Anna Maria Bisi (1938–1988), known as A. M. Bisi, was an Italian

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and academic, specialising in the Phoenicians and

Punics The Punic people, or western Phoenicians, were a Semitic people in the Western Mediterranean who migrated from Tyre, Phoenicia to North Africa during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' – the Latin equivalent of the ...

Life

Bisi had a single minded career. She was supported by S.Moscati when she obtained her doctorate and after she published "Il grifone: dalle origini orientali al VI secolo a.C.” in 1965 and two years later “Le Stele puniche,” again in "Studi Semitici" but this time on Punic archaeology. Bisi was made Professor of Punic Antiquities at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1969, and Professor of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Urbino in 1971. Her research focused on

artisanal handicrafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

and

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

, through which she studied the spread of Phoenician culture and

cultural relations Cultural relations are reciprocal, non-coercive transnational interactions between two or more cultures, encompassing a range of activities that are conducted both by state and non-state actors within the space of cultural and civil society. The ove ...

throughout the Mediterranean.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bisi, Anna Maria 1938 births 1988 deaths Italian archaeologists Italian women archaeologists Archaeologists of the Near East 20th-century archaeologists University of Urbino faculty Sapienza University of Rome faculty 20th-century Italian women writers Phoenician-punic archaeologists