This paper, offered to Clelia Mora in her Festschrift, describes some peculiar features in the use of seals and sealings in ancient Hittite culture.

The Levant has always been a crucial zone for contacts between Egypt and the ancient Near East. During the Late Bronze Age (the ‘international period’) and the Iron Age, pharaonic Egypt, the Hittite empire, and later the Neo-Hittite and Aramaic states shared many occasions of exchange and interaction, testified both by texts and artefacts: amo…[Read more]

The paper aims at providing a historical presentation and a brief
description of the quite unknown manufacts kept in the Egyptian
collection of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia.
The materials, most of them gifts given by scholars, travellers and
scientists, in the fist mid of the 19th century, are a good evidence
both of…[Read more]

Notes from the 2017 Excavation of Cave 11Q

A brief overview on the status questionis and the status artis about the 2nd millennium BC Anatolian glyptic: §1 by C. Mora, “Forthcoming publication of the second supplement to: La glittica anatolica del II millennio a.C.: classificazione tipologica”; §2 by M. De Pietri, “Preliminary indexes about 2nd mill. Anatolian glyptic: some ground data”

Niğde-Kınık Höyük: Excavation Report of Season 2017

Report of excavation at Kınık Höyük (Turkey), season 2016 (specifically, paragraph “Operation B”, together with L. d’Alfonso, pp. 591-592).

The paper presents the report about the excavation campaign at Qumran cave 11Q,
carried out from 9th to 19th March 2017 by the Istituto di cultura e archeologia delle
terre bibliche of the Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano (ISCAB-FTL) and by the Università
della Svizzera Italiana (USI). Previous archaeological excavations, undertaken
by Roland d…[Read more]

The present paper analyses the mutual influences between Egypt and the city of Karkemish (present Jarabulus) during both the 2nd and the 1st Millennium BC. This Syrian city was indeed an important site located on the Euphrates river, along the border between modern Turkey and Syria and is surely better known for its strong relationship with the…[Read more]

A brief reflection on the concept of pre-classical antiquity square, analyzing some archaeological and textual sources.

Some historical and scientific information about Giuseppe Botti “the Second”, specially about his contacts with the Università degli Studi di Pavia, regarding an unpublished papyrus of Amduat (12th hour) (Italy).

Whilst gold is the metal that is most commonly associated with Mycenae -mostly because of Homer’s reference to that city, but also because of the fabulous death masks that were uncovered by Schliemann in the shaft graves of Grave circle A, relatively little is known about the role and appreciation of silver in the Mycenaean world. Silver artefacts…[Read more]