emanuele.intagliata@unimi.it
2025 – ad oggi – Professore Associato – Università degli Studi di Milano
2022 – 2024 – Ricercatore di tipo B (RTDB) – Università degli Studi di Milano
2021 – 2022 – Postdoc – Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
2018-2021 – Assistant Professor – Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University
2017-2018 – Teaching Fellow in Roman Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
2016-2017 – Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
2015-2016 – Postdoctoral research fellow – TÜBİTAK – Koç University, Istanbul
2011-2014 – Dottorato (Ph.D.) in Archeologia – University of Edinburgh
2009-2011 – Laurea Magistrale in Archeologia – Università degli Studi di Milano
2005-2008 – Laurea Triennale in Scienze dei Beni Culturali – Università degli Studi di Milano
Interessi di ricerca
- Archeologia delle frontiere nell’Oriente romano
- Sviluppo urbanistico tra il quarto e l’ottavo secolo d.C.
Bibliografia
Volumi e curatele
(con A. Gnasso, T.J. MacMaster, B.N. Morris, eds), The Long Seventh Century. Continuity and Discontinuity in an Age of Transition. Proceedings of the 2013 Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium (University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2013). Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015.
Palmyra after Zenobia (AD 272–750): an archaeological and historical reappraisal. Oxford: Oxbow books, 2018.
(con S. Barker, C. Courault (eds), City walls in Late Antiquity: an empire-wide perspective. Proceedings of a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on 20-21 June 2018. Oxford: Oxbow books, 2020.
(con P. Everill, a cura di), On the shoulders of Prometheus: International Collaboration and the Archaeology of Georgia (Georgian Archaeological Monograph, 1). Oxford 2023.
(con I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, J. Steding, a cura di), Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds: New perspectives on invisible agents and dynamics, Oxford 2024.
The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project. Selected essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi, a cura di Emanuele E. Intagliata (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 12). Turnhout 2025.
(con Harvey A. Craig, R. Raja, a cura di, Khirbet al-Khalde. Final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023 (The Archaeology and History of Western Asia, 1). Turnhout 2026.
Articoli
The White Ware from Palmyra (Syria). Preliminary data from the new excavations in the South-West quarter, in N. Poulou-Papadimitriou, E. Nodarou, V. Kilikoglou (eds), LRCW 4. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean. Archaeology and archaeometry. The Mediterranean: a market without frontiers, Oxford 2014, pp. 649-655.
Understanding social identities through the ceramic evidence. The case of “Quartiere degli Artigiani’ in Calvatone-Bedriacum, in D.B. Casasola, T. Cvjetićanin, P.M. Kenrick, S. Menchelli (ed.), Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores Acta 43. From Broken Pottery to Lost Identities in Roman Times. Bonn 2014, pp. 393-400.
(con B.N. Morris), Re-evaluating the Edinburgh 7th century colloquium experience, in A. Gnasso, T.J. MacMaster, B.N. Morris (eds). The Long Seventh Century. Continuity and Discontinuity in an Age of Transition. Proceedings of the 2013 Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium (University of Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2013), Oxford 2015.
The potential of archives for archaeological research on sites in conflict zones. A case study, in Archaeological Review from Cambridge (2016), pp. 102-124.
Palmyra and its ramparts during the Tetrarchy, in E. Rizos (ed.), New cities in Late Antiquity. Documents and Archaeology (Bibliothéque de l’Antiquité Tardive), Turnhout 2017, pp. 71-83.
The post-Roman occupation of the northern courtyard of the Sanctuary of Baalshamin in Palmyra; a reassessment of the evidence based on the documents at the Fonds d’Archives Paul Collart, Université de Lausanne, in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 9 (2017), pp. 180-199.
The unpublished archival material from the Fonds d’Archives Paul Collart, University of Lausanne; remarks on the numismatic record of the Sanctuary of Baalshamin, in Rivista Italiana di Numismatica e Scienze Affini 119 (2018), pp. 15-30.
Rome and the Tzani in Late Antiquity. A historical and archaeological review, in Anatolian Studies 68 (2018), pp. 131-150.
Pinpointing unrest at Palmyra in the early Islamic period. The evidence from coin hoards and written sources, in Études et Travaux 31 (2018), pp. 183-196.
(con E.W. Sauer, J. Nokandeh, H.O. Rekavandi, M.B. Bayati, F. Caputo, M. Heise et al., Forts and megafortresses, natural and artificial barriers: the grand strategy of the Sasanian Empire, in M.H.A. Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi, M. Khanipour, R. Naseri (eds), Proceedings of the International Congress of Young Archaeologists, Tehran 2018, pp. 236-256.
Geç Antik Çağ’da Tzanika’nın (Kuzeydoğu Anadolu) sınır savunma sistemine ilişkin notlar, in Belleten 297 (2019), pp. 427-438.
(con D. Naskidashvili, J.R. Snyder), Towards a high-definition approach to the study of Byzantine fortifications. The case study of Tsikhisdziri (western Georgia), in Anatolica 45 (2019), pp. 181-192.
(con A. Kakhidze, F. Harley, D. Naskidashvili, A Late Antique church at Napurvala hill (Pichvnari, western Georgia) and its associated cemetery. A reappraisal based on the surviving evidence at the Batumi Archaeological Museum, in Phasis – Greek and Roman Studies 21-22 (2019), pp. 140-170.
Forgotten borderlands: northeastern Anatolia in the 6th century, in I. Jacobs, H. Elton (eds), Asia Minor in the Sixth Century AD. Current Research and Future Directions, Oxford 2019, pp. 79-90.
The city that would not fall. Palmyra in late antique and early Islamic times, in A.M. Nielsen, R. Raja (eds), The Road to Palmyra, Copenhagen 2019, pp. 255-268.
(con S. Barker, C. Courault), Approaching late-antique city walls with an Empire-wide perspective, in E.E. Intagliata, S. Barker, C. Courault (eds.), City walls in Late Antiquity: an empire-wide perspective, Proceedings of a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on 20-21 June 2018, Oxford 2020, pp. 1-7.
A tale of three cities. Remarks on urban survival in the south-west Black Sea coast from Late Antiquity to the Middle Byzantine period, in Nea Rhōmē. Rivista di Studi Bizantinistici 16 (2020), pp. 7-31.
Settlement networks and river navigation in the Rioni – western Georgia. From Strabo to Jean-François Gamba and back again, WIREs Water 2020 [available online at: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20491948].
(con R. Papuashvili, D. Naskidashvili), Excavations at Machkhomeri – Khobi Municipality. Preliminary report of the 2019 season, in Pro Georgia – Journal of Kartvelological Studies 30 (2020), pp. 121-134.
(con D. Naskidashvili, J. R. Snyder, Preliminary report of the ‘Forgotten Borderlands’ project in Guria and Adjara. Several remarks on the result of the structural survey at Tsikhisdziri, in O. Adelheid, M. Herles, K. Kaniuth (a cura di), Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, vol. 2. Wiesbaden 2020, pp. 151-160.
(con R. Papuashvili, A. Vinogradov, D. Naskidashvili, G. Chitaia, Report of the 2020 excavations at Machkhomeri (Khobi Municipality), in Pro Georgia – Journal of Kartvelological Studies 31 (2021), pp. 295-304.
Reuse of building material and sculpture in late antique and early Islamic Palmyra (273-750 CE). An overview of the practice and several remarks on the evidence from the Sanctuary of Baalshamin, in Syria 98 (2021), pp. 419-438.
Due note sul Bâtiment Nord del Santuario di Baalshamin a Palmira, in Lanx – Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano 29 (2021), pp. 13-21.
Framing the study of late antique cities in Lazica and nearby territories (300-600 CE), in A. Cortese, G. Fiorato (a cura di), Urban Space between the Roman Age and Late Antiquity – Continuity, Discontinuity, and Changes, Regensburg 2022, pp. 119-131.
(con M. Blömer), Archive archaeology at the Forschungsstelle Asia Minor, University of Münster: the Dörner archive and its untapped potential, in O. Bobou, A. C. Miranda, R. Raja (a cura di), Archival Historiographies: the impact of 20th-Century Legacy Data on Archaeological Investigations, Turnhout 2022, pp. 145-159.
Alcune note sull’iconografia dell’orante a Palmira, in E. Menotti (a cura di), L’Orante; …nel tuo nome alzerò le mie mani …., Rome 2022, pp. 93-95.
The fate of Palmyra and the East after AD 273. A few remarks on trade, economy and connectivity in late antiquity and the early Islamic period, in R. Raja, K. Lapatin (a cura di), Palmyra and the East (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History, 8), Turnhout 2022, pp. 59-68.
(con M. Daghmehchi, S. Priestman, G. Pushnigg, J. Nokandeh, J., H. O. Rekavandi, E. W. Sauer, Comparative studies of the Sasanian ceramics from forts on the Great Wall of Gorgan and fortifications in its hinterland, in E. Sauer, J. Nokandeh, H. O. Rekavandi (a cura di), Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity’s Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran: A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organisation and the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham (2014–2016), Oxford 2022, pp. 475-576.
(con G. Barfod), Late antique lamps casting light on glass recycling and import at Machkhomeri (Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia), Journal of Glass Studies 65 (2023), pp. 292-298.
Placing the Container before the Content: The Cases of the ‘Iron Field’ and ‘Mosaic Field’ at Eski Kăhta at the Dörner Archive – Forschungsstelle Asia Minor, Münster, in R. Raja (a cura di), Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues between Fieldwork, Museum Collection, and Private Archives (Archive Archaeology 4), Turnhout 2023.
Tra luci e ombre: studiare Palmira tardo antica e islamica ieri e oggi, in C. Ruta (a cura di), Luci sul Medioevo. Età logica, età delle lingue d’Europa, età degli Studia Generalia. Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Laboratorio degli Annali di Storia. I paradigmi 2), Cosenza 2023, pp. 45-60.
(con R. Papuashvili, A. Vinogradov, D. Naskidashvili, G. Chitaia, A new late antique church complex at the foot of the Greater Caucasus – Machkhomeri hill (Khobi Municipality)’, in E. E. Intagliata, P. Everill (a cura di), On the shoulders of Prometheus: International Collaboration and the Archaeology of Georgia (Georgian Archaeological Monograph, 1), Oxford 2023, pp. 124-133.
(con P. Everill), Introduction, in E. E. Intagliata, P. Everill (a cura di), On the shoulders of Prometheus: international collaboration and the archaeology of Georgia (Georgian Archaeological Monograph, 1), Oxford 2023, pp. xii–xiv.
A matter of size. A dimensional approach to the study of reused inscriptions and sculptures from the Sanctuary of Baalshamin at Palmyra, in R. Raja, N. Andrade (a cura di), Exchange and Reuse: Economy and Circularity at Palmyra (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History), Turnhout 2023, pp. 99-111.
(con I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, J. Steding), Circular economy in the Roman and Early Medieval periods. Methods of analysis for a future agenda, Open Archaeology 9/1 (2023), pp. 1-18.
Notes on a glass assemblage and associated wick-holders from Machkhomeri (Khobi Municipality – Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, western Georgia), in Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 30 (2024), pp. 255-277.
(con C. A. Harvey, R. Raja, Khirbet al-Khalde – A Road Station in the Wadi al-Yutm, in Archaeology in Jordan 4 (2024), pp. 173–175.
(con A. Bacchetta, Late antique and early Islamic Palmyra in perspective. The potential and limits of incomplete datasets, in R. Raja, (a cura di). Palmyra in perspective (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History, 11), Turnhout 2024, pp. 199-212.
(con C. A.Harvey, R. Raja), A multiscalar approach to survey of military and trade architecture in Jordan: the case of Khirbet al-Khalde, in Antiquity (2024), pp. 1-7.
(con C. A. Harvey, K. Mokránová, R. Raja, M. Zoppi), Cultural heritage damage assessment at Khirbet al-Khalde in a longue durée perspective: the impact of legacy data and multi-scalar methodologies on survey results, in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 12 (2) (2024), pp. 172-195.
Palmyra during its ‘dark ages’ (AD 273–750): a historical and archaeological reassessment, in R. Raja (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra, Oxford 2024, pp. 113-128.
Palmyra and the military: from the Roman period to the Islamic conquest, in R. Raja (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra, Oxford 2024, pp. 179-192.
Urban layout and public space – the monuments of Palmyra in the Roman and Late Antique periods, in R. Raja (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra, Oxford 2024, pp. 321-334.
(con I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, J. Steding), Introduction, in I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, E. E. Intagliata, J. Steding (a cura di). Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds: New perspectives on invisible agents and dynamics, Oxford 2024, pp. ix–xv.
Seeking the invisible through legacy data. Notes on the use of archives for the study of circular economies in the past, in I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, E. E. Intagliata, J. Steding (a cura di), Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds: New perspectives on invisible agents and dynamics, Oxford 2024, pp. 131-142.
(con C. Boschetti, N. Schibille, C. Harvey, R. Raja), Broken glass on the Via Nova Traiana: Roman, Late Antique, and Early Islamic activity at Khirbet al Khalde (south Jordan), in Antiquity (2025), pp. 1-18.
(con A. De Lisi, G. Bolzoni, B. Di Presa, G. Strapazzon, L. Zamboni), Risultati della prima campagna di indagini archeologiche a Sesto Calende (VA) – Oratorio di San Vincenzo, in FOLD&R. Fasti Online Documents & Research, Italy 605 (2025).
(con A. Bernardoni), La Statale ad Angera (VA): verso il riordino dell’Archivio Angera a quarant’anni dalla conclusione degli scavi, in LANX. Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici – Università degli Studi di Milano 33 (2025), pp. 90-101.
(con A. Bacchetta), The Peristyle Building, in E.E. Intagliata (a cura di). The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project. Selected essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 12), Turnhout 2025, pp. 47-90.
(con D. Bursich, G. Rossi), The Southwest Quarter. An Overview of the Evidence and Preliminary Observations Based on the Results of the 2007 Survey, in E.E. Intagliata (a cura di). The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project. Selected essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 12), Turnhout 2025, pp. 21-46.
Setting the Scene: the Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project and the Purpose of this Book, in E.E. Intagliata (a cura di). The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project. Selected essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 12), Turnhout 2025, pp. 11-20.
(con F. Slavazzi), Maria Teresa Grassi and her work, in E.E. Intagliata (a cura di), The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project. Selected essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 12), Turnhout 2025, pp. 1-10.
Preface, in E. E. Intagliata (a cura di). The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project. Selected essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History), Turnhout 2025, p. xvii.
(con C.A. Harvey, R. Raja), Asserting control through water in the Roman period: the evidence from southern Jordan and the case of Khirbet al-Khalde, in American Journal of Archaeology 129(2) (2025), pp. 203-218.
(con C. A. Harvey, R. Raja), Preface and acknowledgements, in C. A. Harvey, E. E. Intagliata, and R. Raja (a cura di). Khirbet al-Khalde. Final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, Turnhout 2026, pp. 1-2.
(con C. A. Harvey, R. Raja), Overview of the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023 Campaign, in C. A. Harvey, E. E. Intagliata, R. Raja (a cura di), Khirbet al-Khalde. Final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, Turnhout 2026, pp. 3-28.
(con C. A. Harvey, K. Mokránová, R. Raja, M. Zoppi, Damage Assessment at Khirbet al Khalde, in C. A. Harvey, E. E. Intagliata, R. Raja (a cura di). Khirbet al-Khalde. Final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, Turnhout 2026, pp. 29-52.
(con C. A. Harvey, R. Raja), Ceramic building materials, in C. A. Harvey, E. E. Intagliata, R. Raja (a cura di) 2025. Khirbet al-Khalde. Final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, Turnhout 2026, pp. 157-184.
(con C. A. Harvey, R. Raja), Other Finds – Coins, Metal and Stone Artefacts, Metal Slag, Crucibles, and Coral, in C. A. Harvey, E. E. Intagliata, R. Raja (a cura di), Khirbet al-Khalde. Final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023, Turnhout 2026, pp. 207-214.
What’s new in Palmyra? Notes on housing, society, and the role of the city after the 3rd century AD crisis, in E.H. Seland, R. Raja, Palmyra,the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis. Zooming in and Scaling up from the Evidence (Oriens et Occidens, 46). Stuttgart, in corso di stampa, pp. 298-316.
Recensioni
Recensione a M. Karambinis, The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times. An archaeological survey (Archaeological Studies Leiden University, 28). Leiden 2015, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 2 (2017), pp. 473-476.
Recensione a A.U. De Giorgi, Ancient Antioch: from the Seleucid Era to the Islamic conquest. New York 2015, in American Journal of Archaeology 121.3 (2017).
Recensione a J. Harris. The Lost World of Byzantium. New Haven and London 2015, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 2 (2017), pp. 455-456.
Recensione a K. Winther-Jacobsen, Kristina and Lâtife Summerer (eds), Landscape Dynamics and Settlement Patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Byzantine Period (Geographica Historica 32). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, in American Journal of Archaeology, 123.2 (2019).
Recensione a P. Niewöhner (ed.), The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia. From the end of late antiquity until the coming of the Turks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, in Journal of Greek Archaeology 4 (2018), pp. 486-487.