Maria Floriani Squarciapino

Squarciapino studied at La Sapienza University in Rome and was a student of Pietro Romanelli,{{Cite web|url=http://www.gruppodeiromanisti.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FLORIANI-SQUARCIAPINO-Maria.pdf|title=MARIA FLORIANI SQUARCIAPINO (1917-2003)}} graduating in 1939 with a thesis on the topic of the school of Aphrodisias.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ostia-antica.org/past/squarciapino2.htm|title=Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003)|website=ostia-antica.org|access-date=2020-04-20}}(2012) 'Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003): una pioniera dell'archeologia italiana' in ed. Finocchi, P. Le sculture delle terme adrianee di Leptis Magna. Dagli appunti di M. Floriani Squarciapino. (9788890644306) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316076583_Maria_Floriani_Squarciapino_1917-2003_una_pioniera_dell'archeologia_italiana She developed an interest in the archaeology of North Africa in the Roman period, and underwent training at the Scuola nazionale di Archeologi.

Squarciapino became an inspector at the Soprintendenza for Ostia in 1946, where she worked closely with Italo Gismondi, Giovanni Becatti, Herbert Bloch and others. After the publication of the excavations of the Ostian necropolis in 1959, she turned her attention to the Ostia Synagogue, where she directed excavations in 1961–62.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ostia-foundation.org/synagogue/|title=Sacred Space on the Shore: Ostia's Synagogue|website=ostia-foundation.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.laits.utexas.edu/isac/web/OSMAP/OSMAP_History1.html|title=OSMAP History of the Synagogue Site 1|website=www.laits.utexas.edu|access-date=2020-04-20}} In 1966, she became the superintendent of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia and held this position until 1974. During the 1960s and 1970s, she taught at La Sapienza, and in 1974 left the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia to take up a position as Professor of the Archaeology and History of the Roman provinces (Archeologia e Storia delle provincie romane) at La Sapienza, which she held until her retirement in 1987.

As well as her work at Ostia, Squarciapino also participated in excavations elsewhere, including the Roman Forum (1955–57), Leptis Magna, Tell Mardikh (1964–66) and in Albania. A collection of her notes from excavations at Leptis Magna was published by Paola Finocchi in 2012.{{Cite book|last=Finocchi|first=Paola|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QpqIMAEACAAJ|title=Le sculture delle terme Adrianee di Leptis Magna. Dagli appunti di M. Floriani Squarciapino|date=2012|publisher=Espera|isbn=978-88-906443-0-6|language=it}}{{Cite web|url=http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/index.asp?id=21962&view=pdf&pn=rezensionen&type=rezbuecher|title=HistLit 2014-2-066 / Lennart Gilhaus über Finocchi, Paola: Le sculture delle terme adrianee di Leptis Magna. Dagli appunti di M. Floriani Squarciapino. Rom 2012, in: H-Soz-Kult 28.04.2014.}} Squarciapino contributed to the Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale and led the editorial team at Fasti Archeologici from 1982 to 1997. She was president of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, a member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and the German Archaeological Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ostia-antica.org/past/squarciapino-en.htm|title=Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003)|website=ostia-antica.org|access-date=2020-02-10}} In 1997, a special volume of the journal Archaeologica Classica was published in her honour.{{Cite journal|date=1997|title=Le province dell'Impero: Miscellanea in onore di Maria Floriani Squarciapino|journal=Archeologia Classica|volume=49|pages=VII–X|jstor=44365843|issn=0391-8165}}

In 1975, Maria Floriani Squarciapino was awarded the Antonio-Feltrinelli Prize, one of the most prestigious scientific awards within Italy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lincei.it/it/premi-feltrinelli-1950-2011|title=Premi Feltrinelli 1950-2011 {{!}} Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei|website=lincei.it|language=it|access-date=2020-04-20}}

Squarciapino published extensively on Ostia and Roman Archaeology in North Africa, including:{{Cite book|last=Baldassarri|first=Paola|title=Bibliografia di Maria Floriani Squarciapino. In: Le province dell'Impero: Miscellanea in onore di Maria Floriani Squarciapino (= Archeologia Classica. Band 49).|publisher=L’Erma» di Bretschneider|year=1997|location=Rome|pages=XI–XVIII}}

• Artigianato e industria (= Civiltà Romana. Band 20). Colombo, Rome 1942.
• La Scuola di Afrodisia (= Studi e materiali del Museo dell’Impero Romano. Nr. 3). Governatorato di Roma, Rome 1943.
• Il Museo della Via Ostiense (= Itineraria dei Musei e Monumenti d’Italia.) Band 91. Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Rome 1955.
• ed. with Italo Gismondi: Le tombe di età Repubblicana e Augustea (= Scavi di Ostia. Band 3: I necropoli. Teil 1). Istituto poligrafico dello stato, Rome 1958.{{Cite journal|last=Richardson|first=L.|date=1960|title=Review of Scavi di Ostia III. Le Necropoli, Parte I|journal=American Journal of Archaeology|volume=64|issue=2|pages=207–210|doi=10.2307/502562|jstor=502562|issn=0002-9114}}
• I Culti orientali ad Ostia. Brill, Leiden 1962.{{Cite book|last=Bakker|first=Jan Theo|url=https://www.academia.edu/39249914|title=M. Floriani Squarciapino, I culti orientali ad Ostia|language=en}}
• Leptis Magna (= Ruinenstädte Nordafrikas. Band 2). Raggi, Basel 1966.
• Sculture del foro severiano di Leptis Magna. «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, Rome 1974.
• Civiltà romana: artigianato e industria.{{Cite web|title=Civiltà romana: artigianato e industria. by SQUARCIAPINO Maria. {{!}} Libreria Oreste Gozzini snc|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Civilt%C3%A0-romana-artigianato-industria-SQUARCIAPINO-Maria/30249160304/bd|access-date=2022-01-20|website=www.abebooks.co.uk|language=en-GB}}

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