Annuaire

Michele MINARDI

• • Archéologie de l’Asie centrale
  • Histoire de l'Asie centrale
  • Ancienne Chorasmie
• • Archaeology of Central Asia
  • History of Central Asia
  • Ancient Chorasmia

• • Doctorat (PhD), Archaeology of Central Asia, University of Sydney, Australie.
  • Master 2 (MA), Archeologia e storia dell'arte greca e romana, Universitá degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italie.

• • Co-Principal Investigator, "Shifting the Foundations of Zoroastrian History: a Fresh Focus on Chorasmia” (Australian Research Council Grant DP170101770)
  • Membre de l'Expédition karakalpako-australienne en Ancienne Chorasmie (KAE - Karakalpak-Australian Expedition to Ancient Chorasmia). Field Director & Survey Manager depuis 2010
  • Directeur de la Mission archéologique karakalpako-française en Ancienne Chorasmie (AGKE - Angka-kala Archaeological Expedition)

• Ouvrages Scientifiques (OS)
  
  • Minardi, M. 2015. Ancient Chorasmia. A polity between the semi-nomadic and sedentary cultural areas of Central Asia. Cultural interactions and local developments from the sixth century BC to the first century AD (Acta Iranica 56) Leuven: Peeters Publishers.
  • Bilyalova, G., Yarygin, S., Minardi, M. and Bonora, G.L. 2014. Multilingual dictionary of archaeological terms (Kazakh-Russian-English-Italian), 2 vv., Astana: "L.N. Gumilev" ENU.
• Chapitres dans un ouvrage scientifique (OS*)
  
  • Minardi, M. 2018. “The Oxus route toward the south: Persian legacy and Hellenistic innovations in Central Asia”, in M. Minardi and A. Ivantchik (eds.) 2018 (à paraître).
  • Minardi, M., Betts, A.V.G., Grenet, F. and Khashimov, S. 2017. “A new Chorasmian wall painting from Akchakhan-kala”, in S. Gondet and E. Haerinck (eds.), Acta Iranica 58: 303-322.
  • Minardi, M. 2009. "L' 'ipogeo' di Piaggie. Una ricerca preliminare", in G. Volpe and G. Polverari (eds.), Piagge, Fano: 92-109.
• Directions d'ouvrage (DO)
  
  • Minardi, M. and Ivantchik, A. (eds.) - forthcoming. Ancient Chorasmia, Central Asia and the Steppes. Cultural relations and exchanges from the Achaemenids to the Arabs. Proceedings of the conference held at the Ausonius Institute UMR 5607 CNRS, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Archéopôle d'Aquitaine, 17th-18th October 2016 (Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, Special Issue) Leiden: Brill.
• Articles dans des revues internationales ou nationales avec Comité de Lecture, répertoriées par l'AERES ou dans les bases de données internationales (ACL)
  
  • Minardi, M. and Amirov, Sh. 2017. “The Zoroastrian funerary building of Angka Malaya”, Topoi 21 (accepté pour publication - à paraître).
  • Minardi, M., Betts, A.V.G. and Khozhaniyazov, G. 2017. "Columned halls in Ancient Chorasmia", Iran 55/2: 208-226.
  • Amirov, Sh., Khozhaniyazov, G., Betts, A.V.G., Minardi, M., Toreniyazov, A., and Bekbauliev, A. 2016. “Arkheologicheskie razvedki v gorakh Sultanuizdag v 2015 godu”, Arkheologicheskie issledovaniya v Uzbekistane v 2015 g. Samarkand (accepté pour publication - à paraître).
  • Minardi, M. 2016. "Elite, wine consumption and status symbols in Ancient Chorasmia", Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 22/2: 262-294.
  • Minardi, M. 2016. "New data on the Central Monument of Akchakhan-kala", Bulletin of the Asia Institute 26: 133-158.
  • Betts, A., Yagodin, V.N., Grenet, F., Kidd, F., Minardi, M., Bonnat, M. and Khashimov S. 2017. "The Akchakhan-kala wall paintings: new perspectives on kingship and religion in Ancient Chorasmia", Journal of Inner Asia Art and Archaeology 7: 125-165.
  • Minardi, M. 2016. "The Hellenistic Chorasmian ketos of Akchakhan-kala", Iranica Antiqua 51: 165-200.
  • Betts, A., Bonnat, M., Kidd, F., Grenet, F., Khashimov, S., Khozhaniyazov, G. and  Minardi, M. 2015. "Des divinités avestiques sur les peintures murales d’Akchakhan-kala, Ouzbékistan”, Comptes rendus des séances de l' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (CRAI) 2015/III: 1369-1396.
  • Minardi, M. and Khozhaniyazov, G. 2015. "The Central Monument of Akchakhan-kala: fire temple, image shrine or neither? Report on the 2014 field season", Bulletin of the Asia Institute 25: 121-146.
  • Minardi, M. 2015. "A silver rhyton from Afghanistan held in the Cleveland Museum of Art and its historical context", Journal Asiatique 303: 59-86.
  • Minardi, M. 2013. "A four-armed goddess from Ancient Chorasmia: history, iconography and style of an Ancient Chorasmian icon", Iran 51: 111-143.
  • Minardi, M. and Carandini, A. 2007. "La casa privata di Servio Tullio e la sua Fortuna", Workshop di Archeologia Classica 4: 17-52.

   

  Book reviews / Comptes-rendus:

  • Minardi, M. 2017. For The American Journal of Archaeology 121/1. Review of The Greeks in Asia. J. Boardman, pp. 240. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.
  • Minardi, M. 2015. For The Classical Review 65: 258-260. Review of From Bosporan to Scythian Art. Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia. From Classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity. C. Meyer, pp. xxx + 431, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Cased, £95, US0. ISBN: 978-0-19-968233-1. 

   

   

   

  
  

• Actes de colloque international publiés (ACTI)
  
  • Minardi, M. 2017. “The Ancient Chorasmian unbaked-clay modelled sculptures: Hellenistic cultural ‘impacts’ on an Eastern Iranian polity”, in A. Hardy and L. Greaves (eds.), Proceedings of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) Conference 2016, Cardiff, 4-7 July 2016 - in press 
  • Minardi, M. 2017. “The north-eastern border of the Achaemenid Empire: introducing the Chorasmian Late Iron Age”, in J. Lhuillier and M. Wagner (eds.), Archaeology of Central Asia during the first millennium BC, Proceedings of the workshop held during the 10^th ICAANE, Vienna, April 25, 2016, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology Austrian Academy of Sciences, OREA/Austrian Academy of Sciences Press - accepted for publication.
  • Minardi, M. 2016. “The recent contributions of archaeology to the study of Zoroastrianism in Uzbekistan/Karakalpakstan”, Актуальные вопросы археологии, этнографии, истории и историографии южного Приаралья [Current issues of Archaeology, Ethnography, History and Historiography of the Southern Pre-Aral Area], Ajiniyaz State Pedagogical Institute, Nukus, 22^nd-23^rd November 2016.

• Colloques
  
  • "The Chorasmian Era and the end of Zoroastrianism in Ancient Chorasmia: a re-examination of the available evidence" présentée dans le cadre du colloque A Central Asian trade hub: Khwarazm in the Late Antique and Early Islamic period. Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford, 29 November 2014.

  • "Excavations in Ancient Chorasmia: the Central Monument of Akchakhan-kala", 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI), Geneva & Bern, 22-26 June 2015.

  • "Excavations in Ancient Chorasmia: the Central Monument of Akchakhan-kala in the light of the 2014 and 2015 excavation seasons", 2015 ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 18-21 November.

  • "New data on the Central Monument of Akchakhan-kala in Ancient Chorasmia", 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Vienna, 25-29 April 2016.

  • "The north-eastern border of the Achaemenid empire: introducing the Chorasmian Iron Age", 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Vienna, 25-29 April 2016.

  • "The Ancient Chorasmian unbaked-clay modelled sculptures: Hellenistic cultural impacts on an Iranian polity", European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) Conference 2016, Cardiff, 4-7 July 2016.

  • "Ancient Chorasmia and the Oxus route towards the south", Central Asia and the Steppes. Cultural relations and exchanges from the Achaemenids to the Arabs, Ausonius Institute UMR 5607 CNRS, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Archéopôle d'Aquitaine, 17th-18th October 2016.

  • "The recent contributions of archaeology to the study of Zoroastrianism in Uzbekistan/Karakalpakstan", Актуальные вопросы археологии, этнографии, истории и историографии южного Приаралья [Current issues of Archaeology, Ethnography, History and Historiography of the Southern Pre-Aral Area], Ajiniyaz State Pedagogical Institute, Nukus, 22nd-23rd November 2016.

  • "Chorasmian ritual and funerary spaces: new data and perspectives. Recent discoveries and new lines of research", Ritual Matters: Archaeology and Religion in Hellenistic Central Asia, Berlin, Deutsche Archäologische Institut,  2-4 November 2017.

  • "Chorasmian gods. Images of Zoroastrian deities throughout antiquity", Empires of Faith seminar series. Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 15 November 2017.

  • "Wall Paintings And Modelled Sculptures From Central Asia: On The Origin Of Their Iconography And On Its Transmission. Some Considerations In The Light Of The Evidence From Ancient Chorasmia", From Nisa to Niya: Reappraising Cultural Conduits and Commercial Centres Along the Silk Road, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 6-7 January 2018.

  
  

  As convener, in collaboration with A. Ivantchik:

  • Ancient Chorasmia, Central Asia and the Steppes. Cultural relations and exchanges from the Achaemenids to the Arabs. Ausonius Institute UMR 5607 CNRS, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Archéopôle d'Aquitaine, 17th-18th October 2016.