Research Fellowships
Since 2024 (1st March) University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Department of Cultural Heritage. Title of project: "Fonti archeologiche per lo studio dell’insediamento umano lungo la costa settentrionale del Golfo Persico”.
2022 (1st Sep.) – 2024 (29th Feb.) University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Department of Cultural Heritage. Title of project: “Ricostituzione di un archivio disperso: La documentazione delle attività di studio e restauro condotte a Persepoli sotto il coordinamento dell’IsMEO”.
2019 (1st Feb.) – 2022 (1st Feb.) University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Department of Cultural Heritage.Title of project: “The decorated bricks from the Iranian-Italian excavations at the Early Achaemenid gate of Tol-e Ajori (Persepolis, Fars): a comprehensive archaeological and art-historical study”.
Education
2018 PhD in Cultural Heritage Studies / Studi sul Patrimonio Culturale. University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, Department for the Cultural Heritage. Title of thesis: ‘Early Achaemenian Architecture and Monumental art in Fars and Persian Gulf Region’.
2014 MA in Ricerca, Documentazione e Tutela dei Beni Archeologici. University of Bologna, Ravenna campus, Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Title of thesis: ‘Decorated bricks from the Iranian-Italian Excavations at Tol-e Ajori (Fars)’.
2008 BA in Archeology. University of Tehran, Faculty of Letters and Human Science.
Field Activities and Archaeological Excavations
2022 (26th Nov.-26th Dec.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field director during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR, Shiraz University, ISMEO & University of Bologna) at Tol-e Ajori, co-directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz).
2021 (20th Oct.-3rd Dec.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field director during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR, Shiraz University, ISMEO & University of Bologna) at Tol-e Ajori, directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna).
2020-2021 (17th Dec.-20th Mar.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), virtual participation during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR, Shiraz University, ISMEO & University of Bologna) at Tol-e Ajori, directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna).
2019 (1st Oct.-1st Nov.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), co-director (Italian co-director: Dr. Luca Colliva) during the topographical survey and archaeological studies in the Bagh-e Firuzi area within the project “LoP-Land of Persepolis”. Carried out in the framework of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR, Shiraz University, ISMEO & University of Bologna) at Tol-e Ajori, directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna).
2018 (24th Sep.-28th Oct.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field director during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2016 (23th Sep.-7th Nov.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field director during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2015 (17th Sep.-31st Oct.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field director during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2014 (29th Sep.-31st Oct.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field superviser during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2013 (22nd Sep.-31st Oct.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field superviser during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2012 (7th Oct.-12th Nov.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field supervisor during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2011 (24th Oct.-24th Nov.) Persepolis (Fars, Iran), field supervisor during the archaeological excavations of the Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars (ICAR & Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna), directed by Prof. Alireza Askari Chaverdi (University of Shiraz) and Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna).
2007 (Sep.-Oct.) Qazvin (Iran), archaeological survey and excavation in Qazvin plain, member of the team of the Mission of the University of Tehran (ICAR & University of Tehran), directed by Prof. Hekmatolah Molasalehi (University of Tehran).
Selected Conferences
2022 (4th July) “Pārsa and Matezziš: two Achaemenid institutional landscapes in the Persepolis area?”. Presented at Institutional Landscape of Empire in Ancient Iran. Istanbul, 4-7 July 2022, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
2021 (17 Sept.) “Stonemasons at Work: Re-Investigating the Column Bases of Palace P in Pasargadae”. Presented at on Stones in the Achaemenid Empire: Methods, Theories and Techniques. Berlin (Virtual symposium) 17-19 September 2021, Eurasien-Abteilung des DAI (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut), Tehran Branch and Iranian Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT).
2021 (9th Apr.) “Decorated bricks from Tol-e Ajori”. Presented at Decorated Bricks of the Achaemenid Period and their Forerunners. Bologna, workshop organized within ICAANE 2021.
2020 (2nd Oct.) “Tol-e Ajori molded glazed bricks”. Presented at Reconsidering Babylon’s Ishtar Gate. New York (Virtual Workshop), Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
2018 (16th Sept.) “The methods and problematics of ancient stone workmanship study: stone, the carver and the archaeologist”. Presented at From Past to Future: Cultural Heritage as an Instrument for a Sustainable Development. Shiraz, 15-22 September 2018, Pietro della Valle Iran-Italy academic exchange programme, Shiraz University and Università di Bologna.
7th April 2017 ‘Persépolis avant Persépolis: les fouilles irano-italiennes à Tol-e Ajori’. Presented with P. Callieri. Paris, Louvre Museum.
23rd May 2016 ‘Nascita e declino di un’iconografia. Mushkhussu, il guardian degli spazi?’. Presented with G.P. Basello in Orizzonti. Morfologie culturali dello spazio tra antico e contemporaneo (Ravenna, 23 &24 May 2016), Interdisciplinary conference organized by the PhD candidates of XXX cycle of Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna.
10th June 2015 ‘From Babylon to Persepolis?: Decorated bricks from the Iranian-Italian excavations at Tol-e Ajori (Fars, Iran)’. Berlin, Eurasien-Abteilung des DAI (Deutsces Archäologisches Institut).
Selected Publications
Matin, E. (2024) Persepolis West: Evidence for a Pigment Production Site and Its Connections with Achaemenid Royal-Official Buildings. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 29(2), pp. 262-306.
Matin, E. (2023) From Tol-e Takht to the Persian Gulf: Pierfrancesco Callieri and the Landscapes of Ancient Fars. In L. Colliva, A. Filigenzi & L.M. Olivieri (eds.), Le forme della città – Iran, Gandhāra et Asia Centrale: Scritti offerti a Pierfrancesco Callieri in occasione del suo 65° compleanno. Serie Orientale Roma 34, pp. 195-236. Roma.
Amadori, M.L., Matin, E., Poldi, G., Mengacci, V., Arduini, J., Callieri, P., Askari Chaverdi, A., & Holakooei, P. (2023) Archaeometric research on decorated bricks of Tol-e Ajori monumental gate (6th century BC), Fars, Iran: new insight into the glazes. Journal of Cultural Heritage 50, pp. 63-71.
Matin, E. (2021) L’iconografia del mušḫuššu nel I millennio a.c. Parthica 23, pp. 9-33.
Amadori, M.L., Vagnini, M, Vivani, R., Chiara Anselmi, Askari Chaverdi, A., Callieri, P, Matin, E. & Mengacci, V. (2021) Advances in characterization of colourful residues unearthed in Persepolis West craft zone using microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. Microchemical Journal 167, pp. 1-14.
Matin, E. (2020) The Achaemenid Settlement of Dashtestan (Borazjan): A View from Persepolis.
East and West n.s. 1(2), pp. 333-364.
Amadori, M.L., Pallante, P., Fermo, P., Emami, M.A., Askari Chaverdi, A., Callieri, P. & Matin, E. (2018) Advances in Achaemenid brick manufacturing technology: Evidence from the monumental gate at Tol-e Ajori (Fars, Iran). Applied Clay science 2017, pp. 131-142.
Askari Chaverdi, A., Callieri, P. & Matin, E. (2017) The Monumental Gate at Tol-e Ajori, Persepolis (Fars): New Archaeological Data. Iranica Antiqua 52, pp. 205-258.
Askari Chaverdi, A., Callieri, P. & Matin, E. (2014) Tol-e Ajori, a Monumental Gate of the Early Achaemenian period in the Persepolis Area. The 2014 excavation season of the Iranian- Italian project ‘‘From Palace to Town’’. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 46, pp. 223-254.
