12/2022 – 07/2022
Student representative in the doctoral program Ancient Philosophy and History of Ancient Science

10/2022
Doctoral student at BergSAS (HistAS)

07/2022
Research assistant at ZODIAC – Astral Science in Transformation (ERC)

09/2019 – 04/2022
MA Archaeology and Ancient History (Ancient Near East), Università degli Studi di Torino

10/2020 – 10/2021
Erasmus+ in Altorientalistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

09/2015 – 07/2019
BA Cultural Heritage (Archaeology), Università degli Studi di Torino

Grants, prizes and awards

2025
BerGSAS Doctoral Exchange Programme (mobility grant): Harvard University, Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Fall semester 2025

Frauenfordermittel 2025 FU Berlin (Funds for the advancement of women’s

2024
IeAquAa lPitryiz) e for Best First Article (Runner-up): Pilloni, A. The Astrological Schemes Behind bīt niṣirtu and KI in the Babylonian Horoscopes Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, 11 (1), 2024, pp. 1-26.

Knowledge Transfer of Astral Science in the Late Babylonian Period

Astronomical and astrological cuneiform texts witness to the extraordinary intellectual achievements of Babylonian scholars of the late first millennium BC. This is the result of a process based on celestial observation and mathematical modeling started two millennia earlier.

Babylon and Uruk are the only two Mesopotamian cities in which all types of Late Babylonian astronomical and astrological texts are attested, therefore, their importance lies in their documentation of the knowledge transfer process. The proposed study aims to determine the nature of the local bodies of knowledge through a systematic comparison of the cuneiform sources from all relevant corpora of astral sciences.

Forthcoming
Pilloni, A. Elementi antichi e nuovi schemi negli oroscopi babilonesi. Atti dei convegni Egirro e Vicino Oriente Antichi 2024. Eothen.

2024
Pilloni, A. The Astrological Schemes Behind bīt niṣirtu and KI in the Babylonian Horoscopes Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, 11 (1), 2024, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/janeh-2023-0014

2022
Agnethler, H., Gogokhia E., Jiménez, E., Pilloni, A., Setälä, A.,Eine spätbabylonische synkretistische Hymne an Nabû, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 74(1). 205-222. Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/719980