- List of contributors –
xxxviMediterranean between 14th and 8th Century BC: Mining and metallurgical spheres (Oxford 1995) and, I
metalli nel mondo antico. Introduzione all’archeometallurgia (new edition) (Rome-Bari 2010).
Margarita Gleba obtained her PhD from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
at Bryn Mawr College (USA). Her principal fi elds of research are pre-Roman Italy and textile
archaeology. She has excavated at Poggio Civitate di Murlo (Siena, Tuscany), Campo della Fiera
(Orvieto, Umbria), Cavallino (Lecce, Puglia), Poggio delle Civitelle (San Venanzo, Umbria),
as well as in Turkey and Ukraine. She was research project manager at the Centre for Textile
Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and has recently completed a Marie Curie Intra-
European Research Fellowship at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London,
UK. She is the author of Textile Production in pre-Roman Italy (Oxbow 2008) and co-editor of
Dressing the Past (Oxbow 2008), Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion. Studies in Honour of
Jean MacIntosh Turfa (Brill 2009), Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities (Oxbow
2011) and Textiles and Textile Production in Europe from Prehistory to AD 400 (Oxbow 2012). She is
now the recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant for the study of ancient textiles.
Elisabetta Govi is Associate Professor in Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the Università
degli Studi di Bologna, where she teaches Etruscan archaeology and epigraphy and Italic
archaeology. Since 1988 she has been responsible for archaeological excavations in the Etruscan
city of Marzabotto, and is currently excavating the recently discovered urban temple. Her research
interests include the urbanism and Etruscan architecture of the Po Region, and domestic and
sacred architectonics, in the broader context of the development of Tyrrhenian Etruria and its
commercial and cultural contacts with Etruria Padana. In 2010, together with G. Sassatelli, she
prepared the fi nal report on the excavation of House 1, Regio IV-insula 2 of Marzabotto. Another
research interest is the stone sculpture of fi fth-century Bologna analyzed from the viewpoint of
funerary ideology. She also studies funerary ritual of the sixth–fi fth centuries at Bologna (especially
in the Certosa necropolis) and Spina. She studies the diffusion of Etruscan writing in the Po region,
and has published a book on Attic imports in Bologna: La ceramica attica a vernice nera di Bologna
(Bologna 1994). She is a member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi e Italici, and has collaborated
with museums and cultural heritage agencies in the region.
Jean Gran-Aymerich was born in Barcelona. He holds the Doctorat d’état from the Sorbonne, and
is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que (CNRS) in Paris. He is
a member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italichi, and participated in the Franco-
German excavations of the Etruscan site of La Castellina del Marangone in the territory of Caere
(south of Civitavecchia). His research ranges from bucchero pottery to Etruscan trade and exchange
in the Mediterranean, and his current research includes Carthage. He participates frequently in
international conferences, and recently spoke on management of cultural heritage sites at Alésia in
France and La Castellina (Italy) at the conference “Patrimoine et bonne gouvernance en Tunisie”
(Tunis, July 2012). His publications include: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Louvre 20 (1982) and
Louvre 23 (1992); Malaga phénicienne et punique. Recherches franco espagnoles 1981–1988, 1991
(received the Prix R. Dusseigneur 1986 of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres); La
Castellina a sud di Civitavecchia: origini ed eredità. Origines protohistoriques et évolution d’un habitat
étrusque (2011); “Gli Etruschi fuori d’Etruria occidentale et dans l’Ouest de l’Europe,” in Votives,
Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion. Studies in Honour of Jean MacIntosh Turfa, (M. Gleba, H.
Becker eds, Leiden-Boston 2009) 15–41; “La presencia etrusca en Cartago y el circulo del Estrecho
su relacion con las navegaciones en el Mediterraneo occidental durante los siglos VII–V, y el
Libyae lustrare extrema. Realidad y literatura en la visi grecoromana de Africa,” Estudios en honor del
profesor Jehan Desanges (J. M. Candau Moron, F. J. Gonzalez Ponce, A. L. Chavez Reino eds, Séville
2009) 1–32.