Simo Parpola a obtenu son doctorat en assyriologie à l’université d’Helsinki en 1971.
En 1991, le Syndicat finlandais des professeurs l’a nommé «Professeur de l’année».
En 2007, il a cofondé l’association Finlande-Assyrie et en a assuré la première présidence.
Dans son ouvrage Etymological Dictionary of the Sumerian Language, publié en 2016, Simo Parpola avance que la langue sumérienne appartient au groupe des langues ouraliennes et qu’elle est, par conséquent, également apparentée à la langue finnoise.
Ouvrages
Simo Parpola, Etymological Dictionary of the Sumerian Language I-II. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2016.
Simo Parpola (ed.) Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008. (ISBN978-952-10-1332-4)
Simo Parpola, Michael Porter, The Helsinki Atlas of the Ancient Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.
Simo Parpola, Veysel Donbaz, Neo-Assyrian Legal Texts in Istanbul. Studien zu den Assur-Texten, Bd. 2. Saarbücken: Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, 2001. (ISBN978-3-930843-64-0)
Simo Parpola, Andreas Fuchs, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Media and Babylonia. State Archives of Assyria 15. Helsinki University Press, 2001.
Simo Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies. State Archives of Assyria 9. Helsinki University Press, 1997.
Simo Parpola, The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts 1. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1997.
Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. State Archives of Assyria 10. Helsinki University Press, 1993.
Simo Parpola, T. Kwasman, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. State , Archives of Assyria 6. Helsinki University Press, 1991.
Simo Parpola, G. B. Lanfranchi, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. State Archives of Assyria 5. Helsinki University Press, 1990.
Simo Parpola, Kazuko Watanabe, Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths. State Archives of Assyria 2. Helsinki University Press, 1988. (ISBN978-951-570-034-6)
Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. State Archives of Assyria 1. Helsinki University Press, 1987.
Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, Part II: Commentary and Appendices, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 5/2, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Butzon & Bercker, 1983.
Simo Parpola, Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Part 53: Neo-Assyrian Letters from the Kuyunjik Collection. London, 1979.
Simo Parpola, Asko Parpola, Seppo Koskenniemi, A Concordance to the Indus Inscriptions. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Series B 185. Helsinki, 1973.
Simo Parpola, Neo-Assyrian Toponyms. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 6, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Butzon & Bercker, 1970.
Simo Parpola, Asko Parpola, Seppo Koskenniemi, P. Aalto, Decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian Inscriptions of the Indus Civilization. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Special Publications 1. Copenhagen, 1969.
Références
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