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Stefania Ermidoro

Marco De Pietri – August 2023

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Stefania Ermidoro (sE)

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Curriculum vitae

2003Graduated in the secondary school "Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi" in Bergamo (Italy)
October 31, 2006Graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology of Ancient Near East at Università Ca' Foscari (Venice, Italy)
March 25, 2009Graduated with a Master's Degree in History, Philology and Literature of Ancient Near East at Venice University
2013PhD in Philology and History of the Ancient Near East, Venice University

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Archaeological field work

2004San Giacomo in Paludo, Venice (Italy)
2005Isernia la Pineta, Molise (Italy)
2006Hergla, Tunisia
2008Tell Mozan (Syria)
2009Tell Mozan (Syria)
2010Tell Mozan (Syria)

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Tasks at Mozan

2008Field assistant in unit A20, worked in the field as archaeologist and in the laboratory (recording data, describing objects)
2009Field principal assistant in unit J05.
2010Working on the Conservation Project for the Palace Walls and for the Site Presentation Project.

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Academic Writings (selection)

2011"Le collezioni di documenti cuneiformi in Italia", Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 53, 71-96.
2011"La comunicazione assente: sordi e muti nel Vicino Oriente Antico", in C. Antonetti, G. Masaro, A. Pistellato, L. Toniolo (eds.), Comunicazione e Linguaggi. Contributi della Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche, Indirizzo in Storia Antica e Archeologia (Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente 8), Padova, 95-112.
2012"Il banchetto nei testi letterari della Mesopotamia", in L. Milano (ed.), Mangiare divinamente. Pratiche e simbologie alimentari nell'antico Oriente, Firenze, 153-176.
2013"Babilonesi allo specchio: un esercizio di autorappresentazione", in G. Baldacci - E.M. Ciampini - E. Girotto - G. Masaro (a cura di), Percorsi identitari tra Mediterraneo e Vicino Oriente Antico. Contributi del Dottorato in Storia Antica e Archeologia (Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente 9), Padova, 89-106.
2014"Food Prohibitions and Dietary Regulations in Ancient Mesopotamia", Aula Orientalis 32/1, 79-91.
2015Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Antichistica 8. Studi Orientali 3), Venezia.
2016"New Data on the Babylonian Hydraulic Landscape: An Update to the Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes Vol 8", KASKAL. Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico 13, 135-174.
2016"Eating and Drinking in Dreams. Tablet A of the Assyrian 'Dream Book'", in P. Corò et al. (eds.), Libiamo ne' lieti calici. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Lucio Milano on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends (AOAT 436), Münster, 161-179.
2017Quando gli dèi erano uomini. Atrahasis e la storia babilonese del genere umano (Testi per il Vicino Oriente Antico 9), Torino.
2017"A Travelling Lamaštu. The Modern Journey of an Amulet", Altorientalische Forschungen 44/1, 19-22.
2017"Ruling over Time. The Calendar in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Propaganda", State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 23, 131-156.
2017Buccellati, G. - Ermidoro, S. - Mahmoud, Y., I millenni per l'oggi. L'archeologia contro la guerra: Urkesh di ieri nella Siria di oggi, Firenze.
2019"The Latest Layard Archive: New Documents from Newcastle University", Iraq 81, 127-144.
2019"The Repentant God in The Flood Story. A Comparison Between When Gods Were Men and Genesis 6-9", in S. Valentini - G. Guarducci (eds), Between Syria and the Highlands: Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati (Studies on the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean 3), Rome, 168-174.
2019"Guests of the Gods: Ritualized Meals in First-Millennium Assyria", in M.L. Arnette (éd), Religion ed alimentation dans l'Egypte et l'Orient anciens, Le Caire, 305-334.
2019"Il ne mangera pas de poisson. Restrictions alimentaires dans la Mésopotamie ancienne", in E. Mazzetto (ed), Vous n'en mangerez point ! L'alimentation comme distinction religieuse (Problèmes d'histoire des religions 27), Brussels, 23-35.
2019"Animals in the Ancient Mesopotamian Diet. Prohibitions and Regulations Related to Meat in the First Millennium BCE", in P. Altmann - A. Angelini - A. Spiciarich (eds), Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions: Reassessing Archaeological and Literary Perspectives (Archaeology and Bible 2), Tübingen, 25-42.

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Conference Papers (selection)

2010"La comunicazione assente: sordi e muti nel Vicino Oriente Antico", Giornate della Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche - Dottorato in Storia Antica e Archeologia, Venice 2-4 November 2010.
2011"Babilonesi allo specchio: un esercizio di autorappresentazione", Giornate della Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche - Dottorato in Storia Antica e Archeologia, Venice, 25-27 May 2011.
2012"Il banchetto nei testi letterari della Mesopotamia", Mangiare divinamente. Pratiche e simbologie alimentari nel Vicino Oriente, Venice, 24-25 February 2012.
2013"Food Prohibitions and Dietary Regulations in Ancient Mesopotamia", A man doth not live by bread only. Food, kitchen and cuisine in antiquity, Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, University of Wroclaw , 13-15 June 2013.
2013"The 'Protocol for the Royal Banquet': Keeping Order at the King's Table", 59° Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East, Ghent, 15-19 July 2013.
2013"Il banchetto assiro", Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 11 December 2013.
2015"The Neo-Assyrian Religious Calendar", Oriental Institute, Oxford (UK), 20 July 2015.
2017"Tabooed animals in the ancient Mesopotamian diet: prohibitions and regulations related to meat in the first millennium BCE", University of Lausanne (Switzerland), 14 June 2017.
2018"The Urkesh Extended Project: Archaeology for the future", Durham University (UK), 28 March 2018.
2018"I feel wonderful drinking beer, in a blissful moood.. Drinking and banqueting in ancient Mesopotamia", University of Copenhagen (Denmark), 30 August 2018.
2020"The rythm of rites: consequences of intercalation on Mesopotamian religious ceremonies", Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 31 January 2020.

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Data authored for the Urkesh Global Record

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