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Papers by Paola Coro'

Antichistica, 2018

Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Mu... more Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.

NABU, 2020

A new spelling for the name of Laodice in cuneiform: a matter of literacy? -A large number of Gre... more A new spelling for the name of Laodice in cuneiform: a matter of literacy? -A large number of Greek names are recorded in cuneiform sources, 1) less than a dozen of which refer to women. Among them is that of Laodice, identifying either the wife of Antiochus II or the daughter of Antiochus III. The fame of the former in Babylonian documents is mainly connected to the endowment of royal land she made for the citizens of Babylon, Borsippa and Kutha, recorded in the so-called Lehmann text. While the name of the second Laodice is spelled in cuneiform as f lu-di-qé-e, 3) more variability characterizes the writings of the name of the Laodice married to Antiochus II, who is recorded in documents written between 245 and 140 BC as f lam-ú-di-qé-'e, f lu-da-qé-e or f lu-di-qé-e. 4) The recent publication of a tablet in the British Museum recording a duplicate copy of the so-called Lehmann text bears witness to the existence of a further spelling of the same name in addition to those collected by Monerie, i.e., f la-ú-di-qé-e. 5) A comparison of the different spellings for the name and the sources in which they occur appears in the

After Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. contacts between the Greek and the Babylonian worlds... more After Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. contacts between the Greek
and the Babylonian worlds became something more than intermittent. Cuneiform
sources bear multiple traces of what we may label a “Greek presence” in Babylonia.
Surveying the ample debate on the topic and through the analysis of a few selected
examples, the present paper aims at investigating what Greek elements in Babylonian
sources may tell us with regard to the forms and characteristics of the contact. Before
tackling the problem, the paper will explore terminology as a fi rst step in order to
set the basis for a fruitful dialogue between diff erent disciplines.

in M. RUI (a cura di), Design the Future!, 2017

Scrittura cuneiforme, massive, on-line… il contributo presenta l’esperienza del MOOC ‘Cunei-Lab: ... more Scrittura cuneiforme, massive, on-line… il contributo presenta l’esperienza del MOOC ‘Cunei-Lab: introduzione al cuneiforme’, esaminandola alla luce di due apparenti paradossi: quello di insegnare il passato usando la tecnologia del presente e quello insito nell’associazione di cuneiforme e massive; filtro dell’analisi è l’esperienza della community, il cui profilo e le cui esigenze formative hanno contribuito a sviluppare, in corso di erogazione, l’‘oggetto-corso’, rendendo possibile progettare il futuro, anche insegnando il passato.

Cuneiform was used for about three millennia throughout the Near East. Subsequent adaptations and... more Cuneiform was used for about three millennia throughout the Near East. Subsequent
adaptations and transformations allowed the use of cuneiform to write a full range of different
languages, both Semitic and non-Semitic, and also enabled the birth of brand-new (alphabetic)
writing systems. The contact between languages by means of cuneiform culminated in the first
millennium BCE, when cuneiform was used to write Greek and Aramaic, and conversely with the
adoption of the Greek alphabet to transliterate Babylonian texts.
Download the full volume for free at the following link: http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/col/exp/36/113/FilologieMedievali/9

ne della sintomatologia (storia clinica) si veda HEEßEL, Diagnostik, 41-47. Sull'a‰ipu come speci... more ne della sintomatologia (storia clinica) si veda HEEßEL, Diagnostik, 41-47. Sull'a‰ipu come specialista 'psicologo' si veda in particolare GELLER, Charlatans, 9-15. 2 PARPOLA, Letters. 3 BOTTÉRO, Mythes; una recente riedizione del testo è in GELLER, Incipits, 225-258. Sulle biblioteche degli esorcisti vd. OELSNER, Priester, 235-242. PAOLA CORÒ ESORCISTI E PREBENDE DELL'ESORCISTA NELLA BABILONIA DI I MILLENNIO: IL CASO DI URUK

The tendency to accumulate temple prebends in the hands of a small number of individuals is a wel... more The tendency to accumulate temple prebends in the hands of a small number of individuals is a well known practice in Seleucid Uruk. In this paper I will focus on the business activities of these so called "multi-prebend holders." 2

Lexicon = W.H. Roscher (hrsg.), Ausfürliches Lexicon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie RE... more Lexicon = W.H. Roscher (hrsg.), Ausfürliches Lexicon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie RE = Pauly-Wissowa (hrsg.), Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertums-Wissenschaft

Alle collezioni dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte di Trieste appartengono due mattoni di fondazi... more Alle collezioni dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte di Trieste appartengono due mattoni di fondazione con iscrizione in lingua sumerica, ascrivibili a Gudea, re di Lagaš. 1 La data di acquisizione e le circostanze dell'arrivo dei due pezzi al Museo sono purtroppo sconosciute e così anche il luogo e il contesto di provenienza. 2 Su entrambi i mattoni è riportata copia della medesima iscrizione di fondazione che celebra i lavori di costruzione e ristrutturazione dell'Eninnu, il tempio del dio Ningirsu a Girsu, ad opera del sovrano della città. 3 Questa impresa è forse, tra le molteplici attività edilizie di Gudea, quella più nota e ampiamente celebrata. 4 L'iscrizione che costituisce l'oggetto dei due mattoni conservati a Trieste è tra le più diffuse commissionate da Gudea. Una recente stima di Edzard ne censisce 33 esemplari su mattoni, oltre a numerose copie su supporti di altro genere (coni d'argilla, perni di porta, tavolette di pietra e di diorite, blocchi di calcare). Nel pubblicare il materiale relativo a Gudea lo studioso osservava che «more inscriptions, mostly duplicates, but also new ones, are liable to turn up, sooner or later anyhow»: è quasi in risposta alla sua previsione che è oggi possibile, grazie ai due pezzi conservati a Trieste, aggiornare il suo catalogo, portando il numero complessivo di esemplari dell'iscrizione da 1171 a 1173. 5

Books by Paola Coro'

Antichistica 16. Studi Orientali 6. Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari Digital Publishing, 2018

Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Mu... more Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.
E-book available here: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-246-8
Buy a printed copy at 50% discount ordering by 31.07.2018 (see attached pdf)

E-learning products (MOOCs and MOODLE) by Paola Coro'

An introduction to Cuneiform open to all those interested in the subject, by Università Ca' Fosca... more An introduction to Cuneiform open to all those interested in the subject, by Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. The course is in Italian.
First edition: September 2015
Second edition: from 29th August, 2016

Antichistica, 2018

Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Mu... more Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.

NABU, 2020

A new spelling for the name of Laodice in cuneiform: a matter of literacy? -A large number of Gre... more A new spelling for the name of Laodice in cuneiform: a matter of literacy? -A large number of Greek names are recorded in cuneiform sources, 1) less than a dozen of which refer to women. Among them is that of Laodice, identifying either the wife of Antiochus II or the daughter of Antiochus III. The fame of the former in Babylonian documents is mainly connected to the endowment of royal land she made for the citizens of Babylon, Borsippa and Kutha, recorded in the so-called Lehmann text. While the name of the second Laodice is spelled in cuneiform as f lu-di-qé-e, 3) more variability characterizes the writings of the name of the Laodice married to Antiochus II, who is recorded in documents written between 245 and 140 BC as f lam-ú-di-qé-'e, f lu-da-qé-e or f lu-di-qé-e. 4) The recent publication of a tablet in the British Museum recording a duplicate copy of the so-called Lehmann text bears witness to the existence of a further spelling of the same name in addition to those collected by Monerie, i.e., f la-ú-di-qé-e. 5) A comparison of the different spellings for the name and the sources in which they occur appears in the

After Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. contacts between the Greek and the Babylonian worlds... more After Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. contacts between the Greek
and the Babylonian worlds became something more than intermittent. Cuneiform
sources bear multiple traces of what we may label a “Greek presence” in Babylonia.
Surveying the ample debate on the topic and through the analysis of a few selected
examples, the present paper aims at investigating what Greek elements in Babylonian
sources may tell us with regard to the forms and characteristics of the contact. Before
tackling the problem, the paper will explore terminology as a fi rst step in order to
set the basis for a fruitful dialogue between diff erent disciplines.

in M. RUI (a cura di), Design the Future!, 2017

Scrittura cuneiforme, massive, on-line… il contributo presenta l’esperienza del MOOC ‘Cunei-Lab: ... more Scrittura cuneiforme, massive, on-line… il contributo presenta l’esperienza del MOOC ‘Cunei-Lab: introduzione al cuneiforme’, esaminandola alla luce di due apparenti paradossi: quello di insegnare il passato usando la tecnologia del presente e quello insito nell’associazione di cuneiforme e massive; filtro dell’analisi è l’esperienza della community, il cui profilo e le cui esigenze formative hanno contribuito a sviluppare, in corso di erogazione, l’‘oggetto-corso’, rendendo possibile progettare il futuro, anche insegnando il passato.

Cuneiform was used for about three millennia throughout the Near East. Subsequent adaptations and... more Cuneiform was used for about three millennia throughout the Near East. Subsequent
adaptations and transformations allowed the use of cuneiform to write a full range of different
languages, both Semitic and non-Semitic, and also enabled the birth of brand-new (alphabetic)
writing systems. The contact between languages by means of cuneiform culminated in the first
millennium BCE, when cuneiform was used to write Greek and Aramaic, and conversely with the
adoption of the Greek alphabet to transliterate Babylonian texts.
Download the full volume for free at the following link: http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/col/exp/36/113/FilologieMedievali/9

ne della sintomatologia (storia clinica) si veda HEEßEL, Diagnostik, 41-47. Sull'a‰ipu come speci... more ne della sintomatologia (storia clinica) si veda HEEßEL, Diagnostik, 41-47. Sull'a‰ipu come specialista 'psicologo' si veda in particolare GELLER, Charlatans, 9-15. 2 PARPOLA, Letters. 3 BOTTÉRO, Mythes; una recente riedizione del testo è in GELLER, Incipits, 225-258. Sulle biblioteche degli esorcisti vd. OELSNER, Priester, 235-242. PAOLA CORÒ ESORCISTI E PREBENDE DELL'ESORCISTA NELLA BABILONIA DI I MILLENNIO: IL CASO DI URUK

The tendency to accumulate temple prebends in the hands of a small number of individuals is a wel... more The tendency to accumulate temple prebends in the hands of a small number of individuals is a well known practice in Seleucid Uruk. In this paper I will focus on the business activities of these so called "multi-prebend holders." 2

Lexicon = W.H. Roscher (hrsg.), Ausfürliches Lexicon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie RE... more Lexicon = W.H. Roscher (hrsg.), Ausfürliches Lexicon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie RE = Pauly-Wissowa (hrsg.), Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertums-Wissenschaft

Alle collezioni dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte di Trieste appartengono due mattoni di fondazi... more Alle collezioni dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte di Trieste appartengono due mattoni di fondazione con iscrizione in lingua sumerica, ascrivibili a Gudea, re di Lagaš. 1 La data di acquisizione e le circostanze dell'arrivo dei due pezzi al Museo sono purtroppo sconosciute e così anche il luogo e il contesto di provenienza. 2 Su entrambi i mattoni è riportata copia della medesima iscrizione di fondazione che celebra i lavori di costruzione e ristrutturazione dell'Eninnu, il tempio del dio Ningirsu a Girsu, ad opera del sovrano della città. 3 Questa impresa è forse, tra le molteplici attività edilizie di Gudea, quella più nota e ampiamente celebrata. 4 L'iscrizione che costituisce l'oggetto dei due mattoni conservati a Trieste è tra le più diffuse commissionate da Gudea. Una recente stima di Edzard ne censisce 33 esemplari su mattoni, oltre a numerose copie su supporti di altro genere (coni d'argilla, perni di porta, tavolette di pietra e di diorite, blocchi di calcare). Nel pubblicare il materiale relativo a Gudea lo studioso osservava che «more inscriptions, mostly duplicates, but also new ones, are liable to turn up, sooner or later anyhow»: è quasi in risposta alla sua previsione che è oggi possibile, grazie ai due pezzi conservati a Trieste, aggiornare il suo catalogo, portando il numero complessivo di esemplari dell'iscrizione da 1171 a 1173. 5

Antichistica 16. Studi Orientali 6. Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari Digital Publishing, 2018

Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Mu... more Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.
E-book available here: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-246-8
Buy a printed copy at 50% discount ordering by 31.07.2018 (see attached pdf)

An introduction to Cuneiform open to all those interested in the subject, by Università Ca' Fosca... more An introduction to Cuneiform open to all those interested in the subject, by Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. The course is in Italian.
First edition: September 2015
Second edition: from 29th August, 2016

Advanced Akkadian [FT0398] (30 hrs; blended, Moodle course) Title: "Ho ridotto le città dei miei ... more Advanced Akkadian [FT0398] (30 hrs; blended, Moodle course)
Title: "Ho ridotto le città dei miei nemici a cumuli di macerie e rovine...". Iscrizioni reali paleo-babilonesi: testo e contesto.
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

[FT0025] Introduction to Akkadian (30 hrs; blended; Moodle course) Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

[FT0398] Assyriology II (30 hrs.; blended; moodle course). Title: "Riferisci a NP...": lettura di... more [FT0398] Assyriology II (30 hrs.; blended; moodle course).
Title: "Riferisci a NP...": lettura di lettere paleobabilonesi.
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

[FT0025] Introduction to Akkadian - I module (blended course) Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

An introduction to cuneiform: free on-line @ EduOpen.org

App per smartphone per la visita guidata della mostra fotografica Ninive. Una capitale assira tra... more App per smartphone per la visita guidata della mostra fotografica Ninive. Una capitale assira tra passato e presente, Venezia 17 giugno-30 novembre 2015

download for free: http://www.dsi.unive.it/…/…/NiniVE%201.0.1%20fixed-armv7.apk

Naming practices in Hellenistic Uruk have been the object of a number of studies, focussing, amon... more Naming practices in Hellenistic Uruk have been the object of a number of studies, focussing, among others, on name-giving procedures, on the use and significance of double names, on mammonymy and the role of maternal line papponymy in onomastics and on the significance and diffusion of Greek names in Babylonian families. Individuals acting in legal and administrative records are typically identified by a three-tier onomastic chain, including the name of the individual, the patronym and the clan name. They seem to be the members of the urban notability of Uruk. Exceptions to this rule are represented, among others, by individuals identified through a two-tier expressions of filiation, complemented by a professional name; the lack of a family name is generally interpreted as an indication of non appartenance to the urban elite and the onomastics of some of those individuals seems to reveal a foreign origin for them.
The paper will try to cast new light on the interrelations between identification practices, ethnicity and professions in the corpus.

Laboratorio di scrittura cuneiforme per bambini. Descriviamo, in cuneiforme, su tavoletta d'argil... more Laboratorio di scrittura cuneiforme per bambini. Descriviamo, in cuneiforme, su tavoletta d'argilla, i favolosi paesaggi attraversati dal re assiro durante le campagne militari...