Giovanni Pettinato

Giovanni Pettinato (30 April 1934, in Troina – 19 May 2011, in Rome) was an Assyriologist and paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language,^[1] His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by Paolo Matthiae in 1974–75.^[2][3][4][5]

Pettinato graduated from Heidelberg in 1968, where he had studied for ten years. In 1968 he began teaching Assyriology at the University of Rome.^[6]

Pettinato died on 19 May 2011 at the age of 76. He was an emeritus of several associations, including the Accademia dei Lincei^[7] and authored several publications about the Sumerian and Mesopotamian civilizations.^[8]

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