COPPINI Costanza

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow

Adresse professionnelle
Bureau 168G
ArScAn – HASAÉ, UMR 7041
Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie
21 allée de l’Université
F-92023 NANTERRE Cedex








  • La culture matérielle du deuxième millénaire A.C.
  • La poterie de l’Age du Bronze Moyenne et Récente en Mésopotamie
  • Études technologiques et typologiques de la céramique de l’Age du Bronze Moyenne et Récente en Mésopotamie
  • Étude des traditions de la production céramique et de la circulation des modèles culturels en Mésopotamie du deuxième millénaire
  • Étude des dynamiques d’habitat rurales et urbaines de la région mesopotamienne de début du deuxième millénaire à le début de l’Age du Fer
  • Étude de l’architecture et de la stratigraphie des sites du Bronze Moyenne et Récente dans les plaines de l’est du Tigris (Kurdistan iraquien)

Formation

2014: Doctorat, Freie Universität Berlin (Allemagne)

Emplois et enseignement
2017-2018, 2022, 2024-2025: Chercheuse, Land of Nineveh Archaeological project, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies, Universitá degli Studi di Udine.

2022-2024: Chercheuse, Einstein Center “Chronoi”, Freie Universität Berlin.

2018-2020: Chercheuse, White-Levy Grant for Archaeological Publications, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin.

2011-2016: Chercheuse, project “Archaeological Research at Tell Fekheriye, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin.


Organisation de colloques et tables rondes
05/2024: Co-organisatrice, Workshop “The Assyrian ‘Dark Age’: continuity and changes between the Middle and the Neo-Assyrian period in the light of new research”, 13th ICAANE, Kobenhavns Universiteit, Danemark.

08/2021: Co-organisatrice, Workshop “Change, Order, Remembrance: Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East”, Universitá di Pisa, Italie.

04/2021: Co-organisatrice, Workshop “Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in 2nd Millennium BC Northern Mesopotamia: Contacts and New Horizons in the Land between the Tigris and the Zagros”, 12th ICAANE, Universitá di Bologna, Italie.

06/2019: Co-organisatrice, International Congress “Broadening Horizons 6. Bridging the gap: disciplines, times and spaces in dialogue”, Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne.

04/2018: Co-organisatrice, Workshop “Dark Ages”? Identifying Markers of Transition in Mesopotamia and the Near East on a Diachronic Scale”, 11th ICAANE, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit.t, Munich, Allemagne.

06/2017: Co-organisatrice, International Congress “Broadening Horizons 5. Cultures in contact”, Universitá degli Studi di Udine, Italie.

Direction de projets scientifiques
2018-2020 : “The Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlement and Ceramic Production at Tell Bari and Tell Bazi“ White-Levy Grant for Archaeological Publications.

Missions archéologiques (Syrie et Iraq)

2025 – en cours: Nimrud Lower Town Archaeological Project (NiLTAP). Dir. Daniele Morandi Bonacossi et Francesca Simi.

2021 – en cours: Revitaliser la valorisation du patrimoine arch.ologique del’Irak, UMR 8068 TEMPS), CNRS, Paris, France. Dir. Régis Vallet.

2019 – en cours: Rescue Archaeology Project in the Rania Plain. Dir. Jesper Eidem.

08/2014 – en cours: Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project. Dir. Daniele Morandi Bonacossi.

04/2017 – en cours: Archaeological Survey of Koya. Dir. Cinzia Pappi.

2010-2026: Archaeological Research at Tell Fekheriye (Syria). Dir. Dominik Bonatz.

2007-2014: Tell Bazi Excavation Research Project, Syria. Dir. Adelheid Otto.

2000 – en cours: Italian Archaeological Mission in Tell Barri (Syria). Director 2000-2005: Paolo Emilio Pecorella. Dir. dépuis 2006 Raffaella Pierobon Benoit.

Prix et distinctions
07-08/2022; 01-10/2023; 01-06/2024: Bourse de recherche Einstein Center “Chronoi”, Einstein Foundation, Berlin, Allemagne.

04/2019: ERG Förderung Veranstaltung, Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne.

05/2018: IAA Fund for Recent PhDs for RAI Attendance, International Association for Assyriology.

09/2017-08/2018: Fellowship Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies, Universit. degli Studi di Udine, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italie.

08/2017-08/2020: Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, Leon Levy Foundation and Getty Foundation, New York/Los Angeles. 06/2016: Dahlem Junior Host Program, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne.

2025

Pallavidini, M., Coppini, C., Bach, J., Change, Order, Remembrance. Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the workshop held at the 18th EASR Conference, Pisa, August 30th September 3rd 2021,Zaphon: Münster.

Coppini, C., „Coping with the New: Resilience in Cultural Identity Between the Late Bronze and the Iron Age in Northern Mesopotamia“, inPallavidini, M., Coppini, C., Bach, J., Change, Order, Remembrance. Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the workshop held at the 18th EASR Conference, Pisa, August 30th September 3rd 2021, pp. 191-208, Zaphon: Münster.

Amin, A., Baiz Ismail, B., Eidem, J., Coppini, C., „IN WINTER on THE LAKE. THE 2023 SULAYMANIA-RAPARIN SURVEY IN THE DOKAN DAM SALVAGE ZONE“, Mesopotamia, pp. 109-128.

2024

Simi, F., Coppini, C., Morandi Bonacossi, D., „An Assyrian Winery in Khinis, Ancient Khanusa (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)“, in Antonetti, C., De Notariis, B., Enrico, M., Wine Cultures Gandhāra and Beyond, pp- 123-142, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari: Venezia,http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-816-3/006 .

TAMM, A. — Tell Chuēra. Palast F – Architektur, Stratigraphie und Kleinfunde. (Forschungen der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Stiftung 2, VII). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2018. (34,5 cm, 321, 180 Tfln., 14 Beilage). ISBN 978-3-447-11052-5. 164,–. BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS 81, pp. 115-118

Pappi, C., Coppini, C., „The Plain of Koi Sanjaq/Koya (Erbil, Iraq) in the 3rd Millennium BCE. History, Chronologies, Settlements, and Ceramics“, in Couturaud, B., Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan, pp. 72-83, Presses de l’IFPO: Beyrouth.

2023

Morandi Bonacossi, D., Coppini, C., Gavagnin, K., Ahmad Qasim, H., „Exploring Bronze Age Urbanism in the Navkur Plain (Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Preliminary Report on the 2019 Italian-Kurdish Excavations at Gir-e Gomel“, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ORIENT-ARCHÄOLOGIE 16, pp. 115-173.

Weidemann, S., Coppini, C., Eidem, J., „The 2008 Survey at Qala’at Halwanji (NW Syria)“, Mesopotamia 58, pp. 1-38.

2022

Eidem, J., Coppini, C., A Third Millennium Stone Plaque from Gird Maiwizha (Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan), Ash-Sharq 4, pp. 239-252.

Coppini, C., Cyrus, G., Golestaneh, H. (eds), Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Space in Dialogue – Volume 3. Sessions 4 and 6 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6, Archaeopress Publishing: Oxford.

Pierobon Benoit, R., Coppini, C., Palermo, R., Pappalardo. R. (eds), Exploring Dark Ages. Archaeological Markers of Transition in the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic Period, Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden.

Pierobon Benoit, R., Coppini, C., Palermo, R., Pappalardo. R., „Introduction“, in Pierobon Benoit, R., Coppini, C., Palermo, R., Pappalardo. R. (eds), Exploring Dark Ages. Archaeological Markers of Transition in the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic Period, pp. 1-14, Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden.

Coppini, C., „Problems of Transitions in the Second Millennium BC Northern Mesopotamia: a View from Tell Barri (Northeastern Syria)“, in  Pierobon Benoit, R., Coppini, C., Palermo, R., Pappalardo. R. (eds), Exploring Dark Ages. Archaeological Markers of Transition in the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic Period, pp. 15-32, Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden.

Coppini, C., „Fragments of power. The use of pottery and the reconnaissance of the presence of the Middle Assyrian state in the archaeological record“, in Portuese, L., Pallavidini, M., Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in Contact and in Contrast: Rethinking the Terms Ideology and Propaganda, pp. 387-402, Zaphon: Münster.

Coppini, C., „Yezidi Cultural Heritage in the Sinjar Region: An Assessment“, in Omarkhali, K., Kreyenbroek, P., Yezidism: Between Continuity and Transformation, pp. 135-147, Zaphon: Münster.

2020

Coppini, C., „Il patrimonio culturale yazida nella regione di Sinjar: gli edifici religiosi tra distruzione e ricostruzione“, in Apuzzo, G.M., Tesi, S., Pellizzoni, S., Agostini, T., Diamo un futuro agli Yazidi: interventi di cooperazione e nuove prospettive, pp. 59-70, EUT: Trieste.

Coppini, C., Simi, F. (eds), Interactions and New Directions in Near Eastern Archaeology. Volume 3. Proceedings of the 5th Broadening HorizonsConference (Udine 5-8 June 2017), EUT: Trieste.

Coppini, C., „Settling the land: settlements pattern and ceramics in the land behind Nineveh from the Middle Bronze Age to the establishment of the Middle Assyrian State“, in Coppini, C., Simi, F. (eds), Interactions and New Directions in Near Eastern Archaeology. Volume 3. Proceedings of the 5th Broadening HorizonsConference (Udine 5-8 June 2017), pp. 93-109, EUT: Trieste.

2018

Coppini, C., „Tall Bazi: the Nordhang“, in Otto, A., From Pottery to Chronology: the Middle Euphrates Region in Late Bronze Age Syria, Proceedings of an International Workshop in Mainz (Germany), pp. 177-194,PeWe Verlag: Gladbeck.

Morandi Bonacossi, D., Ahmad Qasim, H., Coppini, C., Gavagnin, K., Girotto, E., Iamoni, M., Tonghini, C., „The Italian-Kurdish Excavations at Gir-e Gomel in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Preliminary Report on the 2017 and 2018 field seasons“, Mesopotamia 53, pp. 67-162.

Coppini, C., „The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: preliminary results from the analysis of the Second Millennium BC pottery“, in Salisbury, R.A., Höflmayer, F., Bürge,T., Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 2: Prehistoric and Historical Landscapes & Settlement Patterns, Economy and Society, Excavation Reports and Summaries, pp. 65-82,Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden.

2015

Coppini, C., „Capitolo 10. Il regno di Mittani“, in Nadali, D., Polcaro, A., La terra tra i due fiumi: manuale di archeologia della Mesopotamia antica, pp. 270-288, Carocci Editore: Roma.

2014

D’Agostino, A., Coppini, C., „Life at the edge of the settlement: the MBA-LBA transition at the northern and southern slope of Tell Barri (NE Syria)“, in Bielinski, P., Gawlikowski, M., Koliński, R., Ławecka, D., Sołtysiak, A., Wygnańska, Z., Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Warsaw, 30 April-4 May 2012, University of Warsaw Vol. 1, pp. 385-410, Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden.

2012

Coppini, C., „Changes and Evolutions of Khabur Ware during the Middle and Late Bronze Age: the Case of Drinking Vessels“, in Matthews, R., Curtis, J., Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. London, 12-16 April 201, the British Museum and UCL, London, Vol. 3, pp. 465-472, Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden.

Coppini, C., „Mitanni nel suo territorio centrale: un excursus archeologico“, in Mazzoni, S., Studi di Archeologia del Vicino Oriente. Scritti degli allievi fiorentini per Paolo Emilio Pecorella, pp. 127-146, Florence University Press: Firenze.

2008

Coppini, C., La ceramica mitannica di Tell Barri, in Pierobon Benoit, R., Tell Barri: storia di un insediamento antico tra Oriente e Occidente, La Parola del Passato 63, pp. 245-260.

Coppini, C., „Mitannian Pottery from Tell Barri (Syria): the Common Ware Assemblage“, in Cordoba, J.M., Molist, M., Pérez, M.A., Rubio, I., Martìnez, S., 5 ICAANE. 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Madrid 3-8 April 2006, Vol. I, pp. 477-492, UAM Ediciones: Madrid.