Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati is an American archaeologist (married to Giorgio Buccellati), who focused her research on the Caucasus and ancient Syria in the third and second millennium B.C.
She organized surveys in Iraq, Syria and the Caucasus, and she has been a member of the Italian-Georgian excavations at Aradetis Orgora from 2013 to 2017 and at Lagodekhi from 2018.
She has written a number of publications on ancient cylinder seals and seal impression iconography[5] Her work on style has led her to establish criteria for the identification of what may be called Hurrian art; it has further helped define major trends in Syro-Mesopotamian art, such as the development of a new attention for realism in the rendering of the human figure.
Combining her interest in stratigraphy and iconography she worked on the many thousands of fragmented seal impressions found in the Mozan excavations so that she could determine the iconographic motifs they contained which embodied a new Hurrian style.
Her work has been recognized in a volume of studies published in her honor,[7] alongside her husband, Giorgio Buccellati.