Maria Floriani Squarciapino
Born1917 (1917)
Rome
Died2003 (aged 85–86)
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

Maria Floriano 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 also 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

Floriano 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, Floriano Squarciapino 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 70s, Floriano Squarciapino also 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, Floriano 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] Floriano Squarciapino also contributed to the Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale and led the editorial team at Fasti Archeologici from 1982 to 1997. She was the 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

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

Select publications

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

  1. 1 2 3 "FLORIANI SQUARCIAPINO Maria (Roma, 1917 – 2003)" (PDF).
  2. 1 2 3 "Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003)". www.ostia-antica.org. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003)". www.ostia-antica.org. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  4. 1 2 (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". www.ostia-foundation.org. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  6. ↑ "OSMAP History of the Synagogue Site 1". www.laits.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  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". www.lincei.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  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 2022-01-20.
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