May a Spinning Top become a Chest? New Insights into the Cultural Meaning of Spinning Tops in Early Iron Age Athens

is Associate Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Milan “La Statale”, where she teaches Greek Art and Archaeology and Classical Ceramography. Her main fields of research are Greek ceramics, coroplastics and iconography; she also deals with funerary archeology, ludic studies and children’s space in the Greek world. She is the scientific director of the archaeological excavation at the Peucetian rural settlement in Jazzo Fornasiello (Gravina in Puglia, Bari), and is active member of several further research projects in Sicily, Magna Graecia and Greece.