Dr Angela Pola

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Departmental Lecturer in Etruscan and Early Italic Archaeology, Faculty of Classics
angela.pola@classics.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: BA, MA, Pavia, PhD, Roma

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8023-0652

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Academic Background

I joined the University of Oxford in 2022 as a Departmental Lecturer in Etruscan and Early Italic Archaeology. Before that I was a BeForERC fellow at Sapienza Università di Roma (2021-2022), where I am also a teaching assistant in Archaeology of Preroman Italy. I was also a tutor for the course of Classical Archeology of Unitelma Sapienza, and I spent two of years (2019-2020) as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. 

I studied Classical Archaeology at Università degli Studi di Pavia (BA and MA) and Università degli Studi di Milano (Scuola di Specializzazione), and I obtained my PhD from Sapienza Università di Roma (2016). I spent several years researching Etruscan and Faliscan figured pottery in Italy and abroad, receiving fellowships and research awards such as the Diplôme de lauréate de l’Académie royale de Belgique - Prix Roger Lambrechts 2016-2018. I am part of the Falerii project (prof. M. C. Biella, Sapienza Università di Roma), and I am the responsible scholar for the study of Etruscan figured pottery discovered during the excavations at Tarquinia Pian di Civita (Tarquinia project- Prof. G. Bagnasco Gianni, Università degli Studi di Milano). 

Research Interests

My research is mainly devoted to the study of Faliscan and Etruscan figured pottery and its connection with the late 5th/4th century B.C. Attic production, a topic to which I dedicated several papers and a forthcoming book. My method in the study of figured pottery involves a multidisciplinary approach combining archaeology, archival study, iconography, and chemical investigations, and aims to reconstruct artisanal productions, beliefs, cults, and uses of societies such as the Etruscans and other pre roman populations, where the lack, or total absence, of literature on the subject represent a constant challenge. I recently published the Faliscan materials preserved at the P. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, and I am committed to studying an important collection of Etruscan and Faliscan fragments of the J. Paul Getty Museum for the forthcoming catalogue of the Etruscan/Italic collection. Currently, my research focuses on the recontextualization of figured vases from old excavations and the analysis of the uses and functions of figured pottery (Attic imports and locally produced specimens) among different populations of Preroman Italy, with a primary focus on the Ager Faliscus and on the Ligurian territory.

Research Keywords

Etruscan and Italic Art and archaeology; Etruscan and Faliscan figured pottery; Iconography; Craftsmanship in pre-Roman Italy: productive dynamics and social contexts; Attic figured pottery in the Etruscan-Italic area

Teaching

Etruscan Italy, 900-300 BC; Roman Archaeology & Art, 50 BC - AD 50; Art under the Roman Empire 14-337 AD.

Publications

Full Publications: Dr Angel Pola full list of Publications October 2022

Selected Publications:
 

  1. A. Pola – R. Wallace, A dipinto on a Faliscan Red-Figure kylix, Glotta, vol. 98, n. I, 2022, pp. 253-262.

  1. A. Pola, Coast to coast. Da Philadelphia a Berkeley. Alcune tombe falische al P. A. Hearst  Museum of Anthropology, in M.C. Biella-J. Tabolli, Lo strano caso di Francesco Mancinelli Scotti, Milano 2021, pp. 514-586. 
  1. A. Pola, The Adonis Painter: a Faliscan Red-Figure Painter and his group, in "Archeologia Classica" LXIX, 2018, pp. 635-655.
  1. A. Pola, Importazioni falische in sepolture liguri: i più antichi vasi figurati falisci della necropoli preromana di Genova, G. Amabili- S. Pesce (eds), I Liguri e Roma. Un popolo tra archeologia e storia, in G. Amabili- S. Pesce (eds), I Liguri e Roma. Un popolo tra archeologia e storia, “Studi e ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina”, Quasar Editrice, Roma 2021, pp. 323-331.
  1. A. Pola, Nuove acquisizioni per una definizione dell'opera del P. di Del Chiaro e del Gruppo di Nepi, in C. Lambrugo et Alii (eds), Omaggio a Giorgio Bejor (Materia e Arte 7), Sesto Fiorentino 2020, pp. 260-264.
  1. A. Pola, Ferrandes A., Nonnis D., Da Falerii a Roma? A proposito di un frammento di kylix a figure rosse dalle pendici nord-orientali del Palatino, in Scienze dell’Antichità 2021, pp. 89-121.
  1. A. Pola, Dal saggio dell’edificio B. Novità per lo studio della ceramica figurata a Tarquinia, in G. Bagnasco Gianni (ed.), "Mura Tarquiniesi. Riflessioni in margine alla città", Aristonothos, Vol. 14, 2018, pp. 267-310.
  1. A. Pola, Il Pittore di Civita Castellana 8238 e la pianificazione di un rapimento su uno stamnos falisco a figure rosse del museo di Grosseto, in "Scienze dell’antichità" 23.1, 2017, pp. 195-208
  1. A. Pola, Album fotografici ed ispirazione artistica. Le pubblicazioni archeologiche degli anni Venti-Trenta del Novecento e le fonti di ispirazione degli artisti neo-etruschi, in G. Bagnasco Gianni (ed.), Fascino etrusco nel primo Novecento, conversando di arti e storia delle arti, Atti dell’incontro di studio. Milano, Università degli Studi (7 /10/ 2015), Milano 2016, pp. 51- 109.