Dr. Sara Lopez

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education and Training

09.2019 – PhD candidate in Filologia e storia del mondo antico at Sapienza Università di Roma. Project. Project in Mycenaean Philology entitled “Archivi centrali ed archivi periferici nella Grecia della Tarda Età del Bronzo: il caso delle Households di Micene” (tutor: Alessandro Greco, co-tutor: Lorenzo Verderame). Sapienza Università di Roma. Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità.

10.2018 – MA Degree in Archeologia Orientale. La Sapienza, University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).                    

22.01. 2018 – MA Degree in Filologia, letterature e storia del mondo antico. Dissertation in Mycenaean Philology: “Ἑταῖροι, θεράποντες e ὀπάονες nell’Iliade: aspetti linguistici, ruoli e relazioni”. (supervisor: Alessandro Greco; co-supervisor: Luca Bettarini). Sapienza Università di Roma. Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità.

11.01.2016 – BA Degree in Classics. Dissertation in Greek Language and Literature: “Echi omerici in Saffo, fr. 44 V” (supervisor: Maurizio Sonnino). La Sapienza, University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità.

06.07.2012 – High School Degree (Latin and Greek). Bertrand Russell High School, Rome (Italy).

Other Training Activities and/or Work Experiences

01.01-31.12.2022 – Contract Professor, class of Laboratorio di epigrafia egea. Scuola Interateneo di Specializzazione in beni archeologici UniSa e UniOr (University of Salerno, Fisciano) – Teaching activities (art. 23 L. 240/10).

17.10-21.10.2022 – The ku-do-ni-ja Epigraphic and Palaeographic Project (KEP). Participation in the philological, epigraphic, and palaeographical study of the Linear B tablets of Khania (Crete, Greece), stored in the Archaeological Museum of Khania, under the direction of Alessandro Greco (Sapienza University of Rome) and the cooperation of Maria Vlazaki (Honorary Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in Greece), Khania (Crete, Greece).

12.10.2022 – Winner of Avvio alla Ricerca Project “Non-Scribal Communication and Palaeography: le Masons’ Marks del palazzo di Festòs a Creta”. Sapienza Università di Roma. Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità.

22.12.2021 – Lesson for the MA University class of Civilità Egee. Title: L’impiego del carro nel mondo miceneo: la serie S- di Cnosso. Sapienza University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).

26.06.2021 – Lesson for the MA University class of Civiltà Egee. Title: The Ivory Houses and Petsas’ House. Sapienza University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).

22.12.2020 – Lesson for the MA University class of Valorizzazione del Patrimonio Artistico & Archeologico (prof. Erika Notti, Università IULM di Milano).

07.01-11.01.2020 – Participation to the investigation and digitisation of epigraphic material (unpublished ivory artefact written in Linear A) through RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) – Archaeological Museum of Heraklion (Crete), under the direction of Professors Thomas Palaima (The University of Texas at Austin), Massimo Perna (University of Sassari, CIRCE) and Alessandro Greco (La Sapienza, University of Rome).

23.09-04.11.2019 – Archaeological excavation and documentation activities. Palace of Nestor Excavation (POM), Pylos (Greece), under the direction of Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker (University of Cincinnati Classics).

09.06 -16.06.2019 – The Linear B Pa-i-to Epigraphic Project – University La Sapienza of Rome, University IULM of Milan, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion (Crete). Collaboration in the philological, epigraphic and palaeographic study of a part of the Linear B documentation stored in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, under the direction of Alessandro Greco (University of Rome, La Sapienza) and Georgia Flouda (director of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion) and the cooperation of Erika Notti (University IULM of Milan), Heraklion (Crete).

15.05.2019 – Lesson for the MA University class of Civilità Egee. Title: L’impiego del carro nel mondo miceneo: la serie S- di Cnosso. Sapienza University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).

11.03 – 1.04.2019 – Dalla Tavoletta al Tablet – indagini di imaging per applicazioni all’epigrafia e ai beni culturali – University IULM of Milan. Occasional self-employment for the purpose of preparing technical data sheets for websites, loading epigraphic and palaeographic data and catalog cards on Phaistos Mason’s Marks. Milan (Italy).

21.12.2018-today – The Linear B Pa-i-to Epigraphic Project – University La Sapienza of Rome, University IULM of Milan, National Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum Luigi Pigorini of Rome. RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) Digital Acquisition of the corpus of Haghia Triada cretulae, stored in the National Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum Luigi Pigorini of Rome, under the direction of Alessandro Greco (La Sapienza University of Rome) with the cooperation of Erika Notti (University IULM of Milan). Rome (Italy).

01.10 – 12.10. 2018 – Activities of Excavation, Documentation and Ceramic Lab – La Sapienza, University of Rome. Activities of Excavation, Documentation and Ceramic Lab to the South Slope of Palatino, under the scientific direction of Paolo Carafa and Mattia Ippoliti. La Sapienza, University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).

27.07.2018-today – Collaboration with The Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project, under the scientific direction of Alessandro Greco (La Sapienza, University of Rome), with the cooperation of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens (SAIA), the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion (Georgia Flouda) and the University IULM of Milan (Erika Notti).

27.07.2018-17.08.2018, 24.07.2019-16.08.2019, 3.10.2021-25.10.2021, 10.10.2022-16.10.22 – Study and Survey Campaign at Phaistos (Crete) under the scientific direction of Alessandro Greco (La Sapienza, University of Rome) and Fausto Longo (University of Salerno), with the collaboration of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens (SAIA) and the Archaeological Superintendence of Heraklion (Crete).

04.04.2018 – Lesson for the MA University class of Civilità Egee. Title: L’Armamento miceneo e il duo guerriero. Aiace e Teucro tra documentazione archeologica e riferimenti iliadici. Sapienza University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).

04.2018-today – Teaching Assistance, class of Laboratorio di Epigrafia, Filologia e Paleografia Micenea, directed by Alessandro Greco. La Sapienza University of Rome. Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Rome (Italy).

National and International meetings and conferences

19.11-20.11.2020 – Participation to the conference IAS 2020 (Incontri di Archeologia Sapienza) – Digital Humanities & Landscape Archaeology (online). Title: “Reflectance Transformation Imaging e Lineare B: metodologia d’applicazione e potenzialità interpretative”.

21.11.2018 – Participation to the national conference “ΠΑΝÓΡΑΜΑ/PANÓRAMA, Ricerche italiane in Egeo (2016 – 2018)”, with the paper “The Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project”, in cooperation with Alessandro Greco (La Sapienza, University of Rome) and Georgia Flouda (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion). Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dipartimento SAGAS. Florence (Italy).

28.03-30.03.2019 – Participation as collaborator to the “Colloque International: L’écriture entre Mésopotamie, Égypte et Égée aux Troisième et Second millénaires avant notre ère”, organized by Mario Negri (University IULM of Milan) and Anna Sacconi (La Sapienza, University of Rome), with the collaboration of Erika Notti (University IULM of Milan) and Alessandro Greco (La Sapienza, University of Rome). Milan (Italy).

Publications

1. Greco – S. Lopez – G. Flouda cds, “Scribes Treated as Criminals: Nuovi strumenti per la paleografia micenea (The Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project)”.
2. Lopez cds, “Reflectance transformation imaging e Lineare b. Metodologia d’applicazione e potenzialità interpretative”.
3. Lopez cds, “Review: Salgarella 2020, Aegean linear scripts: rethinking the relationship between Linear A and Linear B”, in La Parola del Passato, Rivista di Studi Antichi.
4. Lopez cds, “Reconsidering Mycenae. Patterns Antroponimici nella serie Au: una proposta di lettura”, in Res Antiquae XIX.

Languages

Italian: mother tongue

English: B2

French: A1-A2

Spanish: A1-A2

Other skills and experiences

IT management of relational databases as Microsoft Access, FileMaker Pro e MySQL.

Digital acquisition of epigraphic documentation and its editing respectively by RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) technology and RTI Builder Program.