Review of H. Nissen, R. K. Englund: Archaische Verwaldungstexte aus Uruk, Die Heidelberger Sammlung (ATU 7).
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Review of Benjamin R. Foster: Umma in the Sargonic Period.
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The paper, published in the series RSO 2017, describes the process of making new settlements in the archaic period, based on a number of texts belonging to a private collection.
Food production and consumption in the IV Millennium BCE Mesopotamia.
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This paper, based on a lecture held at the University of Los Angeles, Oct. 2013, demonstrates that the Language of the proto-cuneifom inscriptions is Sumerian. Consequently, the long-lasting "Sumerian Question" is definitively solved.
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The practice of loans with interest, in particular regarding the provisions of barley, was in use since the beginning of writing (IV Millennium BCE)
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Field measurement practices in the archaic cuneiform tests, showing the use of the "surveyors' formula"
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The most archaic mathematical tablets ever published, dealing with the calculation of quadrilaterals' surface
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The use of silver, in particular as a reference value in the transactions, from the end of the IV Millennium BCE to the old Akkadian period.
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Use of certain signs in the nominal lists of workers to identify the persons in terms of workforce.
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Interpretation of the numerical notations placed before the personal names in the nominal lists of workers
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A new tablet dealing with workforce sent out of the town is published.
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Two governors by the same name are identified as one and the same person.
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Accurate knowledge of the solar year duration in the IV Millennium B.C.E.
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The smallest Sumerian numerical notation
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Archaic administrative practices
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School exercise.
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A grammar of Old-Babylonian (Akkadian), with a complete sign list (by the A.).
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Two bullae and 195 archaic tablets, including those tablets which allowed the definitive solution of the "Sumerian Question".
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Tansliteration, translation, commentary, photos and copies of late fourth-millennium cuneiform texts and bullae. Tablet no. 38 is one of the two oldest mathematical texts ever published (see "Two archaic mathematical tablets," SEL 28... more
Tansliteration, translation, commentary, photos and copies of late fourth-millennium cuneiform texts and bullae.
Tablet no. 38 is one of the two oldest mathematical texts ever published (see "Two archaic mathematical tablets," SEL 28 (2011), 1-5).
Tablet no. 38 is one of the two oldest mathematical texts ever published (see "Two archaic mathematical tablets," SEL 28 (2011), 1-5).
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Economic documents dealing with the administration and distribution of barley, emmer, flour, seed, malt, bread, and wheat in Sumer in the middle of the third millennium BC.
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Publication of 220 archaic tablets of the ex Rosen Collection
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Proto-Cuneiforme e Proto-Elamita: i Segni. Sistemi Numerici e Notazioni Temporali. Esercitazione
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Pre-Scrittura e Proto-Scrittura. Teorie sull'Origine della Scrittura. Proto-Cuneiforme e Proto-Elamita. La Questione Sumerica. Esercitazione.
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Scrittura e Storia. Le Prime Scoperte. Inizio della decifrazione. Gli scavi archeologici nel Vicino Oriente. Esercitazione
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Additional elements in support of the reconstruction of the time-line of both Umma and Lagash rulers
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New governors of Umma have been identified in the course of publication of the tablets in the Cornell University Museum.
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Geografical distribution of the first writings. First discoveries and decipherment. Proto-Cuneiform and Proto-Elamite: structure of the tablets, signs, numerical systems and temporal notations.
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Relationship between Writing and History. Proto-Writings in the world. From Proto-Writing to Early-Writings. Theories on the Origin of Writing.
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Seminar held at the University of Rome, La Sapienza with an intervent of dr. Maddalena Diaco
Piano lezioni del Seminario
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Interview on the 'Roma' newspaper, Jan 14, 2015