Ilaria Calini

Ilaria Calini is a Post-doc researcher at the École Pratique des Hautes Études / Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, working on cultural interactions in the Assyrian world and between Assyria and ancient Greece. An associate member of the research team UMR 8210 - AnHiMA (Anthropology and History of the Ancient Worlds), she has been a member of the French-Syrian Archaeological Mission to Terqa and Tell Masaïkh since 2008, and excavated at Tell Masaïkh/Kar-Assurnaṣirpal between 2008 and 2010. Since 2010 she has been working on the Assyrian provincial capital of Qasr Shemamok/Kilizu, in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as on other sites in the region. She is responsible for the study and publication of the ceramic material.