Giovanni Mazzini

1992 Honours Degree, Semitic Philology, University of Pisa, 1991-1992 2 semesters University of Tübingen (Erasmus Project).

1993-1997 PhD Semitic Philology, University of Florence. 1994 University of Tübingen (3 semesters); 1994-1995 CNRS, Aix-en-Provence (1 semester); 1995 Oriental Institute, Oxford (2 semesters).

1996-1997 Diploma in Arabic Grammar, Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies - Rome.

1996 Italian-French Mission to Yemen, Epigraphic survey in Wadi Bayhan, Yemen Italian Mission to Oman, Sultanate of Oman1996 Archaeological excavation.

1999 University of Tel Aviv, Israel Workshop on the Origins of Semitic Scripts (2 months).

1999-2001 University of Pisa, Project on the Corpus of Ancient South Arabian Inscriptions online (CSAI) http//:csai.humnet.unipi.it.

1999-2002 Tecnico Laureato Semitic Philology, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico.

2002 - 2022 Ricercatore Semitic Philology, Dipartimento Civiltà e forme del Sapere.

2022 Associate Professor Semitic Philology, Dipartimento Civiltà e Forme del Sapere.

2003 Summer Semester University of Münster, Research Semester at Institut für Altorientalische Philologie und Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde.

2004, 2005, 2006 Sommer Semester, University of Marburg Research Semester at Institut für Orientalistik und Sprachwissenschaft Fachgebiet Semitistik.

2007, 2012, 2022, 2023 Sommer Semester University of Jena, Research Semester at Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients.

2007- 2008 British Museum, MENCAWAR project, teaching and catalogue writing responsibilities (Ancient South Arabian epigraphic collection).

2011-2012 Museo Orientale Roma, Cataloguing the Ancient South Arabian inscriptions in the context of the exhibition: Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen (11-10-212 / 13-1-2013).

2018-currently “Korrespondierender Mitglied” Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung (Berlin).

2021-currently “Membre Associé” UMR 8167 - Orient & Méditerranée, texts archéologie, histoire (CNRS France).

2020-2024 Project Ancient and Modern Languages of South Arabia. A cross-disciplinary approach to a linguistic area (ALMAS): ANR Agence National de la Recherche, AAPG2019, CES 27 “Culture, créations patrimoine”. Julien Dufour. CEFAS, CNRS, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Pisa.

Co-editor (with V. Matoian, O. Wikander, W.G.E. Watson) Ugarit-Forschungen.

Editorial board
Egitto e Vicino Oriente
Studi Classici e Orientali
Sabaica et Aethiopica


Teaching Responsabilities:
Semitic Philology
Semitic Epigraphy
Biblical Hebrew
Ugaritic
Hittite

Accademic Competences
Documentation of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Documentation of Northwest Semitic (II and I Millennium)
Semitic Comparative linguistics, history and culture of the ancient Near East
Cultural interaction between Ancient Greece and the Ancient Near East
Comparative Indoeuropean linguistics
Classical Arabic, Classical Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Classical Greek, Latin, Hittite.