GABRIELLA SPADA

Appello straordinario:

mercoledì 7 maggio 2025, ore 15:30, stanza 322, III piano, Edificio Marco Polo

Appelli sessione estiva 2024–2025:

I appello: mercoledì 11 giugno 2025, ore 11:00, stanza 322, III piano, Edificio Marco Polo

II appello: mercoledì 2 luglio 2025, ore 11:00, stanza 322, III piano, Edificio Marco Polo

Appelli settembre 2024–2025:

I appello: mercoledì 10 settembre 2025, ore 15:00, stanza 322, III piano, Edificio Marco Polo

II appello: mercoledì 24 settembre 2025, ore 15:00, stanza 322, III piano, Edificio Marco Polo

Introduzione alla lingua accadica 

(Corso di Laurea triennale in Lingue e Civiltà Orientali; Corso di Laurea triennale in Scienze Archeologiche)

Orario:

Lunedì 14-16 (Aula T - seminari e tesi, Vetreria Sciarra)

Martedì 10-12 (Aula E, Vetreria Sciarra)

Inizio delle lezioni: lunedì 30 settembre 2024.

Le slide del corso e gli esercizi saranno resi disponibili sulla piattaforma Moodle. Codice corso 1023406.

Si prega di scrivere a gabriella.spada@uniroma1.it per il materiale dei corsi 2022–2023 e 2023–2024.  

Le modalità per l'assegnazione della tesi di laurea sono disponibili a questo link

Gabriella Spada è ricercatrice a tempo determinato di tipo A presso il Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali (ISO) di Sapienza Università di Roma.
Dopo aver conseguito il titolo di dottore presso Sapienza Università di Roma, è stata assegnista di ricerca e borsista post-doc (finanziata dalla Gerda Henkel Stiftung) presso la stessa università.

Ricerca
I suoi principali ambiti di ricerca riguardano la storia socio-economica e la documentazione cuneiforme della Babilonia di II millennio a.C., con un focus particolare sulla ricostruzione e l'analisi del sistema scolastico di periodo paleo-babilonese.
Attualmente è direttrice del progetto digitale Old Babylonian Model Contracts (OBMC http://oracc.org/obmc) ed epigrafista delle missioni archeologiche a Eridu (Tell Abu Shahrain, Iraq meridionale) e Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, Iraq meridionale), condotte da Sapienza.
Ha partecipato a vari gruppi di ricerca e progetti nazionali (PRIN 2002, 2004, 2006) e internazionali (2008, 2011, patrocinati dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e dal Ministero dei Beni Culturali) svoltisi in Gran Bretagna (British Museum) e Iraq (Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage, Erbil).
Nel corso della sua carriera accademia ha pubblicato circa 600 testi inediti di vario genere e formato, principalmente relativi al periodo neo-sumerico e paleo-babilonese, appartenenti a diverse collezioni europee e statunitensi (British Museum; Hilprecht-Sammlung, Jena; Schøyen Collection, Oslo; Rosen Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca).

Altro
È vice-direttore della rivista di Classe A Oriens Antiquus Series Nova (Sapienza Università di Roma).
È abilitata per la I (dal 2025) e II fascia (dal 2018) per il Settore Concorsuale 10/N1, Culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, del Medio Oriente e dell'Africa.
Nel 2013 ha vinto il primo premio per il miglior articolo di ambito assiriologico indetto dalla International Association for Assyriology (IAA). Articolo premiato: A Handbook from the Eduba a: an Old Babylonian Collection of Model Contracts , Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 101/2, 204-245 (2011).

Pubblicazioni
Tra le principali pubblicazioni monografiche:
A. Archi G. Spada, Annual Documents Concerning Metal Expenditures (è) from Minister Ibrium's period, ARET 21, Wiesbaden: Harrassovitz, 2023.
A.R. George G. Spada, Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection. Part Two. School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts, CUSAS 43, University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2019.
F. D Agostino G. Spada A. Greco A. Bramanti, La lingua dei Sumeri, Milano: Hoepli 2019.
G. Spada, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Hilprecht Collection Jena, TMH 11, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018.
F. D Agostino M.S. Cingolo G. Spada, La lingua di Babilonia, Milano: Hoepli, 2016.
J. Black G. Spada, Texts from Ur kept in the Iraq Museum and the British Museum, Nisaba 19, Messina: DICAM, 2008.
G. Spada, Testi economici da Ur di periodo paleo-babilonese, Nisaba 12, Messina: DICAM, 2007.

Tra gli articoli e contributi in volume degli ultimi 5 anni:
G. Spada, The naditu Sometimes Borrows Silver Twice, in S. Alivernini, A. Bramanti, A. Greco, G. Spada (eds.) “And I Have Also Devoted Myself to the Art of Music” Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Franco D’Agostino Presented on His 65th Birthday by His Pupils, Colleagues, and Friends, dubsar 37, Münster: Zaphon, 2025, 139-152.
G. Spada, Old Babylonian Temple Loans: an Assessment, RSO 97, 2024, 149-164.
G. Spada, The Old Babylonian Temple Loans: The Archive of the Temple of Ura in Geraineh, in D. Charpin and A. Jacquet (eds.) Archibab 6. Archives paléobabyloniennes: 150 ans de publications et d études (1872 2022), Mémoires de NABU 24, Paris: SEPOA, 2024 (in stampa).
G. Spada - W.W. Hallo, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Arkeoloji Müzeleri of Istanbul, JCS 76, 2024, 53-101.
F. D Agostino - G. Spada, Animal husbandry, in L. Culbertson and G. Rubio (eds.), Society and Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia, SANER 33, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 147-177.
G. Spada, Duties, Responsibilities, and Management of Slaves in the Sumerian Model Contracts of the Hilprecht-Sammlung and Other Collections, in J. J. de Ridder and P. Stein (eds.), The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities. Essays dedicated to Manfred Krebernik during the Colloquium Held on March 17-18, 2022 at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, TMH 14, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023, 213-227.
G. Spada, A new Old Babylonian antichretic pledge, OrAn SN 5, 2023, 115-118.
G. Spada, A new Old Babylonian temple loan, OrAn SN 5, 2023, 119-122.
G. Spada, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian period in the Rosen Collection, RA 116, 2022, 79-112.
G. Spada, Its interest is a food offering : Old Babylonian temple loans with the ma 2 m k lum formula, RSO 95, 2022, 89-101.
G. Spada, If a lion eats him , ArOr 89/3, 2021, 513-529.
G. Spada, Navigazione e leggi nella Mesopotamia del II millennio a.C. , OrAn SN 3, 2021, 153-163.
G. Spada, "I want to break free". Model contracts recording slave self-emancipation, in P. Notizia, A. Rositani, L. Verderame (eds.), dNisaba za3-mi2. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Francesco Pomponio, dubsar 19, Münster: Zaphon, 2021, 283-299.
N. Reid - G. Spada, Old Babylonian contracts in the Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University , OrAn SN 2, 2020, 63-79.
N. Reid -G. Spada, From Oslo to Atlanta: an Old Babylonian prism collecting model contracts , RSO 93, 2020, 37-58.

In preparazione:
A. Archi - G. Spada, Annual Documents Concerning Metal Expenditures (è) from Minister Ibbi-zikir's period, ARET 22, Wiesbaden: Harrassovitz, 2025.
F. D Agostino - G. Spada, The Lamentation over the Destruction of Eridu (New Edition).

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Gabriella Spada is a Research Fellow (RtdA) at the Department Italian Institute of Oriental Studies ISO , Sapienza University of Rome.
After earning her PhD at Sapienza University of Rome, she was a research fellow and a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Postdoctoral Scholarship holder at the same university.

Research
Her main research interests concern the socio-economic history and cuneiform documentation of second-millennium Babylonia, with a focus on the reconstruction and analysis of the school system of the Old Babylonian period.
She is currently the P.I. of the digital project Old Babylonian Model Contracts (OBMC http://oracc.org/obmc) and the field epigraphist of the Italian archaeological expeditions in Eridu (modern Tell Abu Shahrain, Southern Iraq) and Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, Southern Iraq) conducted by Sapienza.
She has participated in various national (PRIN projects: 2002, 2004, 2006) and international (2008, 2011, financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage) research groups and projects. Multiple research activities were conducted in the UK (British Museum) and Iraq (Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage, Erbil).
During her academic career, she has published approximately 600 texts that were previously unpublished, covering diverse genres and formats mainly relating to the Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian periods. Her research has taken her to numerous European and American collections (e.g. British Museum; Hilprecht-Sammlung, Jena; Schøyen Collection, Oslo; Rosen Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca).

Other merits
She is Assistant Editor of the journal Oriens Antiquus Series Nova (Sapienza University of Rome).
In 2018, she received habilitation as an Associate Professor in Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures (10/N1). In 2025, she obtained habilitation as a Full Professor in the same field.
In 2013 she won the IAA Prize for the best Assyriological article. The awarded article is: A Handbook from the Eduba a: an Old Babylonian Collection of Model Contracts , Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 101/2, 204-245 (2011).

Publications
Monographs (selection):
A. Archi G. Spada, Annual Documents Concerning Metal Expenditures (è) from Minister Ibrium's period, ARET 21, Wiesbaden: Harrassovitz, 2023.
A.R. George G. Spada, Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection. Part Two. School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts, CUSAS 43, University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2019.
F. D Agostino G. Spada A. Greco A. Bramanti, La lingua dei Sumeri, Milano: Hoepli 2019.
G. Spada, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Hilprecht Collection Jena, TMH 11, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018.
F. D Agostino M.S. Cingolo G. Spada, La lingua di Babilonia, Milano: Hoepli, 2016.
J. Black G. Spada, Texts from Ur kept in the Iraq Museum and the British Museum, Nisaba 19, Messina: DICAM, 2008.
G. Spada, Testi economici da Ur di periodo paleo-babilonese, Nisaba 12, Messina: DICAM, 2007.

Reviewed articles and contributions in volumes (last 5 years, selection):
G. Spada, The naditu Sometimes Borrows Silver Twice, in S. Alivernini, A. Bramanti, A. Greco, G. Spada (eds.) “And I Have Also Devoted Myself to the Art of Music” Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Franco D’Agostino Presented on His 65th Birthday by His Pupils, Colleagues, and Friends, dubsar 37, Münster: Zaphon, 2025, 139-152.
G. Spada, Old Babylonian Temple Loans: an Assessment, RSO 97, 2024, 149-164.
G. Spada, The Old Babylonian Temple Loans: The Archive of the Temple of Ura in Geraineh, in D. Charpin and A. Jacquet (eds.) Archibab 6. Archives paléobabyloniennes: 150 ans de publications et d études (1872 2022), Mémoires de NABU 24, Paris: SEPOA, 2024 (in press).
G. Spada - W.W. Hallo, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Arkeoloji Müzeleri of Istanbul, JCS 76, 2024, 53-101.
F. D Agostino - G. Spada, Animal husbandry, in L. Culbertson and G. Rubio (eds.), Society and Individual in Ancient Mesopotamia, SANER 33, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 147-177.
G. Spada, Duties, Responsibilities, and Management of Slaves in the Sumerian Model Contracts of the Hilprecht-Sammlung and Other Collections, in J. J. de Ridder and P. Stein (eds.), The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities. Essays dedicated to Manfred Krebernik during the Colloquium Held on March 17 18, 2022 at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, TMH 14, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023, 213-227.
G. Spada, A new Old Babylonian antichretic pledge, OrAn SN 5, 2023, 115-118.
G. Spada, A new Old Babylonian temple loan, OrAn SN 5, 2023, 119-122.
G. Spada, Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian period in the Rosen Collection, RA 116, 2022, 79-112.
G. Spada, Its interest is a food offering : Old Babylonian temple loans with the ma 2 m k lum formula, RSO 95, 2022, 89-101.
G. Spada, If a lion eats him , ArOr 89/3, 2021, 513-529.
G. Spada, Navigazione e leggi nella Mesopotamia del II millennio a.C. , OrAn SN 3, 2021, 153-163.
G. Spada, I want to break free . Model contracts recording slave self-emancipation , in P. Notizia, A. Rositani, L. Verderame (eds.), dNisaba za3-mi2. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Francesco Pomponio, dubsar 19, Münster: Zaphon, 2021, 283-299.
N. Reid - G. Spada, Old Babylonian contracts in the Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University , OrAn SN 2, 2020, 63-79.
N. Reid - G. Spada, From Oslo to Atlanta: an Old Babylonian prism collecting model contracts , RSO 93, 2020, 37-58.

In preparation :
A. Archi - G. Spada, Annual Documents Concerning Metal Expenditures (è) from Minister Ibbi-zikir's period, ARET 22, Wiesbaden: Harrassovitz, 2025.
F. D Agostino - G. Spada, The Lamentation over the Destruction of Eridu (New Edition).