Our resources
A collection of our publications: articles appeared on selected journals and accepted papers currently on press - as well as in preparation, unpublished manuscripts.
Appeared
"lahan, lahannum, DUGlahanni-: an exotic flask"
in NABU 2018/2
On Phoenicians in Ptolemaic Cyprus: A Note on CIS I 95”
in Vicino Oriente XXII (2018)
Ancient Anatolian languages and cultures in contact
in JoLR 2018 (in collaboration with P. Cotticelli-Kurras)
A contact-based study of the languages and cultures of Pre-Classical Anatolia: the project PALaC
in News from the Lands of the Hittites 2 (2018)
THREE CUNEIFORM NOTES
in Bibliotheca Orientalis 2019
““Chariots” in contact: on the value of the signs *91, *92 and *94 of Hieroglyphic Luwian”
12-month embargo [https://iris.univr.it/handle/11562/994543?mode=full.40#.Xd_VOi2h08Y]
On the names Iyaya and Iya and their late diffusion in the Ancient Near East
In NABU 2019/3
KUB 37.122: A MESOPOTAMIAN LEXICAL LIST?
in Vicino Oriente XXIII (2019)
Linguistic strategies in filiation formulas: data from Lycian-Greek bilingual texts
Incontri Linguistici 42 (2019)
Assyrian camels and Luwian officials
in NABU 2020/1
On Old Assyrian tuzzinnum
12-month embargo [https://iris.univr.it/handle/11562/994546#.Xs-MnhMzaEI] in Fs Stefano De Martino
Glossenkeil and indentation on Hittite tablets
in Altorientalische Forschungen 2020
A GAM AG? NI in the Birth Ritual of Pittei (KBo 13.241+ rev. 22)
NABU 2020/2, 145-148.
Accepted (in press/forthcoming)
“I luvi a Kanesh e i loro nomi”
in press for Aula Orientalis 38 [will appear in 2020]
“Questa città dei miei antenati era di Ninuāyu”
in press in the Fs for Clelia Mora
The population, the language and the history of Yadiya/Sam’al” forthcoming in a conference proceedings
in press in the Ascona "Beyond Boundaries" conference proceedings
PHRASEOLOGY AND LITERARY TOPOI BETWEEN ANATOLIA, THE AEGEAN AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
in press for a forthcoming volume
Grammatical categories in contact: Gender assignment criteria in the Hittite borrowings from the neighbouring languages
forthcoming in the acts of the 2019 Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft
“Pre-Greek” between theories and linguistic data: Examples from the Anatolian area”
forthcoming in the acts of the 2019 Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft
On the interchange between l and r in Lycian and the case of Pinara
in press for the proceedings of the conference Word formation, grammar and lexicology in a multilingual context: between comparative-historical, theoretical, and computational corpus linguistics, Rome 2019.
Stranieri e nomi stranieri in geroglifico anatolico
forthcoming in a volume
On the origin and meaning of the Assyrian toponym Tabal
to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Cappadocia and Cappadocians in the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods", May 14-15, 2020, Izmir.
On the Aegean-Anatolian interface in the Final Bronze Age: some historical considerations and their cultural and linguistic implications
Proceedings of the conference "The Aegean Interface", 19. Grazer Althistorische Adventgespräche 2019, Graz, December 2019
The closing formula of the Old Phrygian epitaph B-07 in the light of the Aramaic KAI 318: a case of textual convergence in Daskyleion
in press in Anatolian Studies
Su un vino di Meonia dai troppi e incerti nomi
(forthcoming in a volume)
In preparation for planned volumes
"INTERCULTURALITY AND LINGUISTIC LEGACY IN THE SYRO-ANATOLIAN POLITIES AT THE TURN OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BCE"
forthcoming in the proceedings of the conference Entre l’Âge de la Diplomatie et le premier grand Empire en Asie occidentale (1200-900 av. J.-C.) : au-delà du paradigme de collapse et régénération, Paris 2019.
Stèles et autres monuments dans les inscriptions louvites
in preparation for the proceedings of the Louvre 2019 conference Sculpture et art monumental de l’empire hittite et de ses héritiers néo-hittites et araméens
The ways of an Empire: continuity and change of route landscapes across the Taurus during the Hittite period (ca. 1650-1200 BCE)
Submitted for publication in a journal
Media
Interview
for Scienza in Rete. [ITA]
Sculpture et art monumental de l’empire hittite et de ses héritiers néo-hittites et araméens
Louvre auditorium, speech given on May 17 2019
A popular science presentation of the project
from the web-journal Scienza in rete [ITA]
Newspaper article on the first PALaC workshop
from the newspaper L'Arena