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Patrizia Camatta

June 2026



     I graduated in 2004 in Classical Archaeology, at the University of Trieste, carrying out a thesis on Hittite historical geography. In the thesis I tried to identify the location of the city of Ḫanḫana, combining the study of Hittite texts with the analysis of data from archaeological excavations in northern Anatolia. In 2006 I received a scholarship to carry out an internship at the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. I was mainly involved in the museum's collection of Hittite materials from the Boğazköy/Hattusha excavation.

In 2005 I had the opportunity to participate at the excavation of Tell Mozan with Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati and until 2010 I participated annually at the excavations. The 2007 campaign was only a study season, and I contributed to the publication of the A16 excavation unit, the area of the royal palace of Tupkish. In 2008 and 2009 I was Unit Director of unit J6 digging directly to the side of the monumental staircase of the Early Bronze Age temple terrace.

     
     I started my PhD in 2006 on the study of the temple terrace at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin. The complexity of this stone architecture of the third millennium BC led me to look for methods of architectural study, so much so that I obtained a master's degree in conservation and architectural study at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technische Universität Berlin in 2010. Thanks to the skills acquired, I completed the survey and documentation of the entire stone structure. The in-depth study of the structure allowed me to understand the techniques and construction phases of this monumental architecture that for 2000 years served as a temenos and entrance to the temple area.

                                                                             


     In 2009-2011 I worked on the publication of the Urkesh Global Record of the J2 and J6 units. In 2010 I participated in the excavation of the Late Antiquity and Islamic site of Resafa of the TU Berlin and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut with Prof. Dorothée Sack.

From 2011 to 2016 I worked on the Tell Fecheriye Excavation Project of the Freie Universität Berlin with Prof. Dominik Bonatz. My task was the Neo-Assyrian and Mittani architecture. The war in Syria has unfortunately prevented us from returning to digging in Tell Mozan and Tell Fecheriye.
     




     In 2018 I moved to Regensburg in Bavaria and dedicated myself to local archaeology. I excavated in Regensburg (Roman and medieval times) and since 2021 I have been working for the local Archaeological and Architectural Superintendence. Since 2024 I have resumed working for the UGR dealing with the publication of the digital books of J6 and J2, the eastern part of the Temple Terrace and the monumental staircase and of the JP Area, the digital book that includes the entire Early Bonze Age Temple Terrace.



      See Patrizia Camatta's CV on the Urkesh website.



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