Patrizia Siclari

Postodctoral Researcher Margarita Salas

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1764-3577
Email: patrizia.siclari@icloud.com

Short biography

My academic training includes a BA in Archaeology (2006) and a MA in Archaeology (2010) at the University of Messina. My master’s thesis, entitled “La villa di Palazzi di Casignana. L’edificio meridionale: materiali degli ambienti 47 e 48” and directed by prof. Gioacchino Francesco La Torre, introduces me to the study of Roman pottery for the first time.

In 2010 I am accepted to the Postgraduate School of Archaeology of University of Pisa, getting a PGDip in 2012, with the dissertation entitled “Archeologia in Piazza dei Miracoli. Gli scavi del 1998: le anfore (III – VII sec. d.C.)”, directed by prof. M. Letizia Gualandi.

In 2015 I am admitted to the PhD program in History of University of Seville. In 2019 I defend my thesis (“Las ánforas itálicas en Hispalis. Áreas de procedencia y dinámica comercial entre los siglos II a.C. y VI d.C.”), written under the international joint supervision of profs. Enrique García Vargas (University of Seville) and Gioacchino Francesco La Torre (University of Messina), receiving a Cum Laude distinction.

From 2022 I am a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow at University of Barcelona, carrying out research about italic amphora trade in Pollentia, especially focusing on vessels found in the supposed macellum of the city.

I have taken part in many archaeological excavations and surveys in Italy, especially in the early imperial-early medieval settlement of Philosophiana (Mazzarino, CL), under the direction of Gioacchino Francesco La Torre (Università degli Studi di Messina) and Emanuele Vaccaro (University of Cambridge), as well as in the Roman city of Blanda Iulia (Tortora, CS), under the direction of Fabrizio Mollo (Università degli Studi di Messina). In 2022 I’ve joined the research team directed by Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, Ma Esther Chávez Álvarez and Catalina Mas Florit, in the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia, (Alcúdia, Mallorca).

Research interests

My main research interest is the study of Roman pottery from Late Republic to Late Antiquity, especially focusing on amphorae as evidence of trade in the Mediterranean.
My PhD thesis aimed to reconstruct trade dynamics between Hispalis (Roman Seville) and Italy from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD, through the study of amphorae imported from the Apennine Peninsula and Sicily. The research focused on the identification of the main production areas of the vessels, as a result of the combination of typological study with archaeometric analysis.

Selected publications

  • Fabrizio Mollo – Valentina Casella – Antonella Laino – Stefano Paderni – Elisa Rizzo – Maria Sergi – Patrizia Siclari – Marco Sfateria (2021): “Gli scavi e le ricerche del Dipartimento di Civiltà antiche e moderne dell’Università di Messina sul colle del Palecastro di Tortora (L’Antica Blanda): un bilancio preliminare (2016-2019)”, Peloro, rivista del dottorato in scienze umanistiche VI, 1: 5-44.
  • Fabrizio Mollo – Antonella Laino – Mariangela Puglisi – Elisa Rizzo – Maria Sergi – Marco Sfacteria – Patrizia Siclari (2019), “Lo scavo nel Foro di Blanda sul Palecastro di Tortora: campagna di scavo 2018”, Fasti On Line Documents and Research (Fold&R): http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2019-434.pdf
  • Fabrizio Mollo – Valentina Casella – Giulia Calonico – Eugenio Donato – Antonella Laino – Mariangela Puglisi – Elisa Rizzo – Patrizia Siclari – Maria Sergi – Marco Sfacteria (2018): “Le ricerche archeologiche nel Foro di Blanda sul Palecastro di Tortora (CS). Campagna di scavo 2017”, Fasti On Line Documents and Research (Fold&R): http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2018-401.pdf
  • Antonio Alberti – Maria Letizia Gualandi – Federica Logiudice – Ornella Raffo – Claudia Rizzitelli – Patrizia Siclari – Germana Sorrentino (2015): “Pisa, Piazza dei Miracoli: materiali dagli scavi del 1998”, Agogè, Atti della Scuola di Specializzazione dell’Università di Pisa, VIII-IX (2011-2012), Pisa, Pisa University Press: 57 – 106, ISBN 978-88-6741-552-6.
  • Fabio Fabiani – Jasmine Bagnoli – Maurizio Cannatà – Marco Casola – Francesco Coschino – Adele Foresta, A – Eleonora Iacopini – Federica Logiudice – Daria Pasini – David Querci – Ilaria Rinaldi – Patrizia Siclari – Fabio Stratta (2011): “Archeologia della produzione: un database per lo studio  dei frantoi nell’Italia romana”, Agogè, Atti della Scuola di Specializzazione dell’Università di Pisa, VI – VII (2009 – 2010), Pisa, Pisa University Press: 7 – 41, ISBN 978-88-6741-133-7.

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