Biographie
Dr. Jacopo Bruno is an archaeologist and pottery expert, specialised on the material culture and pottery production of regions such as Central Asia, north-eastern Iran, and Near East. He holds a BA and a MA in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Turin. In 2017, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Turin in Central Asian Archaeology. He has actively involved in the archaeological activities conducted in Turkmenistan (Old Nisa, 2009-2019), Uzbekistan (Bukhara Oasis, 2017-2024), Iran (Seymareh Dam project, 2014) and Iraq (Tūlūl al-Baqarat, 2017-2021). Since 2020, he is member of the Editorial Board of the international peer-reviewed journal Parthica. Between 2020 and 2021, he was involved in the scientific coordination of the restorations in the Sumerian Gallery of the Iraq Museums, Baghdad.
He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, working on the stand-alone project "A tale of pots and people. An unwritten material history of everyday life in the Bukhara Oasis during the long first millennium", funded by the FWF.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Bukhara Oasis (Uzbekistan)
- Central Asian archaeology
- Material culture studies
- Pottery production in pre-Islamic and Islamic Central Asia
- Hellenistic, Parthian and Sasanian periods in Mesopotamia, Iran, and Central Asia
- Intercultural encounters, exchanges, and transmission of iconographies in Hellenized Asia
Laufende Projekte
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- 2024, Puschnigg, G., Bruno, J. 2024, “Pottery”, R. Rante (ed.), The Oasis of Bukhara. Volume 3: Material Culture, Socio-territorial Features, Archaeozoology and Archaeology, Leiden, 94-235.
- 2023, Bruno, J. “Giardini e parchi reali nelle capitali assire del I millennio”, D. Dani et alii (eds.), Luoghi nella Storia. Concezione, uso e trasformazione dello spazio tra storia, storia dell’arte e archeologia, Torino, 193-207.
- 2023, Bruccoleri, V., Bruno, J. “Timurid Imitations of Chinese Porcelain in Turkmenistan”, in N. Marchetti et alii (eds.), 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Wiesbaden, 917-930.
- 2022, Kurbanov, A., Bruno, J. “Ovlia-Depe: A New Parthian Site in Southern Turkmenistan (Preliminary Report)”, ANABASIS, Studia Classica et Orientalia 11 (2020), 182-189.
- 2022, Bruno, J., Puschnigg, G. “Reflections on Ceramics in the Bukhara Oasis. New Data from the MAFOUB Project”, in C. Baumer, M. Novák, and S. Rutishauser (eds.), Cultures in Contact. Central Asia as Focus of Trade, Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Transmission, Wiesbaden, 277-287.
- 2022, Bruno, J., Puschnigg, G. “Bukhara and its neighbourhood. Reassessing the cultural links of the oasis from new ceramic evidence” in V. Martinez Ferreras, E. Luneau (eds.) "Ancient pottery in Central Asia", Journal Archaeological Research in Asia 31.
- 2021, Bruno, J. “Preliminary report on the Parthian-period pottery from the Italian-Turkmen excavations at Old Nisa, Turkmenistan (2007-2015, 2019)”, Parthica 23, 11-143.
- 2021, Bruno, J. “Parthia”, in R. Mairs (ed.), The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World, London-New York, 56-77.
- 2020, Bruno, J. “La ceramica”, in C. Lippolis (ed.), L’ area archeologica di Tūlūl al-Baqarat. Gli scavi della missione italiana. Interim Report (2013-2019), Sesto Fiorentino, 279-383.
- 2019, Bruno, J. “Between the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia: the ceramic complex of the upper Atrek valley during the Achaemenid period”, in B. Genito, G. Maresca (eds), Ceramics and the Archaeological Achaemenid Horizon. Near East, Iran and Central Asia, Napoli, 109-122.
- 2019, Bruno, J. “Il ritratto del sovrano nell’arte dell’Oriente ellenistico e partico”, in F. Crivello et alii, Intorno al ritratto. Origini sviluppi e trasformazioni. Studi a margine del saggio di Enrico Castelnuovo “Il significato del ritratto pittorico nella società (1973)”, Torino, 33-40.
- 2019, Lippolis, C., Mamedov, M., Bruno, J., Patrucco, G. “Preliminary note on the 2019 archaeological campaign of the Italian-Turkmen archaeological expedition to Old Nisa (Turkmenistan)”, Parthica 21, 115-126.
- 2016, Bruno, J. “Preliminary report on the small finds from the Italian excavations at Hatra”, ARAM Periodical 28, n. 1&2, 277-302.