Simonetta Ponchia

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Simonetta Ponchia is an Italian Assyriologist who teaches at the University of Verona (Department of Cultures and Civilizations) and specializes in the literature and history of the Assyrian Empire .

Career

Simonetta Ponchia studied classical literature at the University of Padua , where she completed her master's degree in 1982. In 1990 a study visit to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore followed . In 1992 the doctorate at the University of Naples "L'Orientale " with the thesis "Strumenti retorici nelle iscrizioni reali assire". From 2001 to 2005 she took part in the Italian excavations in Qatna .

Since 2001 she has been professore associato at the University of Verona .

Research priorities

  • History of Mesopotamia and Syria in the first millennium BC Chr.
  • Mesopotamian historiography
  • Mesopotamian literature
  • Cultural contacts and cultural transfer

Memberships and functions

  • Chair of the Melammu Project (since 2017)
  • Member of the scientific committee of the journal Kaskal (since 2004)

Publications (selection)

  • S. Ponchia: Mountain routes in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (part I). In: KASKAL. Volume 1, 2004, pp. 139-178.
  • S. Ponchia: Mountain routes in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (part II). In: State Archives of Assyria Bulletin. Volume 15, 2006, pp. 193-271.
  • S. Ponchia, M. Luukko: The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal, State Archive of Assyria. Cuneiform Texts 8 (The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project). Winona Lake 2013.
  • S. Ponchia: Routes through the Mountains: Confrontations and Contacts between the Kingdom of Urartu and the Syro-Mesopotamian Regions in the 9th-7th centuries BC. In: O. Kunduraci and A. Aytaç (eds.): IX International Turkic Culture, Art and Protection of Cultural Heritage Symposium Activity - Verona September 2015. Baku 2016, pp. 3–9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. In: http://www.dtesis.univr.it/documenti/Persona/curr/curr356138.pdf . Retrieved March 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The Melammu Project -. Board. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ponchia, Simonetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Assyriologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century