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B004488 - ASSYROLOGY
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Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2018 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-OR/03 - ASSYRIOLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
14/09/2020 ⇒ 04/12/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Mesopotamia cultures presentation with reading of literary passages.
Cuneiform writing introduction and Akkadian grammar’s hints.
Cuneiform writing introduction and Akkadian grammar’s hints.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
C.B.F. Walker, Cuneiform, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1987 (= La scrittura cuneiforme, Roma 2008, trad. it. a cura di P. Corò)
Chapters from M. Liverani, Antico Oriente, Storia, società, economia, Laterza, Bari:
VI: La Mesopotamia proto-dinastica
VII: Il mondo di Ebla
VIII: L'impero di Akkad
IX: L'età neo-sumerica
X: La crisi della seconda urbanizzazione
XIII: L'età di Mari
XIV: Hammurabi di Babilonia
XIX: La Siria-Palestina nel Tardo Bronzo
Capitoli da L. Milano (a cura di), Il vicino Oriente antico, dalle origini ad Alessandro Magno, EncycloMedia Publishers, Milano, 2012:
Introduzione (L. Milano)
Capitolo 8 (M. Jursa).
Stefania Ermidoro, Quando gli dei erano uomini, Paideia editrice, Torino, 2017.
Chapters from M. Liverani, Antico Oriente, Storia, società, economia, Laterza, Bari:
VI: La Mesopotamia proto-dinastica
VII: Il mondo di Ebla
VIII: L'impero di Akkad
IX: L'età neo-sumerica
X: La crisi della seconda urbanizzazione
XIII: L'età di Mari
XIV: Hammurabi di Babilonia
XIX: La Siria-Palestina nel Tardo Bronzo
Capitoli da L. Milano (a cura di), Il vicino Oriente antico, dalle origini ad Alessandro Magno, EncycloMedia Publishers, Milano, 2012:
Introduzione (L. Milano)
Capitolo 8 (M. Jursa).
Stefania Ermidoro, Quando gli dei erano uomini, Paideia editrice, Torino, 2017.
Learning Objectives
The course introduces the students to the knowledge of the civilizations that flourished in the "land between the rivers", i.e. Mesopotamia, and in the
nearby Syro-Levantine areas, and offers a first approach to the cuneiform writing of the paleobabilonian period (i.e. Hammurabi of Babylon, 18th
century BC).
nearby Syro-Levantine areas, and offers a first approach to the cuneiform writing of the paleobabilonian period (i.e. Hammurabi of Babylon, 18th
century BC).
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
Lectures.
The students will present scientific articles in-depth in relation to the topics presented during the course.
Collective discussion of articles will be held during the course.
The students will present scientific articles in-depth in relation to the topics presented during the course.
Collective discussion of articles will be held during the course.
Further information
During the lectures historical studies on specific topics will be read and discussed.
The slides used during the course will be provided under the Moodle Platform.
The slides used during the course will be provided under the Moodle Platform.
Type of Assessment
Oral exam.
The student must answers to questions on Mesopotamian history and culture. The presentations held by the student during the course will be
part of the final evaluation.
The student must answers to questions on Mesopotamian history and culture. The presentations held by the student during the course will be
part of the final evaluation.
Course program
Using cuneiform written sources complemented with data of material culture and history of the studies, during the course will be
discussed various case studies useful for a critical assessment of some of the highlights of Mesopotamian and Syro-Levantine history and culture.
Further insights will concern both the worship of ancestors and the conceptualization of the past in the texts of Ebla (24th BC) and Mari (18th
BC), and Near Eastern cultural aspects that attracted the attention of the classical world.
The student will learn how the system of cuneiform writing works.
discussed various case studies useful for a critical assessment of some of the highlights of Mesopotamian and Syro-Levantine history and culture.
Further insights will concern both the worship of ancestors and the conceptualization of the past in the texts of Ebla (24th BC) and Mari (18th
BC), and Near Eastern cultural aspects that attracted the attention of the classical world.
The student will learn how the system of cuneiform writing works.