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  • Back to School in Babylonia
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    Back to School in Babylonia

    This volume—companion to the exhibition 'Back to School in Babylonia' of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period. The essays offer a history of House F at Nippur and the catalogue presents the 126 objects, mainly...

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  • Anthroponymie et Anthropologie de Nuzi, Volume 1
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    Anthroponymie et Anthropologie de Nuzi, Volume 1

    Details the personal names found on cuneiform tablets from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nuzi.

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  • An Archaic Recording System and the Origin of Writing

    A recording system based on tokens, spread throughout the Near East from the early Neolithic on, is proposed as a possible but demonstrable antecedent of the cuneiform writing system. Consisting of a rich and differentiated repertory of shapes and markings, this token system is more complex than ...

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  • Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods
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    Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods

    The studies in this volume share a focus on religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: how ritual, myth, spectatorship, and travel reflect the continual interaction of human beings.

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  • Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts

    The studies in this volume examine the knowledge and ideas about the natural and human world as reflected in the Aramaic texts of Qumran. Two questions guide the individual essays: What knowledge and what methods did they adopt from Mesopotamia? And how did they adapt this knowledge to their mono...

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  • Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources

    How were ancient textual sources used and manipulated? How can this help us understand the dissemination of religious and mythological knowledge in different historical contexts? These essays on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome analyze the reuse of texts from different contexts...

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  • Ancient Seals and the Bible

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  • Frauen in Altsumerischer Zeit

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  • A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit

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  • The Neo-Sumerian Silver Ring Texts

    This study focuses attention on a particular type of documents from the Ur III period in Mesopotamia, documents which record gifts of silver rings to various individuals.

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  • Assyrian Documents in the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva

    Three Neo-Assyrian legal and administrative tablets and four Middle Assyrian administrative fragments, probably mostly from Assur, are discussed here. The texts are published in copy and transliteration, with transliterations and commentary where appropriate.

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  • The Late Babylonian Texts of the Oriental Institute Collection

    In this volume D.B. Weisberg publishes the 54 cuneiform texts, almost all legal texts, from Uruk dated to the Seleucid and Arsacid periods which are preserved in the Tablet Collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

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  • Le leggi medioassire

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  • Interrogative Constructions with jn and jn-jw in Old and Middle Egyptian

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  • Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Final Reports, Volume 1
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    Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Final Reports, Volume 1

    This book presents results of the excavation by the Combined Caesarea Expeditions which explored the city and harbour of ancient Caesarea, built by the Jewish king Herod the Great at the end of the first century BCE. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the transition from ...

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  • The Royal Palace of Ebla

    This essay presents a preliminary picture of the 1973-1975 excavations of the Tell Mardikh (Ebla) Royal Palace G, in Syria, which dates to Early Bronze IVA ( ca. 2400-2250 B.C.).

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  • The Rabbeans

    This study deals with the West Semitic nomadic tribe of the Rabbeans who at the time of the Mart archives belonged to the Benjaminite confederation and controlled one of the mixed urbantribal states on the upper Middle Euphrates.

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  • The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East

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  • Reconstructing History from Ancient Inscriptions

    From about 2500 to 2350 B.C.the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma contested the right to a tract of land on their common border. Their dispute is documented by a series of inscriptions filled with claims and counterclaims. This volume makes available for the first time complete English tran...

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  • Structure of Society and State in Early Dynastic Sumer [1959]

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  • Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, Volume 12
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    Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, Volume 12

    The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies.

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  • Babylonian Planetary Omens Part I
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    Babylonian Planetary Omens Part I

    The first in an intended series of studies of the canonical corpus of celestial omens, Enuma Anu Enlil. Tablet 63, the 'Venus' tablet, forms the basis of this study. Enuma Anu Enlil is the name by which the series of celestial omens was known to the Babylonians.

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  • Living Bodies, Dead Bodies, and the Cosmos

    Which concepts about humans, their physical existence, and the world are universal, and which are culturally specific and historically diverse? This volume explores concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regi...

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  • Ancient Messene (Greek language edition)
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    Ancient Messene (Greek language edition)

    A concise presentation of the archaeological site of Ancient Messene. This book, illustrated in colour throughout, will guide the visitor through the site, while also providing a brief introduction to the history of Messene and to the story of the site’s more recent development. Greek language ed...

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  • Old Babylonian Texts from Kish Conserved in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

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  • The Arena of Tiglath-pileser III's Campaign against Sarduri II (743 BC)

    In 743 B.C. Tiglath-pileser III led a victorious march against Sarduri of Urartu and his vassals in the historic Armenian Highlands. A comparison of the four extant Assyrian relations of that campaign yields a clear picture of its geographical arena.

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  • The Akkadian Namburbu Texts

    Namburbi is the title of a group of typical Babylonian incantations, used to "undo" or avert portended evil. This book explains the nature of the texts and the ritual associated with them, and provides translations of 14 representative texts.

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  • New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria

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  • Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia, Chiefly from Nippur Part I

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  • Collations to Neo-Assyrian Legal Texts from Nineveh

    This work presents around 300 of the corpus of legal texts from the imperial archives of Nineveh. These texts a source of foremost importance not only to the study of the legal practices and economic life of the Neo-Assyrian empire, but above all to the prosopography and chronology of the period.

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  • Mozan 1

    Preliminary soundings were conducted at Tell Mozan in the north-central portion of the Khabur plains in 1984 and 1985. This volume reports on the finds made as well as on various aspects of research goals of the project.

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  • Extraction & Control
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    Extraction & Control

    Matthew Wolfgang Stolper began working for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary in 1978 and became full professor in the Oriental Institute 1987, focusing on Neo-Babylonian and Middle Elamite. The twenty-six papers from Stolper's colleagues, friends, and students show the breadth of his interests.

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  • Studies in Ishchali Documents

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  • The Rituals of the Diviner

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  • Explaining Trade in Ancient Western Asia

    A comparative examination of two books on ancient trade (Trade in the Ancient Near East, ed. J. D. Hawkins, 1977 and Ancient Civilizations and Trade, eds. J. A. Sabloff and C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky 1975) provides the opportunity to juxtapose bodies of data and theory in the interpretation of Mesopo...

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  • The Middle Assyrian Laws

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  • Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles

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  • Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
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    Esarhaddon, King of Assyria

    Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. She examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's accession to the throne in 681 BCE, his rebuilding of Babylon, his successful campaigns, and his ultimate ...

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  • Five Tablets from the Southern Wing of Palace G at Ebla

    The five tablets published here were discovered during the campaigns of 1982 and 1984 in the southern wing of Palace G at EblaThey represent the most recently discovered epigraphic finds from Ebla, in present-day Syria.

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  • Hurrian Personal Names in the Rimah Archives

    This study collects the Hurrian personal names preserved in the Old Babylonian tablets uncovered at Tell al-Rimah.

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  • The Court of the Palms

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  • Qraya Modular Reports, 1

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  • A Leo Oppenheim, 1904-1974; Assur Notes on Some Nineveh Horse Lists

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  • Prelude to Empire
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    Prelude to Empire

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  • Gli eponimi medio-assiri

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  • Les sattukku dans l'Esumesa durant la periode d'Isin et Larsa

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  • The Harab Myth

    Transliteration and translation of a Lat Babylonian text, followed by an extensive commentary. The Harab myth presents a new theme in Mesopotamian mythology, that of succeeding generations of gods who come to power through parricide and live in incest with mother, sister, or both.

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  • Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East

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  • Vedic Ideals of Sovereignty and the Poetics of Power
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    Vedic Ideals of Sovereignty and the Poetics of Power

    This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry.

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  • Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 53 (2017)
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    Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 53 (2017)

    Volume 53 of Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), published by Lockwood Press. C. 30 b&W illustrations.

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  • Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies Volume 9 (2017)
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    Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies Volume 9 (2017)

    Latest volume of The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies(JCSCS) is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studie.

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  • Egyptomania and Beyond
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    Egyptomania and Beyond

    The relationships between ancient Egypt and other cultures transcend time, so in this volume of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 8 (2016) the reader will find a sampling of the diverse ways in which these have manifested.  

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  • A Royal Book of Protection of the Saite Period
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    A Royal Book of Protection of the Saite Period

    A comprehensive examination of a Late Period hieratic papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum, a compilation of seventeen individual prophylactic texts whose anatomical focus is the ear. Many of the texts state that they are intended for the protection of the ears of a king named Psamtik, a historical fig...

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  • Gold of Praise
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    Gold of Praise

    This Festschrift in honor of Prof. Edward F. Wente contains contributions by forty-three of his colleagues and friends.

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  • Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 54 (2018)
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    Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 54 (2018)

    The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes articles on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or German.

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  • Kom el-Hisn (ca. 2500 - 1900 BC)
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    Kom el-Hisn (ca. 2500 - 1900 BC)

    This volume presents the findings of the excavation at Kom el-Hisn in the northwest Nile Delta. This provincial community was often in the orbit of Memphis, the capital and administrative centre of Egypt's Old Kingdom Period. Kom el-Hisn's faunal, floral, lithic and architectural remains are pres...

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  • Schrift und Material

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  • A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Vol. Four
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    A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Vol. Four

    The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

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  • A Manual of Egyptian Pottery
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    A Manual of Egyptian Pottery

    The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

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  • The Gift of the Nile?
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    The Gift of the Nile?

    The contributions in this volume include studies on the cultural and environmental impact of the Nile on the people of Egypt, the authors using palaeoclimatic and geomorphological data to examine and challenge traditional approaches to the study of the Egyptian environment.

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  • Making Stone Vases

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  • A Journey through the Beyond
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    A Journey through the Beyond

    A Journey through the Beyond offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs: the Duat, or netherworld.

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  • Lending in Ptolemaic Egypt
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    Lending in Ptolemaic Egypt

    This book examines lending practices in Egypt during the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE), especially, but not exclusively, through the lens of the demotic loan-account papyri of Panas, son of Espmetis. It explores the contents of the papyri, placing them in their social, legal, and historical conte...

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  • Faience and Other Small Finds from the Edge of the Empire
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    Faience and Other Small Finds from the Edge of the Empire

    The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections is a scholarly publication integrating Egyptology with Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and African studies - providing a dedicated venue for this growing field of interdisciplinary and inter-area research.

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  • King Seneb
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    King Seneb

    Explore the tomb of pharaoh Seneb-Kay (ca. 1650-1600 BCE) at Abydos in this volume. Unveiling a king's tomb from Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, it offers insights into military elites, Seneb-Kay's battle-related death, and the wider historical context. The tomb also reveals earlier elite and...

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  • Ritual Landscape and Performance
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    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.

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  • Udjahorresnet and His World
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    Udjahorresnet and His World

    The 6th-century Egyptian politician Udjahorresnet held high political positions in the former Egyptian kingship realm. He became an important figure in transforming Egypt into a regional centre within the vast and culturally diverse empire of the Achaemenid Persians. This volume of essays explore...

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  • Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume 58
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    Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume 58

    The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems, and archaeology of the Egyptian people. It aims to foster a broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public. The journal welcomes article sub...

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  • Cult and Ritual in Persian Period Egypt
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    Cult and Ritual in Persian Period Egypt

    This book focuses on the decorative schemes of several chapels in the earlier part of the Temple of Hibis, one of the most important temples from Late Period Egypt. The chapels studied here were either established and/or decorated during the first Persian Period (525-404 BCE).

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  • Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol 56 (2020)
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    Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol 56 (2020)

    The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes article submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French, or G...

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  • Discovering New Pasts
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    Discovering New Pasts

    In celebration of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago’s centennial year, a personalized history of the OI's work past and present. Learn the story of the Institute's development—from being one man's dream to becoming one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on over ten thousand ...

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  • Mit Rahineh 1955

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  • Reflections of Women in the New Kingdom

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  • Hibis Temple Project Volume 2

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  • The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenrec
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    The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenrec

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  • Les transcriptions des papyrus hiératiques nos. 1116 A (Verso) et 1116 B (Verso) de l'Ermitage impérial à St-Pétersbourg

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  • Animals of Ancient Egypt
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    Animals of Ancient Egypt

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  • Poème heroïque sur la bataille de Qadech

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  • Genesis in Egypt
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    Genesis in Egypt

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  • A Preliminary Report on the Re-Excavations of the Palace of Amenhetep III
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    A Preliminary Report on the Re-Excavations of the Palace of Amenhetep III

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  • Die demotischen Inschriften der Strategen

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  • Hibis Temple Project I

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  • Studies in 'The Instructions of King Amenemhet I for his Son' (2-volume set)

    2 volumes

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  • Immortal Egypt
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    Immortal Egypt

    Essays on Egyptology by G.R. Hughes, D. Schmandt-Besserat, K. Butzer, W.K. Simpson, H.A. Liebowitz, T.A. Wertime, L. Mesnick Gallery and C. Aldred.

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  • Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues
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    Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues

    The first full-length study of the so-called prisoner statues, elaborately decorated mortuary monuments for their pharaohs constructed by the ancient Egyptians during the late Old Kingdom (ca. 2435-2153 BCE). The book provides a fuller understanding of not only the prisoner statues but also the E...

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  • English-Egyptian Index of Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian
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    English-Egyptian Index of Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

    This lexical index will provide a useful aid for locating Middle Egyptian textual material.  It will also act as an aid to the English-speaking student, by providing a large English/Egyptian vocabulary with which to work.

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  • Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
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    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 ...

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  • Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley
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    Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley

    It was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region, until a systematic survey of the valley, when numerous preceramic sites were found. This is the first overview of the Arc...

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  • Blood and Beauty
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    Blood and Beauty

    The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation ...

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  • Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas
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    Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas

    Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. This study focuses on five extraordinary Moche tombs that were archaeologically excavated at the site of Dos Cabezas and provide an unusual opportunity to understand aspects of Moche funerary practice t...

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  • Settlement Archaeology and Political Economy at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico
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    Settlement Archaeology and Political Economy at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico

    This volume presents new information from a program of intensive archaeological survey and surface collection at an important Olmec and Epi-Olmec centre.

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  • Chotuna and Chornancap
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    Chotuna and Chornancap

    Explores the legend of Naymlap, founder of a dynasty that ruled the Lambayeque Valley of Peru, said to have built his palace at a place that many believe to be the archaeological sites of Chotuna and Chornancap. Presents the results of excavations at those sites and demonstrates the extent to whi...

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  • Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-1
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    Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-1

    First in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of human settlement in the region, from the Early Archaic to the early Colonial Period. A critical resource for scholars working in the central...

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  • The Pacatnamu Papers, Volume 2
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    The Pacatnamu Papers, Volume 2

    This volume includes the results of a five-year excavation (1983-1987) at Pacatnamu, Peru, combining archaeological excavation with physical anthropology, botany, zoology, textile analysis, ethnography, and ethnohistory. Focuses on the period of Moche occupation. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

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  • Soccer and Racism
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    Soccer and Racism

    This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic. 

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