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      Iran Maria Vittoria Fontana       / General Specification
        
                    
     
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     Place birth : Italy
   Office Tel : 0039649913171
   Email : Mariavittoria.fontana@uniroma1.it      More : She graduated with a PhD in archeology and is a professor of Islamic archeology at Sapienza University of Rome.Maria Vittoria Fontana is Full Professor of Islamic Archaeology and History of Art at the Department of Science of Antiquities of Sapienza University in Rome; previously, she held the same role at “L’Orientale” University of Naples. She has carried out excavations in Iran, Jordan and Yemen. The last excavation was at Istakhr and the final report was published in the volume Istakhr (Iran) 2011-2016: Historical and Archaeological Essays (Quaderni di Vicino Oriente XIII), Rome: Sapienza 2018. She is also the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs on both archaeological and iconographic subjects, the latter concerning Islamic productions as well as Western ones that have come into contact with Islam