Modulo II (Agostini):
Semitic writing systems. Introduction to the Aramaic language and to its epigraphic documentation. Reading, analysis and interpretation of some selected texts in Ancient and Imperial Aramaic. This part of the course will deal with some of the most significant paleographic, phonological and morphological problems of the Aramaic language between Ancient and Imperial phases, to be analyzed in the broader historical context of the Semitic languages.