Maria Floriani Squarciapino

Maria Floriani Squarciapino
Born(1917-01-30)30 January 1917
Rome, Italy
Died29 September 2003(2003-09-29) (aged 86)
Rome, Italy
OccupationArchaeologist
Academic work
DisciplineRoman archaeology
InstitutionsLa Sapienza University; Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy)

Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003) was an Italian classical archaeologist and professor at La Sapienza University in Rome, known for her work on the Roman port city of Ostia.

Education[edit]

Squarciapino studied at La Sapienza University in Rome and was a student of Pietro Romanelli,[1] graduating in 1939 with a thesis on the topic of the school of Aphrodisias.[2][3][4] She developed an interest in the archaeology of North Africa in the Roman period,[3] and underwent training at the Scuola nazionale di Archeologi.[1]

Career[edit]

Squarciapino became an inspector at the Soprintendenza for Ostia in 1946, where she worked closely with Italo Gismondi, Giovanni Becatti, Herbert Bloch and others.[3] After the publication of the excavations of the Ostian necropolis in 1959, she turned her attention to the Ostia Synagogue, where she directed excavations in 1961–62.[5][6] In 1966, she became the superintendent of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia and held this position until 1974.[1] During the 1960s and 1970s, she taught at La Sapienza, and in 1974 left the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia to take up a position as Professor of the Archaeology and History of the Roman provinces (Archeologia e Storia delle provincie romane) at La Sapienza, which she held until her retirement in 1987.[2]

As well as her work at Ostia, Squarciapino also participated in excavations elsewhere, including the Roman Forum (1955–57), Leptis Magna, Tell Mardikh (1964–66) and in Albania.[4][2] A collection of her notes from excavations at Leptis Magna was published by Paola Finocchi in 2012.[7][8] Squarciapino contributed to the Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale and led the editorial team at Fasti Archeologici from 1982 to 1997. She was president of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, a member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and the German Archaeological Institute.[3] In 1997, a special volume of the journal Archaeologica Classica was published in her honour.[9]

Awards[edit]

In 1975, Maria Floriani Squarciapino was awarded the Antonio-Feltrinelli Prize, one of the most prestigious scientific awards within Italy.[10]

Select publications[edit]

Squarciapino published extensively on Ostia and Roman Archaeology in North Africa, including:[11]

  • Artigianato e industria (= Civiltà Romana. Band 20). Colombo, Rome 1942.
  • La Scuola di Afrodisia (= Studi e materiali del Museo dell’Impero Romano. Nr. 3). Governatorato di Roma, Rome 1943.
  • Il Museo della Via Ostiense (= Itineraria dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia.) Band 91. Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Rome 1955.
  • ed. with Italo Gismondi: Le tombe di età Repubblicana e Augustea (= Scavi di Ostia. Band 3: I necropoli. Teil 1). Istituto poligrafico dello stato, Rome 1958.[12]
  • I Culti orientali ad Ostia. Brill, Leiden 1962.[13]
  • Leptis Magna (= Ruinenstädte Nordafrikas. Band 2). Raggi, Basel 1966.
  • Sculture del foro severiano di Leptis Magna. «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, Rome 1974.
  • Civiltà romana: artigianato e industria.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "MARIA FLORIANI SQUARCIAPINO (1917-2003)" (PDF).
  2. ^ a b c "Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003)". ostia-antica.org. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003)". ostia-antica.org. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. ^ a b (2012) 'Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003): una pioniera dell'archeologia italiana' in ed. Finocchi, P. Le sculture delle terme adrianee di Leptis Magna. Dagli appunti di M. Floriani Squarciapino. (9788890644306) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316076583_Maria_Floriani_Squarciapino_1917-2003_una_pioniera_dell'archeologia_italiana
  5. ^ "Sacred Space on the Shore: Ostia's Synagogue". ostia-foundation.org. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  6. ^ "OSMAP History of the Synagogue Site 1". www.laits.utexas.edu. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  7. ^ Finocchi, Paola (2012). Le sculture delle terme Adrianee di Leptis Magna. Dagli appunti di M. Floriani Squarciapino (in Italian). Espera. ISBN 978-88-906443-0-6.
  8. ^ "HistLit 2014-2-066 / Lennart Gilhaus über Finocchi, Paola: Le sculture delle terme adrianee di Leptis Magna. Dagli appunti di M. Floriani Squarciapino. Rom 2012, in: H-Soz-Kult 28.04.2014".
  9. ^ "Le province dell'Impero: Miscellanea in onore di Maria Floriani Squarciapino". Archeologia Classica. 49: VII–X. 1997. ISSN 0391-8165. JSTOR 44365843.
  10. ^ "Premi Feltrinelli 1950-2011 | Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei". lincei.it (in Italian). Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  11. ^ Baldassarri, Paola (1997). Bibliografia di Maria Floriani Squarciapino. In: Le province dell'Impero: Miscellanea in onore di Maria Floriani Squarciapino (= Archeologia Classica. Band 49). Rome: L’Erma» di Bretschneider. pp. XI–XVIII.
  12. ^ Richardson, L. (1960). "Review of Scavi di Ostia III. Le Necropoli, Parte I". American Journal of Archaeology. 64 (2): 207–210. doi:10.2307/502562. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 502562.
  13. ^ Bakker, Jan Theo. M. Floriani Squarciapino, I culti orientali ad Ostia.
  14. ^ "Civiltà romana: artigianato e industria. by SQUARCIAPINO Maria. | Libreria Oreste Gozzini snc". www.abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
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