BASELLO GIAN PIETRO

TITLES
- 2000: Degree in Eastern History (Storia Orientale) at the University of Bologna with the dissertation Calendrical Issues in the Achaemenid Elamite Sources. Tutors: prof. Antonio C.D. PANAINO & Sergio A. PICCHIONI; points: summa cum laude and worthy of publishing.
- 2005: PhD in Ancient Near East at ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples, department of Asian Studies, with the dissertation Cultura elamita e civiltà achemenide: continuità e trasformazioni (Elamite Culture and Achaemenid Civilization: Continuity and Change). Tutors: prof. Grazia GIOVINAZZO and Adriano V. ROSSI; entrance examination points: 115/120 and scholarship.
- 2010-2014: Postdoctoral research fellowship at ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples, department of Asian Studies, on the research project New critic and synoptic edition of the Achaemenid inscriptions from Susa and study of the onomastics from Susiana. Tutors: prof. Grazia GIOVINAZZO and Adriano V. ROSSI.
- 2015-2016: Postdoctoral research fellowship at Tuscia University (Viterbo), department of Scienze Umanistiche della Comunicazione e del Turismo (DISUCOM), on the research project Critic edition of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions from Susa – study of the textual production and translation strategies in the Achaemenid trilingual documentation under the scientific direction of prof. Ela FILIPPONE.
- 2014-2020: National qualification to associate professorship in sector 10/N1 (Civilizations of Ancient Near East, Middle East and Africa).
- 2018-2024: National qualification to associate professorship in sector 10/N1 (Civilizations of Ancient Near East, Middle East and Africa).
- 2018-2020: Tenured lecturer in Assyriology at ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples.
- 2020-present: Associate professor of Assyriology (L-OR/03) at ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples.

TEACHING
- 2005-2008: Adjunct professor of Assyriology, faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna.
- 2005-2008: Adjunct professor of Semitistic (L-OR/07), faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna.
- 2008-2010: Adjunct professor of History of the Ancient Near East, faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna.
- 2009-2011: Adjunct professor of Elamite Civilization, faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna.
- 2010-2017: Adjunct professor of Elamite (MA level), department Asia, Africa and Mediterranean of ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples.
- 2017: Adjunct professor of History of Ancient and Late-Antique Iran (BA level) and Iranic Philology (MA level), department Asia, Africa and Mediterranean of ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples.
- 2018-present: Tenured lecturer and then Associate professor of Elamite (MA level), History of Ancient and Late-Antique Iran (BA level) and Iranic Philology (MA level), department Asia, Africa and Mediterranean of ‘L’Orientale’ University of Naples.
- 2019: Guest professor of Civilization and language of Elam and Achaemenid royal epigraphy, Universität Innsbruck (Austria).

As tutor and co-tutor, I have followed MA and PhD theses at “L’Orientale” University of Naples, the University of Bologna, the University of Tehran and the University of Sydney. The subjects were either philological or archaeological, ranging from Elamite to Achaemenid and also late-antique Iran. I have also acted as MA and PhD thesis examiner, referee and scholarship nominer for the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of Athens, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York), the University of Sydney and the Macquarie University (Sydney). I have acted as peer reviewer for the journals Mythos, Annali (‘L’Orientale’), Topoi Orient Occident, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Oriens Antiquus, Sefer Yuḥasin (‘L’Orientale’), East and West (ISMEO, Roma), Iranica Antiqua and other miscellaneous proceedings publications.

PROJECTS
- Member of the DARIOSH project (Digital Achaemenid Royal Inscription Open Schema Hypertext) as specialist of Achaemenid Elamite and Late Babylonian languages. The project, directed by prof. Adriano V. ROSSI (ISMEO), aims at the study of the Achaemenid inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, the National Museum of Iran (Tehran) and the Parsa-Pasargadae Research Foundation. The project has been funded four times as a National Interest Research Program (2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2011-2012, 2015-2016).
- Member of the Italian Ethno-Linguistic Mission in Tajikistan directed by prof. Antonio C.D. PANAINO (University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna) and devoted to the study of the Yaghnob valley and of the yaghnobi language.

SELECTED LECTURES IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
- ‘Babylonia and Elam: The Evidence of the Calendars’, 3rd International Meeting of the Melammu Project, 2000 October 28, Chicago.
- ‘Persia and Elam: The Evidence of the Calendars. The Spellings of Old Persian Month-Names in Achaemenid Elamite’, 5th International Conference of Iranian Studies, 2003 October 10, Ravenna.
- ‘Finding a Name for an Archaeological Finding: The Sit Šamši from Šuš’, 2004 September 27, Center for Achaemenid Studies, National Museum of Iran, Tehran.
- ‘From Kesat to Persepolis: Places, Men and Gods in the Bronze Plaque of Ururu’, Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives, Ghent University, 2009 December 15, Ghent.
- ‘The 3D Model from Susa called Sit Shamshi. An Essay of Interpretation’, Eine Frage des Rituals. Rituale als Quelle für unsere Kenntnis der Religionen und Weltbilder in den Kulturen des Altertums, Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, Università “Sapienza” of Rome and by SBF 619 Ritualdynamik of the Universität Heidelberg, 2011 November 29, Rome.
- ‘Of Gods and Men in the Persepolis Bronze Plaque’, La religion des Achéménides : Confrontation des sources, Collège de France, 2013 November 7, Paris.
- ‘Administrative Topography in Comparison: Overlapping Jurisdictions in the Acropole Tablets from Susa and in the Persepolis Fortification Tablets (6th Century BC)’, Topography and Toponymy in the Ancient Near East: Perspectives and Prospects, Université catholique de Louvain, 2014 February 28, Louvain-la-Neuve.
- ‘Fonti di periodo achemenide per lo studio della storia d’Israele’, 2014 December 16, Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Rome.
- ‘Missing Evidence? The Case of Elamite Cuneiform Culture’, 2nd Susa & Elam Conference, 2015 July 6-9, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2015 July 8.
- ‘Use, abuse and recovery of the past in Elam (and Babylonia)’, Elam and Its Neighbors. Recent Research and New Perspectives, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 2016 September 22, Mainz.
- ‘«The Persian boys who are sapi-ing texts»: Copying administrative documents and royal inscriptions in Elam’, Textual and Material Craftsmanship: What Does Copying a Manuscript Mean?, “L’Orientale” University of Naples, in collaboration with the University of Hamburg in the framework of the research programme SFB 950/CSMC, 2016 October 6, “L’Orientale” University.
- ‘Tre pezzi di Elam in Italia: i mattoni elamici della collezione Burri’, Dalla Statale al Cairo, in ricordo di Carla Maria BURRI, 2017 May 2, Università degli Studi di Milano.
- ‘Of referents, palaeography, and Akkadian usage in Elam: Reflections on two brick inscriptions from Chogha Zanbil (MDP41 IV-V)’, Elam und seine Nachbarn – Eine wechselvolle Beziehung. 10. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2019 April 10.
- ‘In Iran before the Persians: a journey to ancient Elam’, 2019 June 4, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, Universität Innsbruck, Atrium – Zentrum für Alte Kulturen, Innsbruck, Austria.
- with Julien CUNY, in proxy of Günter SCHWEIGER, ‘New results from the Louvre-Dariosh project on Achaemenid royal inscriptions fragments’, 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Berlin, 9 September 2019, Freie Universität Berlin.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
- Fifth International Conference of Iranian Studies, 2003 October 6-11, Ravenna.
- Introduction to the Ethnolinguistics of Yaghnobi I & II (Summer School), 2007 June 25 - July 6 and 2008 September 15-26, Ravenna.
- Territorial System and Ideology in the Achaemenid State: Persepolis and Its Settlements, 2010 December 16-17, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo.
- The Persepolis Fortification Tablets against their Elamite background; Achaemenid Elamite and Iranian-Elamite language interference, intensive classes held by Wouter F.M. HENKELMAN (École pratique des hautes études, Paris), “L’Orientale” University of Naples, 2012 October 29 - November 2.
- The Elamite Cultural Heritage of Persia, intensive class held by Javier ÁLVAREZ-MON (Macquarie University, Sydney), 2014 October 28-30, “L’Orientale” University of Naples.
- Achaemenid Studies Today, Mid-Term Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea, organized jointly by “L’Orientale” University of Naples and ISMEO (Rome), , Napoli, 2017 December 11 -13.
- With Antonio PANAINO (Università di Bologna), Carlo CERETI (Sapienza Università di Roma) & Adriano V. ROSSI (ISMEO), joint webinar Ongoing researches in Iranian Studies, 2020 May 13 and June 3.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
- The eXtensible Markup Languages for the Human Sciences (), doctoral course organized at ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, 2004 May 17-21.

EXHIBITIONS
- Gli Assiri all’ombra del Vesuvio, curator with R. LORETO, N. BORRELLI, F. D’ALONZO, under the scientific direction of Simonetta GRAZIANI, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, from 3 July to 16 September 2019, with loans from British Museum, Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Vatican Museus, Musei Reali (Torino) and other Italian museums.