# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-pettinato
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:05:00.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-pettinato"
name: "Giovanni Pettinato"
slug: "giovanni-pettinato"
description: "Giovanni Pettinato was an Assyriologist and paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language, His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by Paolo Matthiae in 1974–75."
tagline: "Italian orientalist (1934–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Giovannipettinatto.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-09-27"
deathDate: "2011-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.545825333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "جوفاني بيتيناتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوفانى بيتيناتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pettinato"
    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pettinato"
    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pettinato"
    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pettinato"
    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pettinato"
    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pettinato"
    title: "Giovanni Pettinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump