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.
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Lived 1934 to 2011 · aged 76
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