Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD

email: lorenzo.verderame@uniroma1.it
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Lorenzo Verderame is Associate professor of Assyriology at the “Sapienza” University of Rome. After a four-year teaching contract in History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Palermo, in 2008 he gained the position of researcher in Assyriology at “Sapienza” University of Rome, becaming Associate Professore March the 1st 2019.
His research topics cover the range of cuneiform cultures of ancient Mesopotamia from the beginning of the third millennium B.C. to the first millennium B.C. One of the two main focuses of his research has been the third millennium administrative documents in Sumerian language, mainly from the Ur III period. The second focus of his research deals with the study of divination, mainly as documented in Akkadian sources from the first millennium B.C. Besides, he has carried out other major academic works on Sumerian literature and the Mesopotamian religious system; in particular, in recent years he has focused on the study of rituals and on aspects of material culture. Since 2012, he is carrying out a project on the unpublished Old Babylonian letters kept in the Yale Babylonian collection.
He is member and director of different national, as well as international, projects, such as the Ur Digitization Project at the British Museum. He is member of the International Association for Assyriology, and of the editorial board of the international journals Rivista degli Studi Orientali and SMSR - Studi e materiali di studi orientali. He actively collaborates with the Trustees of the British Museum in the publication project of Neo-Sumerian tablets. Since autumn 2013, he helds the role of head epigrapher of the joint archaeological excavation of “Sapienza” University of Rome, Università di Perugia, and the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities that is being undertaken in the ancient Sumerian town of Nina/Niĝin (Surghul), in south Iraq.