Ebla: Nuovi orizzonti della storia

by Giovanni Pettinato

Italian

451 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Giovanni Pettinato was a paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language. His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by P. Matthiae in 1974–75.
Pettinato graduated from Heidelberg in 1968, where he had studied for ten years. In 1968 he began teaching Assyriology at the University of Rome.
Pettinato died on May 19, 2011 at the age of 76. He was an emeritus of several associations, including the Accademia dei Lincei and authored several publications about the Sumerian and Mesopotamian civilizations.