IRANIAN EPIGRAPHY

Course objectives

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of IRANIC EPIGRAPHY, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying the subject in an independent and self-educational way. The module aims to provide students with the basic lines of linguistic-philological kind of the Iranian ethnolinguistic area.

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CARLO GIOVANNI CERETI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The seminar-style course will be structured in two distinct phases: 1) Introduction to Middle Persian (2 weeks) 2) Reading epigraphic texts (4 weeks) Bibliography will be given in class
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of linguistic issues, at least two previous courses on Iranian topics.
Books
Bibliography given in class.
Frequency
Seminary
Exam mode
Assessment will be based on a paper and its subsequent discussion.
  • Lesson code1041979
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseArchaeology
  • CurriculumArcheologia orientale
  • Year1st year
  • Duration12 months
  • SSDL-OR/14
  • CFU6