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. From 1974 until 1987 she was the director of Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, where she was also editor of the series Incunabula Graeca and the journal Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici. She was coordinator of Mycenaean philology within the department of Greek and Latin Philology from 1988 until 2010.
Sacconi's work includes editions of Linear B texts, including editions of the Linear B vase inscriptions in 1974 and a supplement in 2017. She also published the Linear B tablets from Thebes, along with Vassilis Aravantinos and Louis Godart.

Selected publications