Aramaica Neapolitana, "Annali - Istituto Orientale di Napoli" 73 (2013) 3-13

The proceedings of the small but incisive conference on '3000 Years of Aramaic in Mesopotamia' (Naples, July 2012) are here introduced in their thematic outlines against the background of five decades of Aramaic studies at the University of Naples "L'Orientale"