Anna Sacconi

Anna Sacconi is an Italian Professor Emeritus of Aegean civilisation at La Sapienza, University of Rome. She is known for her work on the corpus of Linear B vase inscriptions and Linear B tablets from Thebes.

Career

Sacconi studied classical philology at La Sapienza, she was first assistant professor of Greek literature and lecturer in Mycenaean philology before becoming professor of Aegean Civilisation in 1975. She was coordinator of Mycenaean philology within the department of Greek and Latin Philology from 1988 until 2010. She also published the Linear B tablets from Thebes, along with Vassilis Aravantinos and Louis Godart. She has produced exegetical studies too, regarding religion, myths and society in comparison with the Near Ancient East. Sacconi is a prolific author and has produced more than 150 scientific works, exceeding her technical topic to a wider perspective on the Mycenaean culture.

Selected publications

with Louis Godart. (2017) Supplemento al Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B. ed. with Ernesto De Miro, Louis Godart. (1996). Atti e memorie del secondo Congresso internazionale di micenologia: Roma-Napoli, 14-20 ottobre 1991. Roma: Gruppo editoriale internazionale. . with Vassilis L. Aravantinos, Eleni Andrikou, Louis Godart, Joanita Vroom. (2006). Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmèe. II.2: Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou. Le contexte archéologique, La céramique de la Odos Pelopidou et la chronologie du linéaire B. with Vassilis L. Aravantinos, Louis Godart. (2002) Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmèe. III: Corpus des documents d’archives en linéaire B de Thèbes (1–433). with Aravantinos, V., Godart, L. (2001). Thèbes: Fouilles de la Cadmée. I, Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou: édition et commentaire. ed. (1988). Michael Ventris. Work notes on Minoan language research and other unedited papers. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo. with Louis Godart. (1978). Les tablettes en linéaire B de Thèbes. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo & Bizzarri. (1974). Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo.