Amalia Catagnoti
Associate Professor
Department of History, Archeology, Geography, Art and Entert
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Research Assistant at the University of Florence from 1.1.1991 to 31.12.2003. Researcher of Semitic Philology at the University of Florence from January 1, 2004. Researcher of Assyriology at the University of Florence from November 1, 2005. Professor of Assyriology at the University of Florence from October 1, 2015. Member of the Italian Archaeological Expedition at Tell Mardikh - Ebla, Syria, (University of Rome "La Sapienza", director Prof. Paolo Matthiae), as epigraphist, from 1991-. Member of the American Archaeological Expedition at Tell Banat, Tishrin, Syria (directed by TL McClellan), as site supervisor, in 1995 and 1997. Member of the team of Mari UPR 193, CNRS (Paris), directed by J.-M. Durand and F. Joannès, from 1990 to 1997. Member of the Scientific Commitee of CLieo (Historical and Theoretical Language Center: Italian, European Languages, Oriental Languages) from 2012-. Member of "Doctoral School of Linguistics Research" 2005-2009. Member of "Doctoral School of History Research" from 2010. She has participated in several research projects concerning Semitic Linguistics (National Research Council).
Research Interest
Assyria
Publications
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Amalia, Catagnoti (2015). Typologies textuelles et traditions scribales in the texts of Ébla protosyrienne (xxxive s. Av. J.-c.). ANNALES ARCHÉOLOGIQUES ARABES SYRIENNES, vol. LVII-LVIII, pp. 113-129, ISSN: 0570-1554
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Catagnoti, Amalia (2015). Ritual circumambulations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Cuneiform texts. An overview. In: N. Laneri (ed.). Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the study of archaeological practices and beliefs in the Near East, pp. 134-141 Oxbow books, ISBN: 978-1-78297-679-0.
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Catagnoti Amalia (2016). The lexicon of plants to Ebla: boxwood. In: P. Corò, E. Devecchi, N. De Zorzi, M. Maiocchi (eds.). We fly in the cool glasses. Ancient Near Eastern Studies presented to Lucio Milan on the occasion of his 65th Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends, pp. 29-50, Münster: Ugarit Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-86835-197-2.
