Giovanni Pettinato Explained

Giovanni Pettinato (30 April 1934, in Troina – 19 May 2011, in Rome) was an Assyriologist and paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language,[1] His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by Paolo Matthiae in 1974–75.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Pettinato graduated from Heidelberg in 1968, where he had studied for ten years. In 1968 he began teaching Assyriology at the University of Rome.[6]

Pettinato died on 19 May 2011 at the age of 76. He was an emeritus of several associations, including the Accademia dei Lincei[7] and authored several publications about the Sumerian and Mesopotamian civilizations.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pettinato, Giovanni. Ebla, a new look at history. 1991. Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-0-8018-4150-7.
  2. Moorey, 1991, p.150–152.
  3. Web site: Freeman . Tzvi . Is there evidence of Abraham's revolution? - The Big Picture . Chabad.org . 2011-06-06.
  4. Web site: Gabriela Cañas. El investigador de la lengua de Ebla cree haber descubierto un mundo de hace 5.000 años. Elpais.com . 1983-11-25 . 2011-06-06. Spanish.
  5. Web site: Carlo Forin . Auditorium - Tesi e ricerche di arte, archeologia e storia . Auditorium.info . 2006-08-31 . 2011-06-06 . Italian . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721184723/http://www.auditorium.info/articolo.asp?id=199 . 21 July 2011.
  6. Web site: Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Prof. Dr. Giovanni Pettinato. 2011-09-09. German.
  7. Web site: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Premi e borse di studio - Premi del Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione finora conferiti . Lincei.it . 2011-06-06 . Italian . https://web.archive.org/web/20110525013620/http://www.lincei.it/premi/assegnati_ministro.php . 25 May 2011 . dead .
  8. Web site: Anna Barysava . Prof. Dr. Giovanni Pettinato . Uni-heidelberg.de . 2011-05-24 . 2011-06-06.

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