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Early mesopotamian royal titles
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Palamedes volumes 14
Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History is published on behalf of the University of Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.
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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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Sargonic texts from telloh in the istanb
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Dated texts from mari
This work offers its users a convenient form by which to locate dated texts from the Old Babylonian Period which have been published in the Archives Royales de Mari I-XVIII as well as in various periodicals. It includes other texts dated to the same period which were parts of the Chagar Bazar, Te...
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The conceptual autonomy of the babylonian world [1926]
A translation with introduction of the famous programmatic article by Benno Landsberger, "Die Eigenbegrifflichkeit der Babylonischen Welt", a manifesto which "insisted on the necessity of studying Mesopotamian culture for its own sake, in its own terms, and within its own system of values".
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E mache tou marathona
Historian Christos Dionysopoulos goes head-to-head with 669 authors and 913 articles and books, emerging triumphant with a detailed study casting new light on this historic battle fought in 490BC. 112 colour illustrations. Greek language text.
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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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Palamedes volume 11
Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet ...
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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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Assyrians in chaldean and achaemanian babylonia
The evidence for Assyrians in Babylonia during the Chaldean and Achaemenian periods is presented in this book. The evidence consists mainly of onomastic material which the book thoroughly analyses.
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Aramaic incantation texts from nippur
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A leo oppenheim, 1904-1974; assur notes on some nineveh horse lists
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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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A bibliography of the tablet collections of the university museum
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Documents d'epoque medio-assyrienne
An edition of twelve previously unpublished Middle Assyrian texts: eleven from the Louvre and one in a private collection, containing a letter, juridical texts of the genre of KAJ and some administrative documents.
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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
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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Recycling for death
“An absolute gem for specialists and students alike, abundantly illustrated in full color throughout, by an excellent scholar at the height of her powers."—David Aston, The Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaA meticulous study of the social, economic, and religious significance of coffin reuse a...
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Death and burial in ancient egypt
A Book Riot 100 Must-Read Book on Ancient HistoryDeath, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of death in ancient Egypt, including beliefs of the afterlife, mummification, the protection of the body,...
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Bir umm fawakhir survey project 1993
The Oriental Institute continued its survey of Bir Umm Fawakhir, a site lying half way between the Nile and the Red Sea in1993.This report reflects on the aims of the 1993 season which was to continue mapping the site, to expand the pottery corpus, to seek for some specific features not found in ...
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Scarabs, scaraboids, seals and seal impressions from medinet habu
Medinet Habu in western Thebes (modern Luxor, Egypt) is dominated by the great mortuary temples of King Ramesses III, and Kings Aye and Horemheb. Catalogue of 349 objects from approx. 1470 BC to the eighth century AD. Each is described and illustrated. These scarabs and scaraboids are one of the ...
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Medinet habu ix
The Epigraphic Survey returns to its series of publications dedicated to the reliefs and inscriptions of the Medinet Habu complex, with a sequence documenting the Eighteenth Dynasty temple of Amun and subsequent additions, beginning with this publication of the reliefs in the six innermost rooms ...
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Baked clay figurines and votive beds from medinet habu
This catalog presents the entire corpus of 272 baked clay figurines and votive beds excavated at Medinet Habu by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago during their 1926-1933 campaign. Each object is fully described and illustrated and is accompanied by commentary on construction, sy...
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Ptolemais
Presents detailed excavation reports on a villa of the early Roman period, a public building on the Street of the Monuments and the City Bath of the Byzantine period and also attempts a survey of Ptolemais of the Libyan Pentapolisas a whole.
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Ancient egypt
Fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of t...
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The egyptian coffin texts
With the appearance of this volume, the Oriental Institute marks the true completion of the Egyptian Coffin Texts Project , an international cooperative program begun by James Henry Breasted and Alan H. Gardiner in 1922 and edited by Adriaan de Buck from 1935 until his death in 1959.
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A commemoration ritual for senwosret i
The document better known as the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, was found in a late Middle Kingdom tomb in the Ramesseum necropolis, together with other manuscripts and artifacts, all primarily magico-medical in function. Discusses the occupation of the tomb owner based on an analysis of this except...
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The great hypostyle hall in the temple of amun at karnak
This 2-volume set contains full translation, epigraphic analysis, and photographic documentation of the wall reliefs inside the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Karnak Temple. This vast trove of ritual art and texts attest to the richness and vitality of Egyptian civilization at the height of its impe...
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Prehistoric survey of egypt and western asia
Study of one of the most perplexing problems of Nile Valley structure; tracing the geologic history of the region back beyond the origin of the Faiyum depression itself. The Nile Valley as a whole has been investigated as a background for this detailed study.
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The demotic and hieratic papyri in the suzuki collection of tokai university, japan
This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time; Representing a range of document types and of demotic handwriting. Includes a a rare word list and a new mythological narrative, one late hieratic text concerned with temple land, and some Greek fragments f...
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Creativity and innovation in the reign of hatshepsut
This proceedings of the Theban Symposium in May 2010, in Granada, Spain, at the Institute for Arabic Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), on the general theme of 'Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut.' Contains nineteen papers that present new perspectives on t...
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Book of the dead
The latest research on the Book of the Dead, written by thirteen internationally renown experts, with a complete catalogue of the 45 objects on display in an exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum. Two famous Book of the Dead papyri, Papyrus Milbank and Papyrus Ryerson, are reproduced in ful...
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Naga ed-deir in the first intermediate period
The ancient cemeteries at Naga ed-Dêr date from the Predynastic period to the Middle Kingdom. They run for about six kms from Sheikh Farag to Mesheikh and form parts of the single large cemetery of the Thinite nome UE 8.
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Karanis, an egyptian town in roman times
Karanis in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250BC housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture. It eventually proved to be an extraordinarily rich archaeological site, yielding tens of thousands of artefacts and papyri that provide a wealth of information...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 5 (2013)
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies aims to bring together individuals interested in Coptic Studies by promoting meetings and conferences as wel...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 8 (2016)
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and throug...
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 55 (2019)
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 submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or German.
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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 10
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is an organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of sc...
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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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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 51 (2015)
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 Ge...
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Sacred space and sacred function in ancient thebes
Series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. The region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography combine with textual sources and archaeological finds.
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Mendes i
Mendes I brings together all known maps of the site and its environs: early examples based on the descriptions of Herodotus and Pliny the Geographer, maps of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers, and maps produced expressly for this publication on the basis of the authors' excavations and...
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 50 (2014)
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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Image and voice in saite egypt
Wilkinson Egyptology Series, vol. II. Includes 25 figures and 34 colour plates this is a scholarly work that explores the self-presentation of some elite members of late Saite (26th Dynasty) Egypt.
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Glass from quseir al-qadim and the indian ocean trade
The final report on the first and second century a.d. and thirteenth and fourteenth century Islamic glass excavated at Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Describes the glass finds and their distribution from the Red Sea to Arabia, East Africa, and India and raises questions about glas...
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For his ka
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 reflect Professor Baer's contributions to a variety of fields.
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A late period hieratic wisdom text (p. brooklyn 47.218.135)
This volume contains an edition of P. Brooklyn 47.218.135, a papyrus dated to the fifth or fourth century b.c. in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Contains a hieroglyphic transcription, consecutive translation, philological commentary, glossary, bibliography, plates.
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Studies in honor of george r. hughes
Essays presented to George R. Hughes, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, on his 70th birthday. The articles deal with the art, history, language, literature, and religion of ancient Egypt, concentrating especially on the later periods of Egyptian civilization, which were ...
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Life, death and afterlife in ancient egypt
The elaborately decorated coffin of Djehutymose is one of the central artifacts of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's Egyptian collection. Using the images and texts from the coffin along with related artifacts, Egyptologist T. G. Wilfong explores what the coffin tells us about ancient Egyptian i...
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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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The demotic graffiti from the temple of isis on philae island
This volume publishes 534 new Demotic graffiti recorded at the temple of Isis on Philae Island, presented with drawings and photographs. An essay interprets the role of the graffiti in understanding the political and religious activities at Philae during the last centuries of worship of the godde...
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Studies in honor of john a. wilson
This book is made up of twelve articles, contributed in honour of the seventieth birthday of John A. Wilson by his students and colleagues of the Oriental Institute.
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Joyful in thebes
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparat...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 7 (2015)
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and throug...
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 52 (2016)
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 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. JARCE publishes articles in Engl...
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Ex terra scientia
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections Volume 10 (2016) present papers by his colleagues in tribute to the career of David Soren, Regents Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona and Director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria, Italy.
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Journal of the american research center in egypt
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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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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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volume 2
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies aims to bring together individuals interested in Coptic Studies by promoting meetings and conferences as wel...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volumes 3-4
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies aims to bring together individuals interested in Coptic Studies by promoting meetings and conferences as wel...
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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)
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)
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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Altagyptische amulette und ihre handhabung
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Agyptische rituale der griechisch-romischen zeit
English summary: Evidence of rituals has a prominent place among the legacies of the Egyptian culture. This evidence can be immortalized monumentally on the walls of temples and tombs, or it can appear on papyri and ostraca as an indication of its actual use. There is an abundance of preserved Eg...
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The joseph story between egypt and israel
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Eschatologie im agyptischen monchtum
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Illuminating osiris
Collected essays in honour of Mark J. Smith, Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford, focussing on his research interests including Egyptian religion, language and texts, incl. demotic. Exceptional list of international contributors, majority European. 25 colour, c.100 b&w illustratio...
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Bec 4
The Fourth British Egyptology Congress (BEC 4) in September 2018 at the University of Manchester featured 82 papers, including four keynotes, spanning Egyptology, archaeology, museology, and Nile travel history. This volume includes 13 representative papers, aiming to stimulate further scholarly ...
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Essays for the library of seshat
Collection of Essays on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Professor Janet H. Johnson. 28 essays ranging from Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity.
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Catalog of demotic texts in the brooklyn museum
This catalogue is intended to be only a checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian texts. The catalogue provides both the Museum and Demoticists generally with a list of all the pieces plus only such information as would make the list useful. Includes with key word, nam...
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Snake identification in the ancient egyptian brooklyn medical papyrus
This book is about snakebite and snake identification in ancient Egypt. The authors--in a remarkable collaboration between the fields of Egyptology, medicine, herpetology, biology and ecology--offer a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, the firs...
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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
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 sunshade chapel of meritaten from the house-of-waenre of akhenaten
Examnines the historically significant quartzite block E16230 from Akhenaten's reign, shedding light on royal women's role. Originating from Akhenaten's palace, it was later reused in Heliopolis and Cairo. The study offers a significant contribution to the study of this debated era in Egyptian hi...
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Mountains of the pharaohs
World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass weaves a spellbinding narrative about how the pyramids were built and why, new in paperbackNearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization. Believed to be gods, the royal family lived a...
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The nubian pharaohs of egypt
The region of Nubia—now spanning the modern border between Egypt and Sudan—was long a subject of Egyptian imperial domination by its ancient pharaohs. However, in the eighth century BC matters were suddenly reversed, when the kings of Kush, the ancient name for Nubia, became the overlords of...
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Ramesses, loved by ptah
The dramatic story behind the 3,200-year-old colossal Grand Egyptian Museum Ramesses statueKing Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an extraordinary sixty-six years (1279–1213 BC) during the Nineteenth Dynasty. A great warrior and lavish builder, he fathered dozens of children and is widely regarded as t...
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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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His good name
This book focuses on the topic of identity and self-presentation in ancient Egyptian society, approaching this through studies of gender, literature, material culture, mythology, names and officialdom.
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Divine creatures
The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive offerings. For the first time, a series of s...
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The pyramid complex of amenemhat i at lisht
This new book in the series “Egyptian Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art” focuses on the architecture of the pyramid complex of King Amenemhat I at Lisht, 20 miles south of Cairo, which was built on a foundation using Old Kingdom blocks.
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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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Ramesses ii, egypt's ultimate pharaoh
Peter Brand reveals Ramesses the Great as a gifted politician, canny elder statesman, and tenacious warrior; a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age.
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Rameses iii, king of egypt
Master story-teller and renowned Egyptologist, Aiden Dodson, reveals the secrets of Rameses III, in this fully-illustrated, accessible history, the first to exclusively cover this last great pharaoh, by the author of the bestselling, Sethy IRameses III—often dubbed the “last great pharaoh”—lived ...
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A teaching grammar of middle egyptian
This volume serves as a thorough and authoritative introduction to the "classical" phase of the ancient Egyptian language and its writing systems, known by convention as Middle Egyptian. It includes sixteen chapters with practice exercises, which offer detailed discussions of the conventional h...
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