SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

1) Knowledge of the most relevant contents and methodologies of Semitic epigraphy; 2) groundings of Aramaic epigraphy from Mesopotamia (Late Antiquity, 1st-3rd cent. AD); 3) development of reading skills of epigraphic texts in Aramaic language in diachronic perspective. (Dublin Descriptors 1, 2, 3).

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Class lectures.

Lessons will be taught in English.

1) Introduction to Semitic Epigraphy (1 CFU): history of scholarship, a geographical and historical overview on epigraphic Semitic languages.

2) Reading bilingual (Greek-Aramaic) inscriptions (5 CFU): transliteration, translation and commentary of an anthology of texts (1st-3rd cent. AD). Further discussion will take place about their function in the archaeological context.

- J.F. Healey, Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 1-38, 154-161.

- G. Petrantoni, Corpus of Nabataean-Aramaic–Greek Inscriptions (Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2021), pp. 1-26, 31-35, 52-55, 63-67.

- J.B. Segal, ‘Arabs at Hatra and the Vicinity: Marginalia on New Aramaic Texts’, «Journal of Semitic Studies» 31 (1986), pp. 57-80.

- F. Safar, ‘Inscriptions from Wadi Hauran’, «Sumer» 18 (1962), pp. 9-27.

- J. Teixidor, ‘Deux inscriptions palmyréniennes du musée de Bagdad’, «Syria» 40 (1963), pp. 33-46.

- J. Starcky, ‘Une inscription palmyrénienne trouvée près de l’Euphrate’, «Syria» 40 (1963), pp. 47-55.

- M. Moriggi, ‘A preliminary catalogue of the Aramaic ostraca from Kifrin’, «Mesopotamia» 55 (2020), pp. 36-49.

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Texts are found in the STUDIUM web platform (access reserved to students).