Auf der Suche nach Hatra: Einige Voranmerkungen zu Franz Altheims Forschungsreise im Nahen Osten

  • Marco Moriggi University of Catania

Abstract

The German historian Franz Altheim’s interest for the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire is reflected in his scholarly bibliography. This paper aims at providing some hints in order to investigate how this interest could be pursued through a research trip to Mesopotamia this scholar made in 1938 under the auspices of thee “Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutsches Ahnenerbe” Society.

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Author Biography

Marco Moriggi, University of Catania

Marco Moriggi, Ph.D. (2003) Semitic Linguistics (Florence), is Associate Professor in Semitic Philology at the University of Catania. He has published on various Aramaic varieties, including Syriac. His latest titles include: Aramaic Graffiti from Hatra. A Study based on the Archive of the Missione Archeologica Italiana (with Ilaria Bucci, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2019), “Hatran Aramaic and Old Syriac: parallelisms and differences in Aramaic epigraphy of Late Antique Jazirah.” Archiv Orientální 88: 1-13.

He can be reached at: nabarzaduk@gmail.com

Published
2021-09-06
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