Professional profile
Archaeologist | Phoenician and Punic Culture | Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant
She graduated in Classical Studies (with a focus on archaeology) from the University of Pisa in 1998, and obtained her PhD and Specialization in Near Eastern Archaeology from Sapienza University of Rome in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She has been a permanent researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) since April 2009 and currently holds the position of Senior Researcher (since January 2023). Her research interests range from the study of material culture in the Levant between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age (13th–11th centuries BC) to the analysis of storage and transport ceramics (Canaanite jars; Phoenician and Punic amphorae between East and West). Her work focuses on dynamics of intercultural interaction and commercial exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean and Phoenician world, with particular attention to a “decolonial” approach.
She directs the MAECI archaeological mission “Tell Kazel Project (Syria)”. She was Principal Investigator of the CNR Operational Unit within the PRIN2022 project “MAPDAM” (Mapping Damage. Research on the Archaeological Heritage in the Tartus Region, Syria), coordinated by the University of Florence, and is Scientific Coordinator of the Joint Lab SAHT (Safeguarding the Archaeological Heritage in the Tartus Region) (2023–2024). She co-directed, with Giuseppe Garbati, the CNR project TCM (Transformations and Crisis in the Mediterranean). Together with Luca Peyronel (University of Milan), she coordinates the ArCOA Project (Archivi e Collezioni dell’Oriente Antico, www.arcoa.it), devoted to the study and valorization of Near Eastern archaeological collections in Italian museums. She leaded (2014–2020) the CNR project “Cultural identities and commercial dynamics in the Levant and the Phoenician West between the end of the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC”. She has participated in numerous archaeological missions in Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Sardinia since 1997, working at the sites of Tell Afis and Tell Kazel (Syria); Jemjim (Lebanon); Monte Sirai, Nora, and Pani Loriga (Sardinia). She is a member of the pottery team at Pyla Kokkinokremos (Cyprus), a mission of Ghent University, and holds the excavation permit for the site of Tell Kazel (Syria). She co-directed (2015–2025), together with G. Garbati, M. Arizza, and S. Ledda, the research in Area C (“Casemates”) at Pani Loriga.
Since 2024 she has been a member of the doctoral board of the PasapMed PhD program, coordinated by the University of Bari in agreement with CNR ISPC. She teaches Phoenician-Punic Archaeology under agreements between the CNR and universities at the MA program in Archaeology at the University of Milan (2025–present), at the inter-university ACCW degree program of the Universities of Milan and Venice (2025–present), and at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage (2018–2023). For twenty years she was an adjunct professor of Archaeology and History of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the University of Insubria in Como (2004–2025). She also served as adjunct professor of Phoenician-Punic Archaeology at the University of Florence (MA 2024–2026; School of Specialization 2014–2015) and at the University of Turin (2007–2009). She obtained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN), Associate Professor level, for disciplinary sector 10/N1 (2014–2026). In 2017 and 2021 she served as an international expert member of the HCERES Evaluation Committee for the assessment of French national research institutions.
She has been a member of the editorial board of Rivista di Studi Fenici since 2012 and of the editorial board of the Collezione di Studi Fenici. She directs the TCM series published by CNR Edizioni and, from 2026, the editorial series CAPP n.s. (Corpus of Phoenician and Punic Antiquities, new series) within the framework of the CAPP project of the International Union of Academies. She has participated as speaker and invited speaker in approximately forty international conferences in France, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Tunisia, and Cyprus.
CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors
- SH6_3 Archaeology of early literate societies and early civilizations
- SH8_3 Cultural studies and theory, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage
- SH6_1 Archaeological methods and theory, history of archaeology
MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector
- 10/N1 Cultures of the Ancient Near East, the Middle East, and Africa
- STAA-01/E Archaeology and Art History of Ancient Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean
- STAA-01/F Phoenician-Punic Archaeology
Groups & Labs CNR ISPC
Phoenician and Punic Research Group →
Ancient Near East Research Group →
Publications
Highlight
T. Pedrazzi (2025). Reconfigurations in Levantine Amphorae: Tracing Continuities and Innovations from the Late Bronze. In: Botto M., Pedrazzi T. (eds), Levantine and Phoenician Commercial Amphorae between East and West: Patterns of Innovation (16th-7th Centuries BCE), vol. 2, p. 28-48, Roma: CNR edizioni, ISBN: 978 88 8080 748 3, DOI: 10.19282/TCM.02.2025
T. Pedrazzi (2021). In search of Phoenician borders. Debating the existence of a true ‘Phoenician region’. In: Boschloos V., Overlaet B., Swinnen I.M., Van der Stede V. (eds), Travels through the Orient and the Mediterranean World. ORIENTALIA LOVANIENSIA ANALECTA, vol. 302, p. 367-383, Leuven: Peeters, ISBN: 9789042942721, ISSN: 0777-978X
T. Pedrazzi (2007). Le giare da conservazione e trasporto del Levante. uno studio archeologico dell’economia fra Bronzo Tardo II e Ferro I (ca. 1400-900 a.C.). 430 pp., ISBN: 978-884671777-1
