The Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institute's faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as des
This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia,
Teeter, a research associate at the Institute, has selected 62 works from the over 25,000 in the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute at the U. of Chicago to provide the general reader and vi
Emberling's (Oriental Institute Museum, U. of Chicago) illustrated text supplements an exhibition held at the Oriental Institute, January to August 2010, and highlights the interconnected stories of t
This volume publishes the proceedings of the eleventh annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar. Its central goal is to present a cross-cultural study of the intersection between law and
"The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled "Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State," held at th
The fifth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held in March 2009, was titled Science and Superstition: Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Revised from presentations the
This volume, to accompany a special exhibit of the U. of Chicago's Oriental Institute, describes the life of Meresamun, a singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun, the pre-eminent god of Thebes in
This publication was produced in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2008, with the intention of giving visitors an idea of how muc
Brisch (U. of Chicago) edits international contributors providing 14 essays culled from a seminar at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in early 2007. Emerging themes from the confere
All but one of the 13 papers were delivered at a symposium held in May 2004 to mark the retirement of Gragg from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Two of them consider links between
The 16 papers are from a February 2006 seminar at the Chicago Oriental Institute that was called to interpret the social relevance of the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching Medite
This volume was dedicated to the memory of Klaus Baer, Professor in the Oriental Institute for over twenty years. The contributors are colleagues and/or students of Professor Baer, and their articles
This is the second volume in a series highlighting selected objects from each of the Institute's eight permanent collections, considering them both as art objects and archaeological evidence. The gall
This volume of the Assyrian-English dictionary was compiled by Hermann Hunger, Berkhart Kienast, and Matthew W. Stolper. The definitions and example quotations are in English, though some short quotat
Work on the T volume began in 1984, and was declared closed as of 1995, with no citations or references published after then being included. Among the words cited are some for which there is broad agr
Standing at the heart of Karnak Temple, the Great Hypostyle Hall is a forest of 134 giant sandstone columns enclosed by massive walls. Sety I built the Great Hypostyle Hall ca. 1300 BCE and decorated
This book explores what the Book of the Dead was to the ancient Egyptians, what it means to us today, what it was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and ultimately what happened to it. Ed
During the late third millennium BC one of the biggest transformations of the ancient Near East took place, affecting almost all regions from Egypt to Anatolia and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Ir
Muzahim Hussein's 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for archaeology. Although much is known of the Assyrian ki
Teeter is the author of a wide range of scholarly and popular articles that have been published in journals in the United States and abroad. Among her books are Ancient Egypt: Treasures from the Colle
Specialists in ancient languages of various regions offer insights into cuneiform in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, Egyptian writing, alphabetic writings, Anatolian hieroglyphs, China, and Mesoamerican hie
This is a collection of essays taken from the International Workshop held at Grey College, University of Durham in April 2006, entitled The Ubaid Expansion? Cultural Meaning, Identity and the Lead-up
With this volume, the Epigraphic Survey returns to its series of publications dedicated to the reliefs and inscriptions of the Medinet Habu complex, a series inaugurated in 1930 with the publication o
Draycott (Somerville College, Oxford) and Summers (archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara) report on excavations at Kerkenes Dag in Turkey. The city was an Iron Age Phrygian settlement.
Briggs joined the staff of the Dictionary in 1963, and will continue working on it though he retired as a professor of Assyriology at the U. of Chicago in June 2004, thus spawning this commemorative v
The present publication presents the final report of the last season's excavations at Tall-e Bakun A. The archaeological materials from this season are combined with the results of other pertinent da
Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? Recorded history began in the ancient Near East, but we are just beginning to explore the powerful cre
The projects were funded by American institutions and conducted under the auspices of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. This first volume reports on eight years of intensive fieldwork representing the
