Catalogue of artifacts in the babylonian collection of the lowie museum of anthropology

A descriptive catalogue of 49 ancient Near Eastern terracottas, 23 stone artifacts, and 86 ancient Mesopotamian and Sassanian seals in the Babylonian Collection of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the Univerity of California, Berkeley.  15 pages of black and white plates containing 96 individu...

Letters from turkey, 1939-1946

When Georgianna Maynard went to Turkey in 1939 with her husband, Dick Maynard, she expected romance but found reality. The expected five year stay was extended to seven with the outbreak of World War II. The day-to-day struggle to cope with life as a young, married couple trapped in a foreign cou...

Roman sculpture in context

This volume tackles a pressing issue in Roman art history: that many sculptures conventionally used in our scholarship and teaching lack adequate information about their find locations. Through case studies, the book illustrates ways to contextualize ancient objects.

Studies in manuscript illumination, 1200-1400

This volume compiles twenty-six studies centred on illuminated manuscripts created in 13th and 14th century England, especially illuminated psalters. The book delves into the marginal illustrations in these psalters and includes iconographic studies. Additionally, it covers illustrated encycloped...

The assyrian dictionary, volume 12, p

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

Women at the dawn of history

This book explores the position of women in the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia. As well as mothers, daughters, or wives, they were also authors and scholars, business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to gods and goddesses, and regents exercising power ...

Hebrew union college annual vol 90

Hebrew Union College Annual is the journal of the Hebrew Union College.  Published annually, it is an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present. 

John of garland's 'integumenta ovidii'

John of Garland wrote Integumenta Ovidii (Allegories on Ovid) in early C13th Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. This edition presents the Latin text with facing-page modern English translation and comprehensive explanatory notes to help readers understand John’s al...

Old school

This new, expanded edition brings readers inside the dojos of the ancient schools of Japanese martial arts, analysing the evolution of Japanese weaponry, addressing the myth and reality of Japan's naginata-wielding warrior women, and discussing the modern relevance of the blood oaths, magical rit...

Life of meresamun

Companion to the 2009 exhibit, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute Museum. The study of the life of this individual is augmented by forensic evidence obtained with the newest generation of CT scanners that sheds l...

Early medieval elite jewellery from great moravia and bohemia

The technological approach developed in this publication provides new insights into Great Moravian and Bohemian elite jewellery dated from the 9th and 10th centuries AD. It sheds light on the complex construction of these jewels, on the different manufacturing processes, and on the decoration tec...

Chaucerian dream visions and complaints

This particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes with by far t...

Craft specialization and social evolutio

This volume stems from a symposium on the centenary of V. Gordon Childe's birth. Childe, the first scholar to attempt a broad socioeconomic analysis of ancient archaeology, emphasized the crucial role of craft specialization in social evolution. Contributors include David W. Anthony, Philip J. Ar...

The logic of al-fanārī

This is a comprehensive study and annotated translation of al-Fanārī’s famous commentary on the Īsāghūjī, a foundational work in the Ottoman seminary tradition. It includes a plain-English representation of al-Fanari’s commentary enhanced by the inclusion of helpful explanations drawn from variou...

Outward appearance versus inward significance

This volume takes a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to dress studies in the ancient world. Spanning a wide geographic spectrum, from the Near East and North Africa to the Mediterranean world and the Americas, it explores the cultural, social, and political significance of attire.

Agora excavations, 1931-2006

A pictorial history of the archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic centre of classical Athens, illustrated with many archival photographs and primary documents. It focuses on some key moments in the Agora's history including the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos and the restorati...

Göltepe excavations

This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners' village, Göltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel, in the central Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey.

An investigation into early desert pastoralism

Case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasonal encampment from this early period in the evolution of desert pastoral societies. The first detailed analysis of this culture and includes materials ...

Bridge of the untiring sea

Pindar's metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of 17 essays on the history and archaeology of the area. The Isthmus, best known for the panhellenic Sanctuary of Poseidon, attracted travelers both befor...

Oton de granson, poems

Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of the fourteenth century. This new translation makes Granson's poetry available again to English read...

The late third millennium in the ancient near east

Three major topics are covered: The radiocarbon evidence for the mid to late third millennium BC Near East, the chronological implications of new dates and how historical/archaeological chronologies should/could be adapted, and - based on this evidence - if and how climate change can be related t...

The carnyx in iron age europe: the deskford carnyx in its european context

The carnyx, an animal-headed bronze horn, once echoed across Iron Age Europe. Now, after centuries of silence, this book presents a full picture of this dramatic instrument. It considers the rare surviving fragments, with a detailed study of the Deskford carnyx from north-east Scotland, alongside...

Tablettes du princeton theological seminary

The medieval dagger

Guy Windsor presents a complete guide to Italian dagger combat, as set down in Il Fior di Battaglia, a manuscript written in 1410. Readers are guided through the processes of this six hundred year old art, from guard positions to steps and turns; from disarms to locks and takedowns; from safe fal...

Uch tepe ii

Second of three final reports on the joint expedition of the Oriental Institute and the Carsten Niebuhr Institute in the Hamrin Salvage project of Iraq. The technical reports consist of neutron activation and chemical studies on pottery and mudbrick, and a discussion of the function of the Round ...

Women talk (greek language edition)

Poets and Nobel literature laureates Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis and poets Yiannis Ritsos and Kostas Varnalis, recipients of the International Lenin Peace Prize are represented in this series of interviews, highlighting the human side of the poets, and the personalities of these extraordin...

Studies in the booktrade of the european enlightenment

A collection of studies by Giles Barber from leading British and European bibliographical journals over 30 years, a fusion of Anglo-Saxon and French analytical bibliography, leading to the "history of the book" approach. It covers book production, bookselling and the dynamics of the trade, shaped...

Delphes et son musée

The three sites at Delphi (the Sanctuary of Apollo, the Sanctuary of Athena and the Gymnasium) and the Museum are described in detail. Covers the Pythian festival and the Delphic rituals. Written in an accessible style; incorporates the results of the latest research and conservation of the sanct...