Material Text Cultures - Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Foundation at Heidelberg University

Dr. Clementina Caputo

A09

Archaeology
Department of Ancient History and Epigraphy

Telephone: (0) 6221 54 3555
E-Mail: caputo@uni-heidelberg.de

University Address

Sonderforschungsbereich 933 „Materiale Textkulturen“
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Marstallstraße 6 | 69117 Heidelberg
GERMANY

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Qualifications

2016 - present: Post-doctoral research at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany), "Schreiben auf Ostraka im inneren und äußeren Mittelmeerraum" innerhalb des SFB 933 «Materiale Textkulturen» (TP A09). Scientific Director: Dr. Julia Lougovaya
April 2015 - February 2016: Post-doctoral research at the University of Salento - Lecce (Italy). Scientific Director: Prof. P. Davoli
July 30, 2014: University of Salento - Lecce (Italy)/ University of Poitiers (France): Double PhD: “Filologia ed Ermeneutica del Testo” and “Archéologie, Ethnologie, Prehistoire”. Dissertation Sponsors: Prof. Paola Davoli (Lecce), Prof. Pascale Ballet (Poitiers). Dissertation: “Ermeneutica e semiotica in archeologia: per una nuova interpretazione culturale della ceramica vascolare nell'Egitto greco-romano”.
April 24, 2008: Lecce University (Italy): Ma in Archaeological Cultural Heritage. Thesis: “La statuaria in pietra dal tempio del dio Soknopaios a Soknopaiou Nesos”.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

June 20-24, 2012: “Seventh International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project. New Developments in the Archaeology of the Egyptian Western Desert and its Oases” organized by the Leiden University.
November 2009: Ceramic Workshop “The amphorae and common ceramics during the Hellenistic and Roman period” at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) in Cairo, held by Sylvie Marchand (ceramologist IFAO).
September 2009: “Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project” organized by the Centro di Studi Papirologici of the Salento University (Lecce) in collaboration with the New York University and Monash University.
July 2008: “Fourth Edition of the Papyrological Summer School” organized by the Centro di Studi Papirologici, Salento University (Lecce).

REWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

May 2011 - July 2014: Ph.D. Scholarship of the University of Salento (Lecce).
January 2009: 3rd place with a scholarship to the V European Award “S. Borgia” - Edition 2008, Archaeological Section, organized by the Centro Internazionale di Studi Borgiani and the Centro di Studi Papirologici dell’Università del Salento (Lecce).

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2015/2016: Instructor at the VIII Seminar for the Restoration of Papyri, organized by the Centro di Studi Papirologici at the Università del Salento, Lecce.
2014/2015: Instructor for the VII Papyrological Summer School organized by the Centro di Studi Papirologico at the Università del Salento, Lecce.
2013/2014: Instructor at the VII Seminar for the Restoration of Papyri, organized by the Centro di Studi Papirologici at the Università del Salento, Lecce.
2011/ 2012: Instructor for the VI Papyrological Summer School organized by the Centro di Studi Papirologico at the Università del Salento, Lecce.

PUBLICATIONS

2019: Looking at the Material: Hundred Years of Studying Ostraca from Egypt, in: C. Ritter-Schmalz u. R. Schwitter (Hgg.) Antike Texte und ihre Materialität: Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik und literarische Reflexion (Materiale Textkulturen), Berlin/Boston (im Erscheinen).
2019: Dati preliminari derivanti dallo studio degli ostraca di Berlino (O.Dime) da Soknopaiou Nesos, in: A. Nodar Domìnguez u. Sofia Torallas Tovar, Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology in Barcelona 2016, Barcelona (im Erscheinen).
2018: Gli ostraka e l’importanza del supporto scrittorio: evoluzione delle metodologie di studio, in: P. Davoli and N. Pellè (eds.), Polymatheia. Studi Classici offerti a Mario Capasso, Lecce-Brescia, 677-701.
2018: with J.M.S. Cowey, Ceramic Supports and Their Relation to Texts in Two Groups of Ostraca from the Fayum, in: F.A.J. Hoogendijk u. S. van Gompel (Hgg.), The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt: New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 35), Leiden/Boston, 62-75.
2017: with R.S. Bagnall, R. Casagrande-Kim and I. Soto, New Evidence from Ostraca for the Dating of 4th century CE Ceramic Assemblage, in: Bulletin de la liaison de la Céramique Egyptienne 27, Le Caire, 195-211.
2017: with J. Marchand and I. Soto, Pottery from the 4th-century house of Serenos in Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis), in: D. Dixneuf (ed.), LRCW 5, Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean. Archaeology and Archaeometry ”, Études Alexandrines 43, Vol. 2, Alexandrie, 1011-1026.
2016: Ceramics Fabrics and Shapes in: R. Ast and R.S. Bagnall (eds.), Amheida 3. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2: Greek Texts from 2008-2013 Seasons, New York, 62-88.
2014: Amheida/Trimithis (Dakhla Oasis): results from a pottery survey in Area 11, in: Bulletin de la liaison de la Céramique Egyptienne 24, 163-177.
2012: Una collezione privata nel Museo Papirologico dell'Università del Salento, in: Studi di Egittologia e Papirologia 9, 47-66.
2012: Catalogo delle terrecotte figurate, in: M. Capasso and P. Davoli (eds.), Soknopaiou Nesos Project I (2003-2009), Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma, 363-375.

CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES

Oct. 19, 2018: "Fitting Text to the Object: Some Unusual Examples from the Theban Area". Paper presented at the Bilateral Workshop mit dem SFB 980 "Episteme in Bewegung": "Aus dem Rahmen gefallen". Unknventionelle Materialisierung von Text/Geschriebenem/Wissen".
2017: Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies. Conference organized with J. Lougovaya at the University of Heidelberg, October 12-14, 2017.
2017: Byzantine Pottery Assemblages from Soknopaiou Nesos (Fayum, Egypt). Paper presented at LRCW 6. Sixth International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry Land and Sea: Pottery Routes, Agrigento, May 24-28.
2016: Ceramic Supports and Their Relation to Texts in Some Ostraka-Groups from the Fayum. Paper presented at the Conference "Beyond Papyri: The Materiality of Ancient Texts", Leiden, October 27-29.
2016: The Importance of the Writing Support in Studying Ostraca: the oBerlin from Soknopaiou Nesos. Paper presented at the "28th International Congress of Papyrology", Barcelona, August 1-6.
2016: The main ceramic typologies at Dime/Soknopaiou Nesos (Fayoum, Egypt). Paper presented at "The Levantine Ceramic Project 2016, Workshop 2. Pottery of Egypt in the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods", Danish Institute of Archaeology, Athens, July 14-15.
2016: La réutilisation des tessons comme support d'écriture: les ostraca. Paper presented at the International Conference "The Materiality of Texts between Lebenswelt and Lesewelt", University of Zürich, June 9-11.
2014: with J. Marchand-I. Soto, Pottery from the 4th-century house of Serenos in Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis). Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry, LRCW 5 (Alexandria, 6-10 April).
2014: “Imports in Amheida (Oasi di Dakhla - Egitto)”. Paper presented at the “Great Oasis Conference, Oasis Magna: Kharga and Dakhla Oases in Antiquity”, Final Congress Partner University Fund (PUF), ISAW-New York University-Limoges, September 19-20.

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCES

2009 - present: Archaeological Mission of New York University at Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt). Position: Draftswomen and Ceramologist. Director: Prof. R. S. Bagnall; Field Director: P. Davoli.
2008: Archaeological Mission of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) at Kysis/Douch (Kharga Oasis, Egypt). Position: Draftswomen and Ceramologist, under the supervision of Sylvie Marchand. Director: Prof. M. Wuttman.
2006 - present: Archaeological Mission of Salento University (Lecce) at Dime/Soknopaiou Nesos – Fayyum, Egypt. Position: Draftswomen and Ceramologist. Directors: Prof. M. Capasso and P. Davoli.
2005: Archaeological Excavations of Salento University (Lecce) in the Messapic site of Cavallino (Italy). Position: Draftswomen and ceramologist. Director: Prof. F. D'Andria.