour, the so-called 'Kothon' is revealed as a sacred freshwater pool at the centre of a …

  • Cartagine: La Città E Le Necropolirapporto Preliminare Sullaprima Campagna Di Scavi (2021)dell’institut National Du Patrimoinee Dell’università Di Roma «la Sapienza»

    Open Access•L Nigro, Federico Cappella et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2021

    Dans le cadre de la coopération scientifique entre l’Institut National du Patrimoine et l’Université de Rome « La Sapienza », une première campagne de fouille a eu lieu dans un secteur de la nécropole punique de Dermech à Carthage, dans l’enceinte du parc des thermes d’Antonin et aux abords de la colline de Borj-Jedid, du 17 octobre au 10 novembre 2021.Sous les vestiges romains et byzantins, neuf tombes –à fosse et à chambre unique avec puits d’a…

  • Grapes and vines of the Phoenicians: Morphometric analyses of pips from modern varieties and Iron Age archaeological sites in the Western Mediterranean

    Open Access•Claudia Moricca, L Bouby et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021•References: 27

  • Exploring the chemical composition and corrosion patterns of arrowheads used in the Siege of Motya (397 BC) through a multi-analytical approach

    Open Access•Martina Bernabale, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Heritage•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 3

  • Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit

    Open Access•Claudia Moricca, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Vegetation History and…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    The present study concerns the Phoenician-Punic site of Motya, a small island set in Western Sicily (Italy), in the Marsala Lagoon (Stagnone di Marsala), between Trapani and Marsala. A big disposal pit, datable to between the first half of the 8th and the mid-6th century bc , was identified in Area D. This context was sampled for plant macro-remains through bucket flotation. Palynological treatment and analysis were also performed on soil samples…

  • A Sardinian Early 1st Millennium Bc Bronze Axe From Motya

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2020

    An Iron Age bronze axe was found in Motya (Sicily, Italy)in a prehistoric layer dating from the 10thcentury BC underneath the 4thcentury BC patrician residency known as “Casa dei mosaici”. The axe belongs to the double-looped socketed typewell known in central Mediterranean in the time span 1200-900 BC, and it is comparable with some coeval Sardinian specimens.The bronze has been characterised using the backscattering electron signal of a SEM (Sc…

  • An Egyptian Green Schistpaletteand an Amazonite Gemstonefrom the “Palace of the Copper Axes” at Batrawy, Jordan

    Open Access•L Nigro, Elisabetta Gallo et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2020

    The exploration of the “Palace of the Copper Axes”, the Early Bronze Age III palace of the easternmost city of Southern Levant during the 3rdmillennium BC,was resumedin 2018, during the 14thseason of excavation at Khirbet al-Batrawy in north-central Jordan, and completed in 2019. In the entrance hall of the palace,a square space with ceilings supported by four pillars, an Egyptian green schist palette, a cyan gemstone of amazoniteand a pierced be…

  • The Divine Spiritof Bees.A Note on Honey and the Origins of Yeast-Driven Fermentation

    Open Access•L Nigro, Teresa Rinaldi•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2020

    One of the earliest domesticated organisms is perhaps the eukaryote microorganism known as Saccharomycescerevisiae, or more simply “the yeast”. Its role in triggering fermentation as a process useful for agricultural products preservation and transformationinto food, though known from the Palaeolithicin the ancient Near East, became decisive in the Neolithic Period. The earliest agriculturalists of the Fertile Crescenttriggeredfermentationwith th…

  • Plant Assemblage of the Phoenician Sacrificial Pit by the Temple of Melqart/Herakles (Motya, Sicily, Italy)

    Claudia Moricca, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 16

    Archaeobotanical remains from the Phoenician – Punic site of Motya, set in the Marsala Lagoon in Western Sicily (Italy), were collected through flotation and sieving during the excavation campaigns of 2017–2019. Analyses focused on a sacrificial favissa, on the SW side of the Temple of Cappiddazzu, dedicated to Melqart/Herakles, where the buried remains of seven bovines were also found. Plant remains, preserved mostly by mineralisation, provide i…

  • Khalet AL-JAM‟A.A Bronze and Iron Ages Necropolis Near Bethlehem (Palestine): Results of the 2019 Archaeological Excavations

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2019

    In Spring 2019 the Italian-Palestinian joint team of Sapienza Universityof Romeand the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine Dept. of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage resumed rescue excavationsatthe Necropolis of Khalet al-Jam’a,2.2 Km south-east fromthe Church of Nativity inBethlehem. Workswerefocused on Tomb A7, identified in 2015, a huge underground burial place, dating back to theIron IIC(8th-7thcentury BC), but also including ear…

  • The Temple of Astarte “Aglaia” at Motya and Its Cultural Significance in the Mediterranean Realm

    Open Access•L Nigro•CHAPTER•Religious Convergence in the…•2019

    Recent excavations at Motya by the Sapienza University of Rome and the Sicil- ian Superintendence of Trapani have expanded our information on the Phoenician goddess Astarte, her sacred places, and her role in the Phoenician expansion to the West during the first half of the first millennium BCE. Two previously unknown religious buildings dedicated to this deity have been discovered and excavated in the last decade. The present article discusses t…

  • Qalet Hamra: A Mamluk Khan North of Zarqa, Jordan

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2019

    The site of Qalet Hamra was well known in Zarqa but it never attracted archaeologists and surveyors untila few years ago,possibly due to its location on a spur dominating the bifurcations between Wadi az-Zarqa and Wadi Shomar, a sort of shortcut leading straight ward to the west, in direction of the Jordan Valley.Moreover it was nearby a major ford across the river, which both banks were caravan tracks in antiquity. In 2015and 2018 Sapienza Unive…

  • Jericho and the Chronology of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age: A Radiometric Re-Assessment

    Open Access•L Nigro, Lucio Calcagnile et al.•ARTICLE•Radiocarbon•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 20

    The absolute chronology of Early Bronze Age in the Levant has been the object of a major revision (Regev et al. 2012a), which implied an increase of at least two centuries in respect of traditional chronology. Such a shift back was based upon two sites (Tel Yarmouth, Megiddo) which were the backbone of the “reform,” but actually do not offer complete sequences for the whole EBA. This was the weakest stone of the revision, together with a partial …

  • Da Gerico a Betlemme.LA Missione Della Sapienza a Gericoe L’archeologia Italiana in Palestina (1997-2017)con Il Contributo Del Ministero Degli Affari Esteri E Della Cooperazione Internazionale

    Open Access•L Nigro•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2018

    When after the Oslo and Madrid agreements the Palestinian National Authority was established it was also provided of a Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities – Dept. of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (MOTA-DACH). At that time, Sapienza University of Rome was chosen as ideal partner to start a new deal in the archaeology of Palestine. By contrast with an enduring colonial tradition, which foresaw a full demission of responsibility by means of the …

  • Pomegranate (Punica Granatum L.) From Motya and Its Deepest Oriental Roots

    Open Access•L Nigro, Federica Spagnoli•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2018

    Pomegranate remains and representations found in the Phoenician site of Motya in Western Sicily give the cue for a summary study of this plant and its fortune in the Near East and the Mediterranean. Fruits offered in wells, a terracotta relief depicting a pomegranate held by a goddess found in the Sacred Area of the Kothon at Motya, and, especially, a pottery vase in the shape of a pomegranate retrieved inside the Temple of Astarte in the same co…

  • D Scanning, Modelling and Printing of Ultra-Thin Nacreous Shells From Jericho: A Case Study of Small Finds Documentation in Archaeology

    Open Access•L Nigro, Luciano Fattore et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2018

    This paper springs out from a collaborative project jointly carried out by the FabLab Saperi&Coand the Museum of Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean of Sapienza University of Rome focused at producing replicas of ultra-thin archeological finds with a sub-millimetric precision. The main technological challenge of this project was to produce models through 3D optical scanning (photogrammetry) and to print faithful replicas with additive manufacturin…

  • A hoard of Nilotic nacreous shells from Egypt to Jericho (Early Bronze II, 3000–2800 BCE): Their finding, content and historical archaeological implications

    L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    The Tell es-Sultan, ancient Jericho, is amongst the earliest “cities” that rose in the Southern Levant between the end of 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. The site is being excavated, studied and rehabilitated for tourism by Sapienza University of Rome and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities since 1997. In 2017, during the 13th season of excavation, an unexpected discovery occurred: five Chambardia rubens shells ha…

  • Protecting and rehabilitating the archaeology of Bethlehem

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2018•References: 5

    and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities-Department of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage-have revealed four Bronze Age necropolises. These newly discovered sites illuminate

  • Landing on Motya.: The earliest Phoenician settlement of the 8th century BC and the creation of a West Phoenician cultural identity in the excavations of Rome «La Sapienza» University ‐ 2012‐2016

    L Nigro, Federica Spagnoli•BOOK•Landing on Motya•2017

  • Motya IV: Building up a West Phoenician colony

    L Nigro•CHAPTER•Landing on Motya•2017

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  • Cultic Activities in the Sacred Area of Ishtar at Ebla during the Old Syrian Period: The Favissae F.5327 and F.5238

    Nicolò Marchetti, Nicolo''Marchetti et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cuneiform Studies•1997•Cited by: 8

  • Tell es-Sultan 2015: A Pilot Project for Archaeology in Palestine

    L Nigro•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2016•Cited by: 7

    The eleventh season (April-June 2015) of the archaeological investigation and site protection as well as valorization of the site of Tell es-Sultan was carried out by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (under the direction of the present writer) and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities - Department of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (directed by Jehad Yasine) with the aims to: (1) re-examine several of the historical archaeolog…

  • Jericho and the Chronology of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age: A Radiometric Re-Assessment

    Open Access•L Nigro, Lucio Calcagnile et al.•ARTICLE•Radiocarbon•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 20

    The absolute chronology of Early Bronze Age in the Levant has been the object of a major revision (Regev et al. 2012a), which implied an increase of at least two centuries in respect of traditional chronology. Such a shift back was based upon two sites (Tel Yarmouth, Megiddo) which were the backbone of the “reform,” but actually do not offer complete sequences for the whole EBA. This was the weakest stone of the revision, together with a partial …

  • Cultural landscape and plant use at the Phoenician site of Motya (Western Sicily, Italy) inferred from a disposal pit

    Open Access•Claudia Moricca, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Vegetation History and…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    The present study concerns the Phoenician-Punic site of Motya, a small island set in Western Sicily (Italy), in the Marsala Lagoon (Stagnone di Marsala), between Trapani and Marsala. A big disposal pit, datable to between the first half of the 8th and the mid-6th century bc , was identified in Area D. This context was sampled for plant macro-remains through bucket flotation. Palynological treatment and analysis were also performed on soil samples…

  • Exploring the chemical composition and corrosion patterns of arrowheads used in the Siege of Motya (397 BC) through a multi-analytical approach

    Open Access•Martina Bernabale, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Heritage•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 3

  • Plant Assemblage of the Phoenician Sacrificial Pit by the Temple of Melqart/Herakles (Motya, Sicily, Italy)

    Claudia Moricca, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 16

    Archaeobotanical remains from the Phoenician – Punic site of Motya, set in the Marsala Lagoon in Western Sicily (Italy), were collected through flotation and sieving during the excavation campaigns of 2017–2019. Analyses focused on a sacrificial favissa, on the SW side of the Temple of Cappiddazzu, dedicated to Melqart/Herakles, where the buried remains of seven bovines were also found. Plant remains, preserved mostly by mineralisation, provide i…

  • A hoard of Nilotic nacreous shells from Egypt to Jericho (Early Bronze II, 3000–2800 BCE): Their finding, content and historical archaeological implications

    L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    The Tell es-Sultan, ancient Jericho, is amongst the earliest “cities” that rose in the Southern Levant between the end of 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. The site is being excavated, studied and rehabilitated for tourism by Sapienza University of Rome and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities since 1997. In 2017, during the 13th season of excavation, an unexpected discovery occurred: five Chambardia rubens shells ha…

  • Caress the pharaoh. The tactile reproduction of Ramses II's “mummy” in the Sapienza University Museum of the Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Heritage•2024•Cited by: 1

    The goal of the project accounted in the present article was to produce a perfect replica of the “mummy” of Pharaoh Ramses II with organic and sustainable materials and to let it be displayed without a showcase and even touched by visitors in a museum. The replica was produced by an integrated team of experts through 3D modeling and handcraft. The “mummy” was the core of the exhibition entitled “The mummy of Ramses. The immortal pharaoh” visited …

  • First Field Magnetometer Investigation at the Phoenician Island of Mozia (Trapani), Northwestern Sicily: Preliminary Results

    Open Access•Domenico Di Mauro, Laurence Alfonsi et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2011•Cited by: 1

    The island of Mozia represents a unique location for geophysical investigations applied to archaeological research. The presence of exposed structures and ongoing studies, run by the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome, allows a direct comparison of geophysical exploration data with the excavations results, giving an immediate control on the accuracy and robustness of the geophysical survey conducted. Four areas around the Kothon, a Phoenician artif…

  • Preliminary Report on the First Season of Excavations of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho, April–May 1997

    Nicolò Marchetti, Nicolo''Marchetti et al.•ARTICLE•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•1998•Cited by: 1

    (1998). Preliminary Report on the First Season of Excavations of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho, April–May 1997. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 130, No. 2, pp. 121-144

  • The "Nordburg" of Megiddo: A New Reconstruction on the Basis of Schumacher's Plan

    L Nigro•ARTICLE•Bulletin of the American Schools…•1994

    The so-called "Nordburg" of Megiddo, probably a palace of the end of MB IIA, was excavated at the beginning of this century by G. Schumacher and was reexplored by G. Loud 34 years later. Although he reexamined the structural sequence of the area and ascribed it to Level XII, Loud did not produce an overall plan of the building. That task was achieved for the first time by I. Dunayevsky and A. Kempinski, even though they did not focus their attent…

  • Cultic Activities in the Sacred Area of Ishtar at Ebla during the Old Syrian Period: The Favissae F.5327 and F.5238

    Nicolò Marchetti, Nicolo''Marchetti et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cuneiform Studies•1997•Cited by: 8

  • The Two Steles of Sargon: Iconology and Visual Propaganda at the Beginning of Royal Akkadian Relief

    L Nigro•ARTICLE•Iraq•1998

    Sargon's accession to the throne and the subsequent submission of Mesopotamia to Akkadian sovereignty were accompanied by a strong propaganda campaign, the first such cultural enterprise to go beyond the limits of a single city-state, the echoes of which are reflected in various sources. Being a usurper, Sargon devoted a large part of his propaganda to legitimizing his authority, on the one hand by stressing the continuity between Early Dynastic …

  • Preliminary Report on the First Season of Excavations of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho, April–May 1997

    Nicolò Marchetti, Nicolo''Marchetti et al.•ARTICLE•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•1998•Cited by: 1

    (1998). Preliminary Report on the First Season of Excavations of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho, April–May 1997. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 130, No. 2, pp. 121-144

  • Dominating the river: Khirbet al-Batrawy, an EB II-III city in North-central Jordan

    L Nigro•ARTICLE•Syria•2011

    Les fouilles conduites par l’Université La Sapienza à Khirbet al-Batrawy ont mis au jour, sur le haut Wadi az-Zarqa (au centre/nord de la Jordanie), un site urbain du Bronze ancien. Un système de défense important, élaboré entre les années 2900-2300 av. J.-C., a notamment été révélé. Ainsi la prospection l’a démontré, le secteur du Wadi az-Zarqa a connu, au début du Bronze ancien II, un phénomène de synœcisme qui a conduit au développement de Khi…

  • First Field Magnetometer Investigation at the Phoenician Island of Mozia (Trapani), Northwestern Sicily: Preliminary Results

    Open Access•Domenico Di Mauro, Laurence Alfonsi et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2011•Cited by: 1

    The island of Mozia represents a unique location for geophysical investigations applied to archaeological research. The presence of exposed structures and ongoing studies, run by the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome, allows a direct comparison of geophysical exploration data with the excavations results, giving an immediate control on the accuracy and robustness of the geophysical survey conducted. Four areas around the Kothon, a Phoenician artif…

  • Khirbet al-Batrawy: An Early Bronze Age city at the fringes of the desert

    L Nigro•ARTICLE•Syria•2013

    Les découvertes récentes effectuées par la mission archéologique de l’Université de Rome « La Sapienza » sur le site de Khirbet al-Batrawi fournissent de nouvelles données pour l’interprétation historique de la culture de l’âge du Bronze ancien en Jordanie et au Levant Sud. Est-il possible de parler de « cité » et de phénomène « urbain » pour le Sud levantin à cette période ? L’étude de cas fournie par le site de Batrawi, intégrant un système de …

  • Tell es-Sultan 2015: A Pilot Project for Archaeology in Palestine

    L Nigro•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2016•Cited by: 7

    The eleventh season (April-June 2015) of the archaeological investigation and site protection as well as valorization of the site of Tell es-Sultan was carried out by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (under the direction of the present writer) and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities - Department of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (directed by Jehad Yasine) with the aims to: (1) re-examine several of the historical archaeolog…

  • Landing on Motya.: The earliest Phoenician settlement of the 8th century BC and the creation of a West Phoenician cultural identity in the excavations of Rome «La Sapienza» University ‐ 2012‐2016

    L Nigro, Federica Spagnoli•BOOK•Landing on Motya•2017

  • Motya IV: Building up a West Phoenician colony

    L Nigro•CHAPTER•Landing on Motya•2017

  • Da Gerico a Betlemme.LA Missione Della Sapienza a Gericoe L’archeologia Italiana in Palestina (1997-2017)con Il Contributo Del Ministero Degli Affari Esteri E Della Cooperazione Internazionale

    Open Access•L Nigro•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2018

    When after the Oslo and Madrid agreements the Palestinian National Authority was established it was also provided of a Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities – Dept. of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (MOTA-DACH). At that time, Sapienza University of Rome was chosen as ideal partner to start a new deal in the archaeology of Palestine. By contrast with an enduring colonial tradition, which foresaw a full demission of responsibility by means of the …

  • Pomegranate (Punica Granatum L.) From Motya and Its Deepest Oriental Roots

    Open Access•L Nigro, Federica Spagnoli•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2018

    Pomegranate remains and representations found in the Phoenician site of Motya in Western Sicily give the cue for a summary study of this plant and its fortune in the Near East and the Mediterranean. Fruits offered in wells, a terracotta relief depicting a pomegranate held by a goddess found in the Sacred Area of the Kothon at Motya, and, especially, a pottery vase in the shape of a pomegranate retrieved inside the Temple of Astarte in the same co…

  • D Scanning, Modelling and Printing of Ultra-Thin Nacreous Shells From Jericho: A Case Study of Small Finds Documentation in Archaeology

    Open Access•L Nigro, Luciano Fattore et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2018

    This paper springs out from a collaborative project jointly carried out by the FabLab Saperi&Coand the Museum of Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean of Sapienza University of Rome focused at producing replicas of ultra-thin archeological finds with a sub-millimetric precision. The main technological challenge of this project was to produce models through 3D optical scanning (photogrammetry) and to print faithful replicas with additive manufacturin…

  • A hoard of Nilotic nacreous shells from Egypt to Jericho (Early Bronze II, 3000–2800 BCE): Their finding, content and historical archaeological implications

    L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    The Tell es-Sultan, ancient Jericho, is amongst the earliest “cities” that rose in the Southern Levant between the end of 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. The site is being excavated, studied and rehabilitated for tourism by Sapienza University of Rome and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities since 1997. In 2017, during the 13th season of excavation, an unexpected discovery occurred: five Chambardia rubens shells ha…

  • Protecting and rehabilitating the archaeology of Bethlehem

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2018•References: 5

    and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities-Department of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage-have revealed four Bronze Age necropolises. These newly discovered sites illuminate

  • Khalet AL-JAM‟A.A Bronze and Iron Ages Necropolis Near Bethlehem (Palestine): Results of the 2019 Archaeological Excavations

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2019

    In Spring 2019 the Italian-Palestinian joint team of Sapienza Universityof Romeand the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine Dept. of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage resumed rescue excavationsatthe Necropolis of Khalet al-Jam’a,2.2 Km south-east fromthe Church of Nativity inBethlehem. Workswerefocused on Tomb A7, identified in 2015, a huge underground burial place, dating back to theIron IIC(8th-7thcentury BC), but also including ear…

  • The Temple of Astarte “Aglaia” at Motya and Its Cultural Significance in the Mediterranean Realm

    Open Access•L Nigro•CHAPTER•Religious Convergence in the…•2019

    Recent excavations at Motya by the Sapienza University of Rome and the Sicil- ian Superintendence of Trapani have expanded our information on the Phoenician goddess Astarte, her sacred places, and her role in the Phoenician expansion to the West during the first half of the first millennium BCE. Two previously unknown religious buildings dedicated to this deity have been discovered and excavated in the last decade. The present article discusses t…

  • Qalet Hamra: A Mamluk Khan North of Zarqa, Jordan

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2019

    The site of Qalet Hamra was well known in Zarqa but it never attracted archaeologists and surveyors untila few years ago,possibly due to its location on a spur dominating the bifurcations between Wadi az-Zarqa and Wadi Shomar, a sort of shortcut leading straight ward to the west, in direction of the Jordan Valley.Moreover it was nearby a major ford across the river, which both banks were caravan tracks in antiquity. In 2015and 2018 Sapienza Unive…

  • Jericho and the Chronology of Palestine in the Early Bronze Age: A Radiometric Re-Assessment

    Open Access•L Nigro, Lucio Calcagnile et al.•ARTICLE•Radiocarbon•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 20

    The absolute chronology of Early Bronze Age in the Levant has been the object of a major revision (Regev et al. 2012a), which implied an increase of at least two centuries in respect of traditional chronology. Such a shift back was based upon two sites (Tel Yarmouth, Megiddo) which were the backbone of the “reform,” but actually do not offer complete sequences for the whole EBA. This was the weakest stone of the revision, together with a partial …

  • A Sardinian Early 1st Millennium Bc Bronze Axe From Motya

    Open Access•L Nigro, Daria Montanari et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2020

    An Iron Age bronze axe was found in Motya (Sicily, Italy)in a prehistoric layer dating from the 10thcentury BC underneath the 4thcentury BC patrician residency known as “Casa dei mosaici”. The axe belongs to the double-looped socketed typewell known in central Mediterranean in the time span 1200-900 BC, and it is comparable with some coeval Sardinian specimens.The bronze has been characterised using the backscattering electron signal of a SEM (Sc…

  • An Egyptian Green Schistpaletteand an Amazonite Gemstonefrom the “Palace of the Copper Axes” at Batrawy, Jordan

    Open Access•L Nigro, Elisabetta Gallo et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2020

    The exploration of the “Palace of the Copper Axes”, the Early Bronze Age III palace of the easternmost city of Southern Levant during the 3rdmillennium BC,was resumedin 2018, during the 14thseason of excavation at Khirbet al-Batrawy in north-central Jordan, and completed in 2019. In the entrance hall of the palace,a square space with ceilings supported by four pillars, an Egyptian green schist palette, a cyan gemstone of amazoniteand a pierced be…

  • The Divine Spiritof Bees.A Note on Honey and the Origins of Yeast-Driven Fermentation

    Open Access•L Nigro, Teresa Rinaldi•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2020

    One of the earliest domesticated organisms is perhaps the eukaryote microorganism known as Saccharomycescerevisiae, or more simply “the yeast”. Its role in triggering fermentation as a process useful for agricultural products preservation and transformationinto food, though known from the Palaeolithicin the ancient Near East, became decisive in the Neolithic Period. The earliest agriculturalists of the Fertile Crescenttriggeredfermentationwith th…

  • Plant Assemblage of the Phoenician Sacrificial Pit by the Temple of Melqart/Herakles (Motya, Sicily, Italy)

    Claudia Moricca, L Nigro et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 16

    Archaeobotanical remains from the Phoenician – Punic site of Motya, set in the Marsala Lagoon in Western Sicily (Italy), were collected through flotation and sieving during the excavation campaigns of 2017–2019. Analyses focused on a sacrificial favissa, on the SW side of the Temple of Cappiddazzu, dedicated to Melqart/Herakles, where the buried remains of seven bovines were also found. Plant remains, preserved mostly by mineralisation, provide i…

  • Cartagine: La Città E Le Necropolirapporto Preliminare Sullaprima Campagna Di Scavi (2021)dell’institut National Du Patrimoinee Dell’università Di Roma «la Sapienza»

    Open Access•L Nigro, Federico Cappella et al.•ARTICLE•Vicino Oriente•2021

    Dans le cadre de la coopération scientifique entre l’Institut National du Patrimoine et l’Université de Rome « La Sapienza », une première campagne de fouille a eu lieu dans un secteur de la nécropole punique de Dermech à Carthage, dans l’enceinte du parc des thermes d’Antonin et aux abords de la colline de Borj-Jedid, du 17 octobre au 10 novembre 2021.Sous les vestiges romains et byzantins, neuf tombes –à fosse et à chambre unique avec puits d’a…

  • Grapes and vines of the Phoenicians: Morphometric analyses of pips from modern varieties and Iron Age archaeological sites in the Western Mediterranean

    Open Access•Claudia Moricca, L Bouby et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021•References: 27

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