- Docente: Gianni Marchesi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Asian and African Languages and Cultures (cod. 0972)
Course contents
1) Itroduction to the cuneiform writing of ancient Mesopotamia. Elements of the Akkadian (Babylonian) language. Reading, translation and historical-philological comment of royal inscriptions from the time of Hammurabi.
Readings/Bibliography
- A. Lancellotti, Grammatica della lingua accadica (Gerusalemme 1962) OR R. Caplice, Introduction to Akkadian (Roma 2002).
- M. L. Uberti, Introduzione alla storia del Vicino Oriente antico (Bologna 2005).
- D. Charpin, Hammurabi di Babilonia (Roma 2005).
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination. The student will have to read, translate and comment selected passages of the texts read in class. Moreover, he should show his knowledge of the basic elements of the history of Mesopotamia before the Persians.
Office hours
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