Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika - Nata a Roma 08/02/1943, laureata in Lettere classiche alla Sapienza nel 67 con una tesi in Assiriologia sull’astrazione e il naturalismo nelle ceramiche mesopotamiche preistoriche. Già ricercatore alla Sapienza, dipartimento di Studi Orientali, dove ha tenuto corsi sull’arte preistorica del Vicino Oriente , del Golfo, e della Valle dell’Indo. Attività archeologica in Iraq, anche come esperta del MAAEE, e in altri paesi del Vicino Oriente. Specialista in Arte Preistorica del V.O., soprattutto statuette e ceramiche. Circa 50 pubblicazioni prevalentemente in inglese sull’argomento. Numerose conferenze in Italia e all’estero. Recentemente in missione in Kurdistan per conto dell’UNESCO, come esperto di ceramiche preistoriche
Fiorella Ippolitoni Strika recently retired as a researcher after more than thirty-five years at the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” the Naples Oriental Institute, and Venice University. Her doctoral thesis on Assyriology, titled The Abstraction and Naturalism of the Prehistoric Mesopotamian Ceramics from Hassuna, Samarra, and Halaf, and her specialization thesis in Near Eastern Archaeology, on the ceramics of the prehistoric site of Tell es-Sawwan, were discussed at the University of Rome. In the 1970s she worked in Iraq as an antiquities expert for the Italian Foreign Ministry, and in subsequent years she continued her researches in Iraq and other Near Eastern countries on behalf of different institutions. She has also participated in several archaeological excavations in Iraq. For the last 30 years she has studied, catalogued, and restored the Tell es-Sawwan ceramics and figurines. She has lectured extensively on such themes as the prehistoric art of the Near East; the relationship between Mesopotamia, the Gulf, and the Indus Valley civilization; and the Great Goddess of the Ancient Near East. She has published many scholarly articles on Tell es-Sawwan, the Great Goddess, the symbols found on pottery, as well as gender studies and other related subjects in many Italian and international encyclopedias, journals, and publications.
