Massimo MAIOCCHI
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 6346
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massimo.maiocchi@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- History of Ancient Western Asia and the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean [STAA-01/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/massimo.maiocchi (personal record)
- Office
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Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Office hours
Office hours: Wednesday 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM or by appointment to be arranged via email. Location: office no. 1A09, Palazzo Malcanton.
Teaching activity current year
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [LT7]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FMR10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LETTERE [FTR3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: ARCHEOLOGIA, LETTERATURE E STORIA [FMR2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FTR5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Teaching activity previous years
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FMR10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: ARCHEOLOGIA, LETTERATURE E STORIA [FMR2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LETTERE [FT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LETTERE [FTR3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FTR5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [LT7]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LETTERE [FT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [LT7]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LETTERE [FT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [LT7]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LETTERE [FT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LETTERE [FT3]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Activities and research skills
- The Multimodality of Cadastral Plans in Babylonia
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- SSD:
- L-OR/03
- Other members of the research group:
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Paola CORO'
- Mapping and Annotating Plots (MAP): the Multimodality of Cadastral Plans in Antiquity (Babylonia and Rome)
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- Funding body:
- MUR - PNRR
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
-
Paola CORO'
Publication highlights
Massimo Maiocchi Legal Regulations at Ebla - An Overview , Keilschriftrecht zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Harrassowitz, vol. 43, pp. 39-55 (ISBN 978-3-447-12452-2) (ISSN 2365-5666)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109434
Massimo Maiocchi A Critical Examination of the Current Paradigms on the Origin of Writing in Mesopotamia in ENKI & PTAH, vol. 1, pp. 85-100 (ISSN 3103-5752)
DOI - URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109435
Massimo Maiocchi Legal Regulations at Ebla – Part I: Toward a New Understanding of ARET XVI, 1 in STUDIA EBLAITICA, vol. 11, pp. 107-128 (ISSN 2364-7124)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5110107
Massimo Maiocchi Three New IriKAgina “Reform” Fragments from Girsu in ARCHIV ORIENTÁLNÍ, vol. 93, pp. 27-42 (ISSN 0044-8699)
DOI - URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5110109
Francesco Di Filippo, Antonio Giovanni Iennaco, Massimo Maiocchi, Palmiro Notizia, Sasha Alessandro Volpi Per una storia economica delle prime città-stato in Mesopotamia e Siria: fonti, metodi e prospettive nel quadro del progetto “Urban Economy Begins” , Egitto e Vicino Oriente Antichi. Studi sull’Egitto il Vicino Oriente Antico in Italia., Firenze, Logisma, vol. 26, pp. 153-158, Convegno: Egitto e Vicino Oriente Antichi, 18-19/06/2024 (ISBN 979-12-82392-00-6) (ISSN 2283-2033)
2025,
Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5109433
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Massimo Maiocchi is an expert in History of the Ancient Near East,with special reference to early urbanization in between the late forth and the end of third millennia BCE.
He is PhD in Ancient Near East at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (2007) and a MA in Humanities at Ca' Foscari (2003). He has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France, 2020-2021), and post-doc at the University of Chicago (USA, 2012-2015). He also collaborated with the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, Los Angeles (USA, 2016). In addition, he has been a research fellow at Ca' Foscari, as well as at the Venice International University. Early in his education, he studied in Finland (University of Helsinki) and Germany (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen). In Chicago, he taught History of the Ancient Near East, Philology of cuneiform sources, History of Writing Systems. He took part in research missions in international institutions and museums: British Museum, Cornell University, Musée du Louvre, Iraq Museum.He also took part in archaeological missions and surveys in Syria (Urkesh, modern Tell Mozan) and Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan).
He published four monographs, as well as several articles in scientific journals, on topics such as: origin and diffusion of writing, grammatology, palaeography, organization of knowledge, palaeo-archivistics, techniques and technologies for the transmission of information in the ancient world, their impact in terms of cultural evolution and intellectual history; administration, accounting systems, standards for weights and measures, circulation of precious items; techniques for transformation and conservation of almentary products, palaeo-nutritional practices; social history; legal practices and law collections; developments in royal ideology in third and second millennia BCE; current methodologies for the study of ancient history.
His approach combines traditional research and Digital Humanities solutions, such as implementation of databases for the study of ancient inscriptions (Ebla Digital Archives; Archaic Text Graphemics), network analysis, and scripting.
He is part of an internationa network of research, including experts from France, Spain and United States. Presently, he has active collaborations with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Rome), as well as the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Nanterre, Francia). Since September 2023 he is P.I. for the project "Early Economy Begins", funded by PRIN.
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