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articles appeared on selected journals and accepted papers currently on press - as well as in preparation, unpublished manuscripts.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)
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)
““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]
Ancient Anatolian languages and cultures in contact
in JoLR 2018 (in collaboration with P. Cotticelli-Kurras)
THREE CUNEIFORM NOTES
in Bibliotheca Orientalis 2019
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)
“I luvi a Kanesh e i loro nomi”
Aula Orientalis 38 [2020]
Assyrian camels and Luwian officials
in NABU 2020/1
On Old Assyrian tuzzinnum
Fs Stefano De Martino
“Questa città dei miei antenati era di Ninuāyu”
Fs for Clelia Mora
Grammatical categories in contact: Gender assignment criteria in the Hittite borrowings from the neighbouring languages
in the acts of the 2019 Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft
“Pre-Greek” between theories and linguistic data: Examples from the Anatolian area”
in the acts of the 2019 Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft
Glossenkeil and indentation on Hittite tablets
in Altorientalische Forschungen 2020 [Green OA 12 month embargo]
On the interchange between l and r in Lycian and the case of Pinara
Word formation, grammar and lexicology in a multilingual context, Baar Verlag, 2020.
A GAM AG? NI in the Birth Ritual of Pittei (KBo 13.241+ rev. 22)
NABU 2020/2, 145-148.
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
Anatolian Studies 2021
The ways of an empire: Continuity and change of route landscapes across the Taurus during the Hittite Period (ca. 1650–1200 BCE)
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 62
Hypotheses of interference between Greek and the languages of Ancient Anatolia: the case of patronymics
Journal of Language Relationship 19
חִתּוּל, ḥtl, huttulli?
N.A.B.U. 2021/3 Nr. 76
[MONOGRAPH] Studies in the languages and language contact in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia
Edited volume
Archaeolinguistics and the historical study of contacts in Anatolia
in Studies in the languages and language contact in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia, pp. 11-44. [Green OA will be granted after a 12-month embargo]
The Lycian toponym Κάδρεμα and the Anatolian wheat
in Studies in the languages and language contact in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia, pp. 67-80
Greek πύργος ‘tower’ as a possible Lydian borrowing: a new contribution from the PALaC project
Milyan dialectal divergence and its traces in onomastics
Kadmos 60 [Green OA will be granted 12 months after publication]
The epithet Τιαμου of the Moon-god in Lydia
Kadmos 60 [OA will be granted 12 months after publication]
The population, the language and the history of Yadiya/Sam’al
Beyond All Boundaries. Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BC (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 295)
On the origin and meaning of the Assyrian toponym Tabal
in Aramazd 2021 (in collaboration with Alfredo Rizza)
Foreigners and foreign names in Anatolian hieroglyphs
in R. Dan et al., eds, Studia Hethitica, Hurritica et Urartaica, Rome, 2022.
Remarques sur la détermination du nom entre lycien et grec d’Asie Mineure
NABU 2022/2, n. 67
ANATOLIAN GLOSSES IN THE AKKADIAN MEDICAL OMINA
KASKAL 18
Ugaritic ḥrb, Old Babylonian harbu, Luwian harpa- and Greek ἅρπη?
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2022/3, n. 106.
On the Aegean-Anatolian historical and linguistic interface in the Final Bronze Age
News From the Lands of the Hittites 5/6.
[MONOGRAPH] Contacts of languages and peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite world
Volume 1: The Bronze Age and Hatti
Kubaba and other Divine Ladies of the Syro-Anatolian Iron Age: Developmental Trajectories, Local Variations, and Interregional Interactions
in Warbinek, L. and Giusfredi, F., eds, THEONYMS, PANTHEA AND SYNCRETISMS IN HITTITE ANATOLIA AND NORTHERN SYRIA Proceedings of the TeAI workshop held in Verona, March 25-26, 2022.
The Anatolian glosses in the Akkadian medical texts from Boğazköy and the sociolinguistic situation of the late imperial Ḫattuša”
proceedings of the workshop The Luwic dialects of the Anatolian group: writing systems, grammar, lexicon and onomastics, Santiago, 24-25 february 2022.
Again on the Xanthos Pillar ha͂tahe. Between combinatory analysis and Greek epigraphic interference
proceedings of the workshop The Luwic dialects of the Anatolian group: writing systems, grammar, lexicon and onomastics, Santiago, 24-25 february 2022.
Identities in the making: Cultural frontiers in Central Anatolia in the 2nd millennium BCE
In Prandi L. and Ponchia S., eds., Shaping Boundaries
Maliya, Malija, Malis, Athena From Kizzuwatna to the Aegean: Borrowings, Translations, or Syncretisms?
[Section 4 "Analysis of the name" by F. Giusfredi; in collaboration with L. Warbinek, project TeAI] in press for AsiAnA 2023.
À la recherche d’emprunts linguistiques chez les grammairiens grecs anciens
in Langue idéale, langue réelle, Brepols, 2023.
PHRASEOLOGY AND LITERARY TOPOI BETWEEN ANATOLIA, THE AEGEAN AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
in News from the Lands of the Hittites 7
Su un vino di Meonia dai troppi e incerti nomi
in ANES Supp 61 (Fs Kosyan)
Accepted (in press/forthcoming)
"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.
"Restsprachen" in ancient Anatolia: direct and indirect sources, transmission and reconstruction
[in collaboration with Alfredo Rizza] In preparation for the proceedings of the conference Ricostruire lingue: dalle Restprachen alle endangered languages, Venice, 2-3 december 2021.
Was Hurrian spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the early Age of Hatti?
forthcoming in the proceedings of the conference Crossroads IV (Prague, september 2022).
Il Progetto PALaC: Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact
Forthcoming in the journal Scienze dell'Antichità.
Esichio come fonte per lo studio di forme anatoliche in greco
[In collaboration with A. Rizza] In press for the Proceedings of the 44th conference of the Società Italiana di Glottologia.
On an alleged Akkadian idiomatic expression in HAB ii 28
forthcoming in a volume [Green OA will be granted 12 months after publication]
Submitted/in preparation
Ancient Greek and late Anatolian languages: from coexistence on the territory to survival in the scholarly tradition
Submited to a forthcoming volume
Borrowing, translation and syncretism of deities in Ancient Anatolia
[in collaboration with L. Warbinek, TeAI project] submitted for the proceedings of the 66th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale [Open Access will be granted upon publication]
Resilient vines? Religious motifs and areal contacts between Central Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean in the post-Hittite period
submitted for a volume of conference proceedings
[MONOGRAPH] Contacts of languages and peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite world
Volume 2: The Iron Age and the Mediterranean Interface
Media
News & Interview (2023)
Linguaggi e culture in contatto nell'area del Mediterraneo antico - News on Univrmagazine (with video interview)
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
Anatolian and North-West Semitic languages, cultures and religions in contact: the KTMW stela from Zincirli
On the origin of an ancient designation of Cappadocian: Assyrian(?) Tabal and allegedly related forms
Paper at the Izmir 2020 conference! (with the collaboration of A. Rizza)