Materiale epigrafico per la ricostruzione dei contatti nel Mediterraneo tra il 1200 a.C. e il 500 a.C.

My Degree Thesis Materiale epigrafico per la ricostruzione dei contatti nel Mediterraneo tra il 1200 a.C. e il 500 a.C. intends to illustrate the complex relations, established among the various peoples settled in the Mediterranean sea-shores and in their vicinity, between 1200 B.C. and 500 B.C., which can be seen in the available inscriptions, above all the Greek and Semitic ones (Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic and Assyrian); but in this Degree Thesis I consider also the Hittite, Egyptian, Phrygian, Etrusk, and Celtic inscriptions, et cetera. The above mentioned dates concern two crucial events, which perturbed the Mediterranean Sea: the attacks of the Sea Peoples, which destroyed the Hittite Empire and weakened the Egypt, and the so-called Persian wars. The considered inscriptions are 1546, almost always transliterated, translated, with a photo or a drawing, essential bibliography and a very little comment. The drawn picture well attests the complexity of the relations in that period: we must consider the hundreds of Greek graffiti found in Naukratis, in Egypt, or the tens of Greek inscriptions discovered at Gravisca. Also the Aramaic and Assyrian inscriptions attest intense relations between Syria and Mesopotamia. Also Iran and Arabia show, directly or indirectly, connections with Greece and Etruria. With my work I hope to suggest the idea that it is necessary the scholars of Greek and Semitic things cooperate to the reconstruction of four centuries of the History of the Near Eastern, and that the theory of Joseph Naveh, who hypothesized the Greek alphabets originated in the 12th century in the Canaanite coast, is valid.