The sinai peninsula

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 7.1 (2015) contributes to a greater understanding and appreciation of the rich heritage of the Sinai Peninsula in its role as a key land bridge Africa and Asia and as a region important in its own right.

The hexamilion and the fortress

This fifth volume in the Isthmia series examines earlier attempts to fortify the Isthmus of Corinth and presents the most important testimonia for historical interpretation. The archaeological remains of the Hexamilion are traced from the Gulf of Corinth to the Saronic Gulf, with topographical ma...

The roland and otuel romances and the anglo-norman otinel

Four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included.

The oriental institute 2008-2009 annual report

The Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report contains yearly summaries of the activities of the Institute's faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

A window on their world

The court diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim (d. 1795), a member of the rabbinic court of late eighteenth-century Frankfurt, shed light on daily life in the Judengasse ("Jewish lane"), home to over 3,000 people, including Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the famous banking family.

The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at lofkend, albania

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

Coping with obscurity

The papers presented at Brown University's Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar in 2013 discussed the grammatical value of written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). They present orthographic, lexical, morphological and syntactic approaches, and are a n...

Pseira vi

Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan cemetery at Pseira in 1907, but the work was never published. Pseira VI publishes the methodology that was employed for the investigation, the topography of the cemetery area, the ceramic petrography for the cemetery pottery, and the results of the intensive...

Hebrew union college annual

The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present. 

The complete renaissance swordsman

Translated into English for the first time, this book includes a valuable and extensive technical introduction, with illustrations from both original sources and modern photographs. Antonio Manciolino's instructions are easy to follow, sword-in-hand, even by beginners, while providing years of tr...

The archaeology of xenitia

In this volume, new archaeological data from Epeiros, Kythera, Keos, the Southern Argolid and the Nemea Valley highlight the effects of emigration, and data from Colorado, Philadelphia and Sydney illustrate the effects of immigration.

Palestine in the evolution of syrian nationalism (1918-1920)

Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism analyzes the place of Palestine in the development of Syrian nationalism from the inception of Syria as a modern nation-state following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.

The evolution of the human mind

In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical science—from the Paleolithic to the present—vividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience.

King david

The Bible contains many doublets: conflicting accounts of the same event. These are a challenge to faith: if the Bible is the Word of God, how can it differ from itself? This book regards the Bible as words of men about God, and sees the doublets as evidence of growth over time, as an early opini...

Hebrew union college annual volume 62

Antoin sevruguin

This volume publishes for the first time the Oriental Institute Museum’s complete collection of nineteenth-century Iranian photographs, most of which were created by Antoin Sevruguin.

The saint play in medieval europe

This illustrated volume provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis.

The greek chest (english language edition)

For centuries, the chest was the only piece of storage furniture to be found in the Greek home. Highly valuable as a functional item, connected with everyday events and the most important stations in a person's life (birth, marriage and death) the chest has profound, symbolic meaning in the imagi...

The sumerian texts from ancient iraq

Unique study of 145 tablets, from an unknown site near Nippur in Southern Iraq.  The tablets are the documents of a high official named Aradmu, and detail routine agricultural operations, including receipts and grain loans. The tablets were repatriated to Iraq in late 2010.

Moche fineline painting from san jose de moro

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Studies a sample of more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro, providing insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record ...

Rethinking mycenaean palaces ii

This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters.

Pottery and society

Philip P. Betancourt revolutionised the study of Minoan pottery--just one of the many aspects of his career that led to his Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This volume presents some of the most recent studies in Minoan pottery using the techniques and methodologies pione...

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume s, fascicle 1 (sa- to saptamenzu)

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking ...

Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration ii

These Hittite text fragments are part of a large collection found during the early Turkish-German excavations at the Hittite capital Hattusa before the Second World War. This book offers a large number of unpublished text fragments from the collection, both photographed and in transliteration, al...

The ethiopian legend of solomon and sheba

The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is best known for her legendary meeting with King Solomon, an encounter that has resonated through time, nowhere more powerfully than in Ethiopia. 95 colo...

Mummings and entertainments

This book presents a large sampling of the dramatic texts of John Lydgate, the preeminent poet of fifteenth-century England. These verses are, as Claire Sponsler notes in her introduction, 'of great importance for literary and theatrical history.'

Commentary on the song of songs

The commentary of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. ca. 1245) on the Song of Songs is one of the most important texts of the first clearly identified circle of Kabbalists, those operating in the Catalonian town of Gerona at the middle of the thirteenth century.

The gymnasium area

This work presents the marble sculpture found in the Gymnasium Area at Corinth, dating between the C6th B.C. and C5th A.D. It provides insight into sculptural practices after the founding of the Roman colony at Corinth, and knowledge of display context and reuse of sculpture at a gymnasium in a l...

The roman aqaba project

This first of three projected volumes of the project’s final report focuses on the regional environment and the regional survey. Analysis of the environment employs a wide range of evidence to analyse the physiography, geology, soils, seismic history, climate and natural resources.

The roman marble sculptures from the sanctuary of pan at caesarea philippi/panias (israel)

This is the first publication on a deposit of broken marble statues, discovered in 1992 during excavations of the Roman Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi , in Panias, Israel.  

Ritual landscape and performance

Ritual Landscape and Performance contains various articles discussing the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia.

In service of the duke

Writing in the mid-15th century, Master Paulus Kal was the agent and fencing master to the powerful Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria. In this fencing book prepared for his ducal patron he presented in beautifully rendered and highly detailed illuminations figures wielding the sword, sword and buckler, d...

The merit of our mothers

The prayers in this volume are characterized by a highly personal and intimate style and mark occasions in the religious calendar, such as the Tkhine for the Blessing of the New Moon, as well as occasions in the life of a woman, such as the Tkhine for a Mother who Leads Her Child to Kheyder for t...

Charilaos trikupis mia biographici periigisi

Biography of Harilaos Trikoupis, Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895. 600 colour illustrations: photographs, paintings and prints, newspaper cuttings, maps and cartoons, mostly unpublished until now. Provides insight into his family and political environment. Greek language ...

The petra church

The Petra Church offers detailed scholarship about the excavation of the church itself but also about the historical environment of the communities living in the Petra area, a historical and archaeological city, capital of the kingdom of the Nabataeans in southern Jordan. Illustrated throughout i...

The temple of apollo bassitas iv

The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes. Volume IV contains maps, plans, and drawings in oversize format illustrating volumes I and II.

Modalities in medieval jewish law for public order and safety

The history of medieval Jewry presents one inescapable fact: the Jews were a people apart. No matter where or when we find a Jewish community in the Middle Ages, it was an alien enclave within a host society which was sometimes cordial to it and sometimes not.

Roger federer

Roger Federer's sporting exploits are well-known, but who is the man behind them? This book captures the Federer phenomenon over fifteen thematically arranged chapters. And there's no shortage of anecdotes: the book is as entertaining as Federer's game.

Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration i

The unpublished text fragments are part of a large collection that had been found during the early German campaigns at the Hittite capital Hattusa before the Second World War. The fragments were taken to the Staatliche Museen in Berlin and were returned to the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civiliza...