Elisa IORI

Position
Researcher
E-mail
elisa.iori@unive.it
Academic discipline
Archaeology and Art History of Central Asia and India [ASIA-01/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/elisa.iori (personal record)
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam
Where: Ca' Cappello

Office hours

In-person meeting: every Mondays at 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Studio 2H in the Ca' Cappello building (please contact me via email a few days in advance).

Teaching activity current year

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Teaching activity previous years

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Publication highlights

elisa Iori Ceramics from the excavations in the Historic settlement at Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot), Swat, Pakistan (1985-2017): The Early Historic Phases , Lahore, Sang-e-Meel, vol. Special Volume 2.3 (ISBN 978-969-35-3656-0; 978-969-35-2154-2)
2024, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5082694


Elisa Iori The Rise of the Urban Culture in Gandhara (c. 1400–145 BCE) and the Edge Paradigm , Handbook on Urban History of Early India, Springer, pp. 173-191 (ISBN 978-981-97-6229-3)
DOI 2024, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5079862


Iori E. An Urban Approach to the Archaeology of Buddhism in Gandhara: The Case of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan) in SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 39, pp. 100-125 (ISSN 0266-6030)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5078602


Iori E. Releasing Urban Religion beyond the City Wall: The Spatial Capital of Early Buddhist Monasticism in NW South Asia in NUMEN, vol. 70, pp. 184-219 (ISSN 0029-5973)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5079362


Elisa Iori The Achaemenid ‘Mirage’ in Gandhāra: A Study of the 5th-4th Century BCE Pottery from Barikot , Le forme della città: Iran, Asia centrale e Gandhara. Scritti dedicati a Pierfrancesco Callieri in occasione del suo 65esimo compleanno, Roma, ISMEO: Serie Orientale, vol. 34, pp. 573-600 (ISBN 978-88-6687-219-1; 8866872199) (ISSN 0582-7906)
2023, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5078621


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Elisa Iori is an archaeologist specialised in urban archaeology and archaeology of religions in the Indo-Iranian region.
She was trained as an archaeologist and art historian of the Iranian Plateau and South Asia at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the University of Bologna. From the latter, she received a PhD in "Cultural Heritage Studies" in 2018. Since 2019 she has specialised in the archaeology of Buddhism at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt applying the theoretical perspectives of ‘urban religion’ , ‘material religion’ and ‘lived religion’ to the study of ancient societies in north-west South Asia.
She has conducted fieldwork in Villa Adriana (Italy), Persepolis (Iran), Mes Aynak (Afghanistan), Barikot and Butkara (Pakistan). Since 2020 she has been deputy director of the ISMEO/Ca' Foscari Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. From October 2024 she held the three-year Rita Levi Montalcini research programme ‘Archaeologies of Crisis: Urban and Religious Transformations of Northwest South Asia in Late Antiquity’.

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