Sebastiano Tusa

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Sebastiano Tusa (left, 2012)
Two of the rams in the museum

Sebastiano Tusa (born August 2, 1952 in Palermo , † March 10, 2019 in Bishoftu , Ethiopia ) was an Italian archaeologist and cultural politician.

Life

Sebastiano Tusa was a son of the archaeologist Vincenzo Tusa . He studied literature and paleontology at the University of Rome . From 1993 he worked as a civil servant in the regional administration of Sicily and was responsible for the public antiquities in the province of Trapani and from 2004 for the marine archeology of the province. In April 2018 he replaced Vittorio Sgarbi as assessore ai Beni Culturali della Regione Siciliana (Minister of Culture of the region).

From its establishment in 2004, Tusa headed the Soprintendenza del Mare and built this monument protection agency for the region of Sicily for the research, protection and management of the cultural heritage under water. He declined for the call to a Department of the University of Cagliari from. In cooperation and a. With selected recreational diving clubs, the authority has since managed to identify 27 archaeological underwater parks. This made it possible to curb the wild wreck diving and the theft of antiquities and to contribute to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage .

Tusa carried out field research and took up teaching positions as a lecturer in marine archeology at the University of Palermo , based in Trapani , and in paleontology at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples and at the University of Bologna . In 2015/16 and again in the summer semester of 2017, he was visiting professor at the University of Marburg .

Since the beginning of his scientific career, Tusa has been researching the Battle of the Aegatic Islands , which led to the First Punic War in 241 BC. Ended, and initially relocated the scene north of the island of Levanzo . Since 2004, 240 km² of seabed have been searched with underwater robots and 13 bronze rams as well as ancient helmets and amphorae from the 3rd century BC have been searched . BC salvaged. The finds are exhibited in an abandoned tuna factory on Favignana that has been converted into a museum .

In 2008 Tusa and Folco Quilici produced a documentary about the early history of the island of Pantelleria . From 2010 he was an honorary member of the Associazione Nazionale Archeologi (ANA). The traveling exhibition he designed, Sunk in the Sea: Sicily and Underwater Archeology , was a guest at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn in 2017 .

In 2012 Tusa was a candidate for the Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia party in the local elections in Palermo.

Tusa was a passenger on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 , which crashed on March 10, 2019. He was on his way to a UNESCO conference in Malindi , Kenya .

Fonts (selection)

  • La preistoria nel territorio di Trapani . Marsilio, 1990
  • Mozia . Publisicula, 1990
  • Sicilia preistorica . Dario Flaccovio, 1994, ISBN 88-7758-227-8
  • La Sicilia nella preistoria . Sellerio, 1999, ISBN 88-389-1440-0
  • Archeologia e storia nei mari di Sicilia . Magnus, 2010, ISBN 978-88-7057-252-0
  • Selinunte . L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2011, ISBN 978-88-8265-592-1
  • with Jeffrey Royal : The landscape of the naval battle at the Egadi Islands (241 BC) , in: Journal of Roman Archeology , vol. 25, 2012, pp. 7-48 PDF
  • Sicilia archeologica . Edizioni di Storia e Studi Sociali, 2015, ISBN 978-88-99168-05-6
  • Primo Mediterraneo. Meditazioni sul mare più antico della storia . Edizioni di Storia e Studi Sociali, 2016
  • I popoli del Grande Verde. Il Mediterraneo al tempo dei faraoni . Edizioni di Storia e Studi Sociali, 2018

Translations

  • with George Fletcher: Sunken Antiquity: Fascination Underwater Archeology . With a foreword by George F. Bass. Translation by Bernd Weiß. von Zabern, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4317-6 .

Web links

Commons : Sebastiano Tusa  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastiano Tusa, 1952 - 2019 , obituary at ICCROM , March 13, 2019 (en)
  2. ↑ a b c d Winfried Held : Obituary for Sebastino Tusa . Website of the Philipps University of Marburg , 2019 (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Tusa, Sebastiano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian archaeologist and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2019
Place of death Bishoftu , Ethiopia