29649 - Phoenician-Punic Archaeology (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Maria Luisa Uberti
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-OR/06
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Historical sciences (cod. 0978)

Course contents

The Phoenicians in Mozia: archaeological discoveries and epigraphic sources.

Readings/Bibliography

J.I.S. WHITAKER, Mozia. Una colonia fenicia in Sicilia,  Palermo 1991; A. CIASCA - A. CUTRONI TUSA - M.L. FAMA'- A. SPANO' GIAMMELLARO - V. TUSA, Mozia, Roma 1989; AA. VV., Mozia-I  -

Mozia XIII, Roma 1964-2008.    Notes from lessons;further bibliography and teaching materials about excavations in progress will be given during lessons.

The students who don't have taken an examination of Punic- Phoenician archaeology in the 1° univeristy degree will provide for a basi knowledge trough nex books:

M.L. UBERTI, Introduzione alla storia del vicino Oriente antico, Bologna 2005, S. Moscati, Chi furoni i Fenici,Torino 1992; C. Bonnet, I Fenici, Roma 2004

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures. Regular attendance is requested. Those who cannot attend the course for some sound reason should contact the teacher and arrange an alternative program

Assessment methods

Oral examination. The candidate should show a good knowledge of the history and geography of the ancient Near East.

Teaching tools

Photocopies, projector, video projector, overhead projector, geographical atlas.

Office hours

See the website of Maria Luisa Uberti