Giovanni Pettinato
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 13 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 30,1934 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Troina |
| Italy | |
| Date of died | May 19,2011 |
| Died | Rome |
| Italy | |
| Books | The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay |
| Ebla, a New Look at History | |
| Job | Translator |
| Historian | |
| Anthropologist | |
| Assyriologist | |
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| ID | 1197211 |
Giovanni Pettinato Life story
Giovanni Pettinato was a paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language, His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by P. Matthiae in 1974–75. Pettinato graduated from Heidelberg in 1968, where he had studied for ten years.