Archaeologist · Antiquities official · Scholar
Fulvia Lo Schiavo
fl. 1985–2018 · Italy
Italian archaeologist and antiquities official, active 1985–2018. Worked at Florence. Worked with Silvana Di Paolo.
Life and work
- 2007Co-editor, with M. C. Guidotti and R. Pierobon Benoit, of the Florence exhibition catalogue in honour of P. E. Pecorella, Egeo, Cipro, Siria e Mesopotamia. Dal collezionismo allo scavo archeologico, in which the Florence Cypriot collection was shown; Lo Schiavo's own bronze studies fed the catalogue.
- 2007–2010Studied the Cypriot bronzes of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence (collection of 459 Cypriot objects, from Colucci's 1870 gift of 250 pieces and the Cecconi 1902 and Karemfilaki 1903/1906 purchases): a copper tripod stand, whose hemispherical cup was identified by matching inventory numbers, purchase description and dimensions, one of the oldest of its class; a cauldron fragment with bull-protome attachment, near-identical to a fragment of unknown provenance in the Cyprus Museum; a Cypriot 'torciere'; and a fragment of oxhide ingot from the Piazzale dei Sacelli of Haghia Triada, kept in the Aegean collection, which unpublished isotope analyses by Noël Gale attribute to Cypriot copper (LH IIIC).
- 2009Co-editor (with J. D. Muhly, R. Maddin and A. Giumlia-Mair) of Oxhide Ingots in the Central Mediterranean (A. G. Leventis Foundation and CNR Rome); in 2018 co-editor with A. Giumlia-Mair of Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Mediterranean Islands (in honour of Maddin and Karageorghis).
RomeGiven 2025
- 2010Co-wrote with Marco Bettelli 'La raccolta del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia del collezionismo di antichità cipriote in Italia' (Bettelli: collections in Italy; Lo Schiavo: the Superintendency's side and the bronzes).
- 2011–2018Soldi 2025 says the study of the Florence Cypriot collection 'was originally promoted by Dr Fulvia Lo Schiavo (formerly Superintendent Archaeologist of Tuscany)' and coordinated by Mario Iozzo and Silvana Di Paolo.
FlorenceSoldi 2025
Connections
4 peopleScholarship
- Catalogued the collection of P. E. Pecorellaprobably2007
- Wrote with M. Bettelliprobably2010
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Silvana Di Paolo2007–2012
- Worked with Mario Iozzoprobably2011
Sources
- 1.M. Bettelli, F. Lo Schiavo (2010). “La raccolta del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia del collezionismo di antichità cipriote in Italia”. Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology, 85-94. Florence University Press.
- 2.M. C. Guidotti (ed.), F. Lo Schiavo (ed.), R. Pierobon Benoit (ed.) (2007). Egeo, Cipro, Siria e Mesopotamia. Dal collezionismo allo scavo archeologico in onore di P.E. Pecorella. Livorno, Sillabe.
- 3.F. Lo Schiavo (1995). “Cyprus and Sardinia in the Mediterranean: trade routes towards the west”. Cyprus and the Sea, 45-59. Nicosia.
- 4.F. Lo Schiavo, E. Macnamara, L. Vagnetti (1985). “Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local Bronzework”. Papers of the British School at Rome 53, 1-71.
- 5.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
- 6.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-.
- 7.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.