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Gabriele Puschnigg - Honorary Research Fellow

Gabriele Puschnigg

Name: Dr Gabriele Puschnigg 

Honorary Title: Honorary Research Fellow 

Email: g.puschnigg@ucl.ac.uk 

IoA staff nominator’s name and email address: 

Tim Williams tim.d.williams@ucl.ac.uk 

Profile

IoA involvement:  

Gabi completed her PhD at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 2000. Since 2001 she has worked in collaboration with the Ancient Merv Project on the late Iron Age to Sasanian ceramics from the Institute’s excavations at the city sites and from the surrounding Merv oasis. She is currently working with Tim Williams and other members of the Ancient Merv Project on a two-volume publication on the Ceramics of the Merv Oasis including an accompanying database.  

Over the past years Gabi’s main research topics included Central Asia in the Hellenistic period as well as Sasanian ceramics from the Shahrizor Survey Project in collaboration with Simone Muehl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and DAI). 

Since 2016, Gabi is in charge of the ceramic research of the Franco-Uzbek project (MAFOUB) in the Bukhara Oasis and works together with Jacopo Bruno from Turin University on chronological and cultural-historical aspects of the excavated pottery assemblages. The project, headed by Rocco Rante from the Musée du Louvre, also has links to the UCL Institute of Archaeology.  

Publications

Research Publications

Selected publications: 

‘Merv and Margiana’ in R. Mairs Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Worlds, 335-356. London 2020: Routledge. 

‘Functional Variation in Pottery Repertoires from the Parthian and Sasanian period’ In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies, volume 1. St. Petersburg, 2019, 330-349. 

G. Puschnigg and C. Römer-Strehl, ‘Cooking and dining from the Seleucids to the Parthians’ In Daily Life in a Cosmopolitan World: Pottery and Culture during the Hellenistic Period. A. Peignard-Giros (ed.), IARPotHP Vol.2, Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2019, 537-548 

G. Puschnigg and J.-B. Houal, ‘Regions and regional variations in Hellenistic Central Asia: what pottery assemblages can tell us.’ Afghanistan 2.1 (2019), 116-141. 

G. Puschnigg, M. Daghmehchi and J. Nokandeh, ‘Correlated Change: Comparing Modifications to Ceramic Assemblages from Qizlar Qal’ah, Iran, and Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan, during the Seleucid and Parthian Periods.’ BASOR 381 (2019), 21-40.