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Scholar

Elena Sorge

fl. 2007–2025 · Italy

Italian scholar, active 2007–2025. Worked with Silvana Di Paolo; wrote with Sebastiano Soldi.

Life and work

  1. 2007
    Published 'oggetti magari comuni ma antichissimi...' Gli arrivi dei materiali cretesi e ciprioti nel Museo Archeologico di Firenze, pp. 28-33 of the catalogue of the Pecorella-memorial exhibition (Guidotti, Lo Schiavo and Pierobon Benoit eds.); in the same catalogue Vagnetti, Bettelli and Di Paolo treat the Cypriot collection (pp. 132-173).

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  2. 2012
    Di Paolo reports that the final publication of the Florence Cypriot collection (459 objects, Museo Archeologico Nazionale) will include chapters on archive documents and on museum display strategies for Cypriot pieces by E. Sorge, besides restoration chapters.

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  3. 2025
    Soldi thanks her for archive help; she is announced as co-author with Soldi of a forthcoming chapter on Giacomo Cecconi's entomological expedition to Cyprus and the acquisition of Cypriot antiquities, in Di Paolo and Iozzo (eds.), Cypriot antiquities in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence (Quasar, Rome). Soldi also says Di Paolo and Sorge have forthcoming studies on the Caremfilaki purchases.

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Sources

  1. 1.Sebastiano Soldi (2025). “The Italian entomologist Giacomo Cecconi and Cyprus: a step towards the formation of the Cypriot collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 93-.
  2. 2.S. Di Paolo (2012). “From Italy to Cyprus and back again. Completed research and ongoing projects”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 325-346.
  3. 3.E. Sorge (2007). “"Oggetti magari comuni ma antichissimi..." Gli arrivi dei materiali cretesi e ciprioti nel Museo Archeologico di Firenze”. Egeo, Cipro, Siria e Mesopotamia. Dal collezionismo allo scavo archeologico in onore di P.E. Pecorella, 28-33. Livorno, Sillabe.