Publications

Reports

Rosapat 08

KHIRBET AL-BATRAWY III The EB II-III triple fortification line, and the EB IIIB quarter inside the city-wall Preliminary report of the fourth (2008) and fifth (2009) seasons of excavations

Edited by LORENZO NIGRO

Nigro 2012 - ROSAPAT 08.pdf

Rosapat/ Colour Monographs I

In The Palace of the Copper Axes. Khirbet al-Batrawy: The discovery of a forgotten city of the III millennium BC in Jordan

Edited by LORENZO NIGRO

Rosapat 06

KHIRBET AL-BATRAWY II The EB II city-gate, the EB II-III fortifications, the EB II-III temple Preliminary report of the second (2006) and third (2007) seasons of excavations

Edited by LORENZO NIGRO

Nigro 2008 - ROSAPAT 06.pdf

Rosapat 03

KHIRBET AL-BATRAWY An Early Bronze Age Fortified Town in North-Central Jordan Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations (2005)

Edited by LORENZO NIGRO with contributions by KHALED DOUGLAS, BILAL R. KHRISAT, LORENZO NIGRO, ANDREA POLCARO and MAURA SALA

Nigro_2006_ROSAPAT 03.pdf

Books

Rosapat 10

A PIONEER OF ARABIA

Studies in the Archaeology and Epigraphy of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula

in Honor of MOAWIYAH IBRAHIM Edited by ZEIDAN KAFAFI & MOHAMMED MARAQTEN

Rosapat 12

Precious Water

Paths of Jordanian civilizations as seen in the Italian archaeological excavations. Proceedings of the International Conference held in Amman, October 18th 2016

Edicted by LORENZO NIGRO, MICHELE NUCCIOTTI, ELISABETTA GALLO

001 ROSAPAT 12_Precious Water.pdf

Articles

L. Nigro 2025 = “Khirbat al Batrawy 2020-2022: the Palace of the Copper Axes and the North-Eastern City Fortifications”, F.A. Bala’awi - A. Al Oweidi - P.P. Creasman (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (Studies in the History and Archaeology of JordanXV), Amman 2025, pp. 521-540.

Nigro et al. 2025 = L. Nigro, C. Ripamonti, D. Caramelli, A. Modi, “A HORSE CULTURALLY SHAPED AS A DONKEY. aDNA Analysis on Equid Remains From Khirbet Al-Batrawy: on Horses, Donkeys and Trade in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant”, in VO XXX (2025), pp. 1-28.

Nigro 2024 = L. Nigro, Khirbet al-Batrawy. In Archaeology In Jordan 4, pp. 61-63.

E. Gallo - R. Gharib - L. De Vito - G. Cecconi - M. De Marco - L. Nigro, "Khirbet Al-Batrawy in North-Central Jordan: New Discoveries in the Early Bronze Age Palace, 2018-2020": N. Marchetti - F. Cavaliere - E. Cirelli - C. D’Orazio - G. Giacosa - M Guidetti - E. Mariani (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 06-09 April 2021, Bologna, Wiesbaden 2023, pp. 229-242.

L. Nigro, “Paths towards Urbanism in Early Bronze Age Jordan”: S. Kerner - O. al-Ghul - H. Hayajneh (eds.), Excavations, Surveys and Heritage. Essays on Southwest Asian Archaeology in Honour of Zeidan Kafafi (marru 7), Münster 2023, pp. 161-196.

L. Nigro, "Khirbet al-Batrawy": P. P. Creasman - J. D. M. Green - C. Shelton (eds.), Archaeology in Jordan 3: 2020 and 2021 Seasons. The Pandemic Volume, Amman 2022, pp. 29-31.

L. Nigro - E. Gallo, "Khirbat al-Batrawy 2015-2019: The Four-Lines Defensive System and the Entrance Hall of the "Palace of the Copper Axes": F. Balaawi - P.P. Creasman (eds.) Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan XI, Amman 2022, pp. 161-177.

L. Nigro, "The EB IV/Intermediate Bronze Age at Batrawy and Jericho: Post-urban vs. Proto-urban": J.C. Long - Jr.W.G. Dever (eds.), Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age. Eassys in Honor of Suzanne Richard, Shieffield - Bristol 2021, pp. 293-308. [ISBN 9781781797204]

L. Nigro, "The EB IV/Intermediate Bronze Age at Batrawy and Jericho: Post-urban vs. Proto-urban”: J.C. Long - Jr.W.G. Dever (eds.),Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age. Eassys in Honor of Suzanne Richard, Shieffield - Bristol 2021, pp. 293-308.

L. Nigro, A Late Bronze II terracotta figurine of Ishtar from Ruseifah, Jordan

L. Nigro, "Khirbet al-Batrawy", in P.P. Creasman, J.D.M. Green, C. Shelton (eds.), Archaeology in Jordan 2: 2018 and 2019 Seasons, Alexandria VA/Amman 2020, pp. 49-51.

L. Nigro - E. Gallo - R. Gharib - F. Mura - M. Macrì - T. Rinaldi, "An Egyptian green schist palette and an amazonite gemstone from the "Palace of the Copper Axes" at Batrawy, Jordan", in Vicino Oriente XXIV (2020), pp. 1-26.

L. Nigro - D. Montanari - R. Gharib, "Qalet Hamra: a mamluk khan North of Zarqa, Jordan", in Vicino Oriente XXIII (2019), pp. 47-58.

L. Medeghini - L. Nigro, "Khirbat al-Batrawy ceramics: a systematic mineralogical and petrographic study for investigating the material culture", in Periodico di mineralogia 86 (2017), pp. 19-35.

L. Nigro, "The end of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant. Urban Crisis and Collapse seen from two 3rd Millennium BC-Cities: Tell es-Sultan/Jericho and Khirbet al-Batrawy": T. Cunninghm - J. Driessen (eds.), Crisis to Collapse. The Archaeology of Social Breakdown (AEGIS 11), Louvain 2016, pp. 149-172. [ISBN 9782875585264]

L. Nigro - R. Gharib, "Jamaan at the Pass of Bi'rein. An Iron Age B-C Ammonite Stronghold in Central Jordan ", in Vicino Oriente XX (2016), pp. 59-84.

L. Nigro "Khirbat al-Batrawi 2010-2013: The City Defenses and the Palace of Copper Axes": Studies on the History and Archaeology of Jordan XII: Transparent Borders (Department of Antiquities of Jordan), Amman 2016, pp. 135-154.