Ida Oggiano

Ida Oggiano

Senior Research Director

+39 06 90672457
Rome
ida.oggiano@cnr.it

Professional profile

Archaeologist | Iron Age Southern Levant and Phoenician–Punic Studies | Phoenician and Punic Material Culture

Archaeologist specializing in the Southern Levant of the first millennium BCE and in Phoenician and Punic Sardinia. She is the director of the Kharayeb Archaeological Project in Lebanon, which includes the Kharayeb cult place, the rural site of Jemjim, and the port of Tell Qasmiye. She serves as Scientific Director of the Rivista di Studi Fenici and is Professor of Near Eastern Geography and Archaeology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

She has participated in numerous archaeological missions and has directed excavations in Sardinia (Nora, Porto Torres), Tunisia (Althiburos), Syria (Tel Afis), and Lebanon (Kharayeb).

She has taught at the universities of Pisa, Florence, Naples, and Rome, and has served on PhD committees in Italy and abroad. Drawing on her extensive field experience in Syria and Lebanon, her research also addresses issues related to cultural diplomacy. She regularly participates in national and international conferences in Europe and beyond.

CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors

  • SH6_1 Archaeological methods and theory, history of archaeology
  • SH8_2 Religious studies, ritual; symbolic representation
  • SH8_5 History of art and of architecture

MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector

  • 10/N1 Cultures of the Ancient Near East, the Middle East, and Africa
  • STAA-01/F Phoenician-Punic Archaeology

Groups & Labs CNR ISPC

Phoenician and Punic Research Group →

Publications

CNR IRIS platform →
ORCID →

Highlight

I. Oggiano (2005). Dal terreno al divino. Archeologia del culto nella Palestina del I Millennio. IT: Carocci Editore. ISBN 978‑88‑430‑3523‑6. (Prima ristampa 2021)

M. Castiglione, I. Oggiano (eds.) (2023). Giving Voice to Silence. Material and Immaterial Evidence of the Female World and Childhood from the Coroplastic Perspective. IT: Roma

A. Ercolani, I. Oggiano (eds.) (2023). Scrittura e scritture. Invenzione, Innovazione e applicazione (Collezione di Studi Fenici 53). IT: Roma.