Ph.D. Alessandra Gilibert
Researcher
Present Positions
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since 2011 |
Lecturer at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Masaryk Universität, Brno (Czech Republic) |
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since 2008 |
Research Associate at the Excellence Cluster "Topoi - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations." Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde. |
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2005–2008 |
Deputy Field Director of the Tell Fecheriye Excavation Project in Syria. |
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2004–2008 |
Research Assistant at the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin. |
Ongoing Research and Papers in Preparation
FIELDWORK
- The Armenian dragon’s stones
ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
- Archaeology of the plaza. Crowds, performance, and urban design in the ancient Near East.
- Death, amusement and the city. Civic spectacles and the theatre palace of Kapara, king of Guzana.
- The sphinx in place. A spatial analysis of human-headed lions.
IMAGES
- Invisible images. A Haitian Vodou perspective on ancient Near Eastern building deposits.
- Tukulti Ninurta through the looking glass. Space and communication in Middle Assyrian art.
- The Kulamuwa Orthostat. A contextual and narratological analysis.
- Art and Spectacle in the Ancient Near East.
- Ittobaal’s logic of concealment – The sarcophagus of Ahirom revisited.
GENDER STUDIES
- The Babylon Marriage Market. A “lot” of women in a High Victorian Assyrian palace.
- Age markers and the rhetorics of childhood in the first millennium BC.
Education
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2008 |
Promotion in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. Freie Universität Berlin. Thesis: “Image and context in Syro-Hittite monumental art. The archaeology of performance and the stone reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the Earlier Iron Age”. |
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2001 |
M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Philology and Historical Anthropology. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Thesis: “Kār Tukultī-Ninurta: the building program and early history of an Assyrian ville neuve”. |
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1995 |
Maturità Classica. Liceo Classico M. Polo, Venedig |
Grants & Awards
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2008 |
Funding grant for the publication of the doctoral dissertation, awarded by the Frauenförderung of the Freie Universität Berlin. |
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2007-2008 |
Scholarship award of the Slovak Academic Information Agency. Host institution: University of Trnava, Faculty of Humanities. |
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2002-2004 |
Fellowship grant at the Graduiertenkolleg “Anatolia and its Neighbours”. Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany. |
Fieldwork
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since 2011 |
Geghama Mountains, Armenia |
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2006-2008 |
Tell Fecheriye, Syria |
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2002-2003 |
Tell Burak, Libanon |
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1999-2000 |
Kamid el-Loz, Libanon |
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1999 |
Misherfe, Syria |
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1998 |
Acconia, Italy |
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1997 |
Isle of Torcello, Italy |
Books
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2011 |
Syro-Anatolian Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance, Berlin: De Gruyter. |
Articles
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forthcoming |
Archäologie der Menschenmenge. Platzanlage, Bildwerke und Fest im Syro-Hethitischen Stadtgefüge. In: O. Dalley – S. Moraw – H. Ziemmsen, Bild – Raum – Handlung, Berlin: De Gruyter. |
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2011 |
Die anatolische Sphinx. In: L. Winckler-Horacek (Hg.), Die Wege der Sphinx. Ein Monster zwischen Orient und Okzident, Rahden/Westf., 7-17. |
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2011 |
Die nordsyrische Sphinx. In: L. Winckler-Horacek (Hg.), Die Wege der Sphinx. Ein Monster zwischen Orient und Okzident, Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 47-60. |
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2009 |
Zu Tisch im Jenseits. Totenmahl und Ahnenkult in der Levante (1600 –700 v. u. Z.). In M. Friedlander – C. Kugelmann (Hg.), Koscher & Co. Über Essen und Religion, Berlin, 288-294. |
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2008 |
(with P. Bartl, D. Bonatz, and C. Jauss) Bericht über die erste und zweite Grabungskampagne in Tell Fecheriye 2006 und 2007. In Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient Gesellschaft 140, 89-134. |
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2008 |
On Kār Tukultī-Ninurta: chronology and politics of a Middle Assyrian ville neuve. In Fundstellen. Gesammelte Schriften zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altvorderasiens ad honorem Hartmut Kühne, edited by D. Bonatz, R. M. Czichon, and F. J. Kreppner, Wiesbaden 2008, 177-188. |
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2007 |
Five drums at Carchemish: an unrecognized burial along the Herald’s Wall? Istanbuler Mitteilungen 57:45-58. |
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2007 |
Lamp. In Iconographies of deities and demons in the Ancient Near East. An iconographic dictionary with special emphasis on First Millennium BCE Palestine/Israel. Eggler J. and Ch. Uehlinger (Eds). Online access (last visit 10-02-2008). |
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2007 |
Stylus. In Iconographies of deities and demons in the Ancient Near East. An iconographic dictionary with special emphasis on First Millennium BCE Palestine/Israel. Eggler J.and Ch. Uehlinger(Eds). Online access (last visit 10-02-2008). |
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2006 |
Warfare techniques in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia. In Anodos 4-5, 93-100. |
| 2004 |
Jenseits von Stil und Ikonographie. Späthethitische Einflüsse auf das assyrische Wandrelief. In Die Außenwirkung des späthethitischen Kulturraumes. Güteraustausch - Kulturkontakt - Kulturtransfer. Akten der zweiten Forschungstagung des Graduiertenkollegs "Anatolien und seine Nachbarn" der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (20. bis 22. November 2003). AOAT 323. Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 373-386. |
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2003 |
Tell Burak: the Iron Age context in Sq. 28/25 and 29/25. In BAAL 7. |
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2002 |
Die altmesopotamischen Weihplatten. In Freiburger Universitätsblätter 156/2, 66-71 |
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2001 |
(with D. Bonatz) Kamid el-Loz 1997 and 1999: the excavations on the „hilltop“ (Kuppe) (Area II G 1-3). In BAAL 5, 18-33. |
Reviews
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2011 |
Review of Sam'al: ein aramäischer Stadtstaat des 10. bis 8. Jhs. v. Chr. und die Geschichte seiner Erforschung. R.-B. Wartke. Mainz: von Zabern, 2005. In Orientalische Literaturzeitung 106, 4-5. |
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2010 |
Review of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context. Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students, edited by Jack Cheng and Marian Feldman, Leiden: Brill. 2007, Orientalische Literaturzeitung 105, 39-41. |
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2007 |
Review of Uruk. Kleinfunde IV. Metall- und Steinobjekte im Vorderasiatischen Museum zu Berlin. Friedhelm Pedde, Marlies Heinz und Bernd Müller-Neuhof. Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka. Endberichte (AUWE) Band 21. Mainz: Zabern, 2000, Orientalische Literaturzeitung 102, 285-287. |
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2005 |
Review of Karatepe/Aslantaş. Azatiwataya. Die Bildwerke. H. Çambel - A. Özyar. Mainz: Zabern 2003, Orientalische Literaturzeitung 100, 410-412. |