Giovanni Pettinato

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Giovanni Pettinato (born September 27, 1934 in Troina , † May 19, 2011 in Rome ) was an Italian ancient orientalist .

Giovanni Pettinato studied theology at the University of Naples Federico II since 1953 . In 1957 he moved to La Sapienza University in Rome, where he studied biblical studies. In 1961 he completed his studies with a License in Sacra Teologia and a License in Scienze Bibliche and in the same year began studying Assyriology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . There he received his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis on the subject of investigations into the New Sumerian agriculture , two years later he received his habilitation there on the subject of texts on the management of agriculture in the Ur III period . In the same year he also acquired the Libera Docenza ( license to teach, habilitation, such as venia legendi ) for the subject of Assiriologia at the University of Rome. At the same time he was a university lecturer in Heidelberg from 1968 to 1970. In 1970 Pettinato was appointed to the Chair of Assyriology and Oriental History at the University of Turin . Four years later he was appointed full professor of Assyriology at the University of Rome. In 1994 he was appointed honorary professor in Heidelberg .

From 1970 to 1992 Pettinato was co-director of the Commission for Sumerian and Assyrian Dictionaries of the Unione Accademica Nazionale and has been director of this commission since 1992. In 1991 he was appointed European head of dictionary projects funded by the world's academies. During the excavations of the Missione Archeologica Italiana in Iraq at the University of Turin, he worked as an excavation philologist (epigraphist) in 1972/73, and from 1974 to 1979 at the Missione Archeologica Italiana in Siria a Tell Mardikh / Ebla of the University of Rome. Between 1976 and 1995 he published the Oriens Antiquus magazine and the Orientis Antiqui Collectio series for the Istituto per l'Oriente of the University of Rome. Pettinato has received numerous awards and honors for his work. In 1983 the city of Florence awarded him the Columbus Prize , and the following year the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him the Prize for Philology and Linguistics . He was also awarded the Humboldt Research Prize in 1984 . The Cornell University appointed the specialists Eblaite language 1985 Senior Fellow . In 1989, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei appointed Pettinato as a corresponding member. He has published more than 30 monographs as well as more than 100 essays, articles and reviews as sole or co-author.

Fonts

  • Texts on the administration of agriculture in the Ur-III period. The round tablets , Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Rome 1969 (Analecta orientalia, volume 45)
  • The ancient oriental image of man and the Sumerian and Akkadian creation myths , C. Winter, Heidelberg 1971 ISBN 3-533-02126-2 (Treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Born 1971, Paper 1)
  • Semiramis. Mistress of Assyria and Babylon. Biography , Artemis, Zurich-Munich 1988 ISBN 3-7608-0748-8
  • Ebla, A New Look at History. Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 1991, ISBN 0-8018-4150-X

literature

  • From Sumer to Ebla and back. Festschrift - Giovanni Pettinato dedicated to September 27, 1999 by friends, colleagues and students , Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 2004 ISBN 3-927552-41-0 (Heidelberg Studies on the Ancient Orient, Volume 9)

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personal data
SURNAME Pettinato, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Troina
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2011
Place of death Rome