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▲{{short description|Franciscan expert in Byzantine archaeology}} {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox scientist Line 6 ⟶ 5: |name = Michele Piccirillo |honorific_suffix= |image=Palestinologo Michele Piccirillo.jpg
|caption= |birth_name= Line 18 ⟶ 17: |field = [[Byzantine]] [[archaeology]] |work_institutions = [[Studium Biblicum Franciscanum]], Jerusalem |alma_mater = [[Pontifical universities in Rome]]; [[Sapienza University of Rome]]
|doctoral_advisor= |doctoral_students= Line 28 ⟶ 27: |signature= }} '''Michele Piccirillo''' (1944–2008) was a ==Life== ===Early life and studies=== Piccirillo was born in Casanova di [[Carinola]], Italy, on 18 November 1944, and joined the [[Franciscans]] early on, in 1960.<ref name=Politis/> In 1969 he was ordained a priest, after which he combined his pious and academic activities, studying biblical and early Byzantine archaeology.<ref name=Politis/> In 1970 he took his [[Licence in Theology]] from the [[Antonianum|PAA in Rome]], followed in 1974 by a Licentiate in Holy Scripture from the [[Pontifical Biblical Institute|PIB]] and a Laureate in archaeology the following year, ===Career=== Starting in 1975, Piccirillo taught [[biblical history]] and biblical geography in [[Jerusalem]], where he had become part of the Franciscan [[Custody of the Holy Land]].<ref name=Politis/> As an archaeologist, he was among those who excavated some of the earliest churches in the [[Holy Land]], which he published without the customary delay.<ref name=Politis/> This helped him position himself as an expert in this field and brought him international support for his projects in Jordan, Palestine and Syria.<ref name=Politis/> ====Church continuity in Islamic periods==== One of Piccirillo's main contributions in Church history was to demonstrate, based on archaeological proof, that early Byzantine traditions did not come to an end with the [[Muslim conquest of the Levant]], but survived into the Islamic periods, a position meanwhile adopted by most scholars.<ref name=Politis/> ====Mosaic conservation==== Piccirillo's interest for ancient mosaics motivated him to work for their preservation, including by co-founding a mosaic school in [[Madaba]], Jordan, which under his guidance became today's Madaba School for Mosaic Art and Restoration.<ref name=Politis/> He went on with a similar project in Jericho in Palestine, centered around mosaic studies and the preservation of the Umayyad site at Khirbet al-Mafjar, known as [[Hisham's Palace]].<ref name=Politis/> Another project of this kind he was involved in led to the building of a large shelter over the remains of the fifth-century Holy Martyrs Church at [[Taybat al-Imam]] in Syria.<ref name=Politis/> ====With Studium Biblicum Franciscanum==== During Piccirillo's work at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF) in Jerusalem, he received his Professorship in 1984, ====Baptism site of Jesus==== The rediscovery of the traditional site of the [[Baptism of Jesus]] with its mainly Byzantine-era remains at [[Al-Maghtas]] must also be credited to Piccirillo,<ref name=lieu>{{cite news |title= Le lieu de baptême du Christ aurait été identifié en Jordanie |location= Stéphane Foucart for [[Le Monde]] |date= 21 November 2001 |via= yalla.free.fr | ===Death=== Michele Piccirillo died of pancreatic cancer on 26 October 2008 in Livorno, Italy, and was laid to rest at Mt Nebo.<ref name=Politis/> == Piccirillo has published dozens of scholarly articles as well as several books, among them<ref name=Politis/> * {{cite journal |last1=Piccirillo |first1=Michele |author-link1= Michele Piccirillo (archaeologist)|last2=Storme |first2=Albert |date=January 1981 |title=LES ANTIQUITÉS DE RIḤAB DES BENÊ ḤASAN |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44088520 |journal=[[Revue Biblique]] |publisher=Peeters Publishers| volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=62–69 |language=French |doi= |access-date=}} *''The Mosaics of Jordan'' (1993), Amman: [[ACOR]], dealing with the entire corpus of Jordan's ancient mosaics *''[[Umm ar-Rasas|Umm al-Rasas]] Mayfa'ah: Gli scavi del complesso di Santo Stefano'' (1994) ['Umm al-Rasas Mayfa'ah: The excavation of the St Stephen Complex'], as main author and co-editor with Eugenio Alliata, Jerusalem: [[Studium Biblicum Franciscanum|SBF]], Collectio Maior 28 *''[[Mount Nebo]]: New Archaeological Excavations 1967-1997'' (1998), SBF, Collectio Maior 27 *''The [[Madaba Map]] Centenary 1897-1997'' (1999), SBF ==See also== * [[Early Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East]] * [[Virgilio Canio Corbo]] (1918-1991), Franciscan archaeologist * [[Stanislao Loffreda]] (b. 1932), Franciscan archaeologist ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}}
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