Collection: ISAC
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture (ISAC), formerly the Oriental Institute, at the University of Chicago publishes both scientific and popular reports on its research and activities in the Middle East. Ancient language dictionaries (specifically, multi-volume dictionaries of the Hittite and Assyrian languages), text editions, archaeological reports and related Middle Eastern studies are well represented in the more than 700 works published since the early twentieth century, and many more are in preparation.
ISAC was founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted with the financial support of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Its goal is to be the world’s leading centre for the study of the ancient civilizations of West Asia and North Africa by combining innovation in theory, methodology, and significant empirical discovery with the highest standards of rigorous scholarship.
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Nomads, tribes and the state in the ancient near east
The seminar (March 7-8, 2008) brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the past. Includes prehistoric Iran, ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, seventh-century Arabia, and nin...
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Visible language
Current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. This richly illustrated volume, issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute, provides a perspective on, and appreciation of, an i...
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A kid's bestiary of ancient nubia
The bestiary features a wide range of animals including lions, crocodiles, ibex, ibises, cattle, insects, monkeys and giraffes. It covers the region of Nubia along the Nile in modern-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the Institute for the Study ...
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Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration v
This volume continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. Fragments from two hundred tablets are presented in photographs, transliterations, and succinct philological notes.
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A bestiary of ancient nubia
Published in conjunction with a special exhibition of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago, this sumptuously illustrated volume examines the many roles animals played in Nubian life, art, religion and economy from prehistory through the medieval period. It ...
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Ancient iran in the isac museum
A richly illustrated survey of ancient Iranian art and archaeology, showcasing artifacts from the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery. Spanning prehistoric settlements to Persepolis, it highlights the material culture, artistic achievement and historical depth of one of the ancient world’s most influen...
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Hattannas
The essays offered here reflect the research interests of Theo van den Hout, Professor Emeritus of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. They include text editions, studies on religion and writing, and investigations into dive...
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A connecting polemic in the medieval mediterranean
This book offers the first comprehensive edition and translation of all surviving versions—Latin, Armenian, Arabic, and Aljamiado—of the polemical correspondence attributed to the Byzantine emperor Leo III and the Umayyad caliph 'Umar II, providing insights into the construction and transmission ...
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Medinet habu x
This volume continues the Epigraphic Survey's publication of the Eighteenth Dynasty Temple of Amun at Medinet Habu, near the Theban Hills on the Nile’s West Bank. The photographs and detailed facsimile drawings in this volume present the reliefs and inscriptions on the temple's façade and the per...
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Megiddo ivories coloring book
This colouring book invites children and adults alike to engage with history: uncover the art of the ancient world through 25 hand-drawn illustrations based on carved ivories from Megiddo, a powerful city in the Late Bronze Age.
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume p, fascicles 1-3
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 4, e
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...
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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...
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Excavations in the plain of antioch volume iii
Final report of the four archaeological campaigns carried out at the site of Chatal Hoyuk in the Amuq (currently Hatay, Turkey). Includes many previously unpublished materials. The material culture here traces changes and continuity in the site's domestic activities, and shifts in cultural contac...
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 19, t [tet}
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...
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Pioneers to the past
Catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history at...
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Bir umm fawakhir, volume 2
Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century AD Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. This is the final report on the 1996 and 1997 excavation seasons, completing the detailed map of the main settlement, continuing the investigation of the outlying clusters of rui...
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Earliest land tenure systems in the near east
This two volume set offers the first complete edition of the ancient 'kudurrus' (Uruk III-Sargonic land grant contracts) combined with detailed discussion of the social and legal aspects of the documents. All 57 'kudurrus' are presented as photographs with transliterations, translations and full ...
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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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The oriental institute 2003-2004 annual report
The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.
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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.
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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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Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 8
This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern end of Egyptian Nubia.
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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...
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Ayla
Featured are thirty-seven illustrations that highlight the magnificence that was the great Islamic port of Ayla on the Gulf of Aqaba. The site is located in modern Aqaba, Jordan and has been excavated by the Oriental Institute under the directorship of Donald Whitcomb since 1986.
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Catastrophe! the looting and destruction of iraq's past
Describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the lo...
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Beyond the ubaid
Contains 23 papers that explore what the "Ubaid" is, how it is identified, and how the Ubaid in one location compares to another in a distant location. The papers are the result of "The Ubaid Expansion? Cultural Meaning, Identity and the Lead-up to Urbanism," an International Workshop held at Gre...
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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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Christians and others in the umayyad state
The goal of the conference was to address a simple question: Just what role did non-Muslims play in the operations of the Umayyad state? The eight papers in this volume thus focus on that question.
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Seals on the persepolis fortification tablets, volume i
On the legible seals retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative tablets recovered during the 1930s excavations at Persepolis, Iran. Commentary on features of the seals as well as systematic analysis of seal application patterns. P...
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Perspectives on ptolemaic thebes
The manuscript consists of seven papers presented at the Theban Workshop, 2006. Ranging from models of culture-history, to studies of specific administrative offices, a single statue type, inscriptions in a single temple, and inscriptions of a single king.
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 10, m, parts 1 and 2
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...
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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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On the margin of the euphrates
Examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Emphasis is upon the retrieval of information from surface surveys, and at the same time, the integration of cultural change within both the local environmental context and long-ter...
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Sargonic texts in the ashmolean museum, oxford
Transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. The majority of the tablets are standard administrative texts, with a small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. 113 tablets are pres...
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Nippur ii
A report on the excavation during the 1950s of an Early Dynastic Temple discovered in the northwestern part of the Religious Quarter of Nippur. The volume includes reports on the structural remains, the burials and the finds, such as pottery, tablets, seals, ornaments and figurines.
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Structures of power
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 gender relations in the ancient world, with a focus on the ancient Near East.
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Excavations at the palatial complex
This volume documents the results of the excavations of the Palatial Complex at the city on the Kerkenes Dağ in the high plateau of central Turkey. It was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria, founded in the later seventh century BC, put to the torch in the mid-sixth century and then aban...
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The temple of khonsu. volume 1
The present stately folio with its accompanying text (translating all the texts in the plates) is the first-fruits of 45 years of intermittent work by the redoubtable Chicago team, alongside their work at Medinet Habu and elsewhere in Karnak.[From a review by K. A. Kitchen in Bibliotheca Oriental...
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Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration iv (bo 2689-bo 5660)
This continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. They are presented in photographs and transliterations, with philological notes explaining particular forms and text variants. Most fragments dealt with here are from ritu...
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Insights into islamic archaeology and material culture
This book's fourteen contributors emphasise the need to move beyond orientalist interpretations and historiographic dependencies of Islamic archaeology. Instead they foster a more neutral and analytical approach to early Islamic material culture.
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 21, z
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...
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Essays in ancient civilization presented to helene j. kantor
The twenty-five contributors to this volume are but a fraction of those indebted to Professor Kantor; but between them they pay appropriate tribute in a handsomely produced book, which includes a bibliography of the publications and communications of Helene J. Kantor.
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The oriental institute 2006-2007 annual report
The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.
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Between heaven and earth
Companion to an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. An index of bird species makes this volume useful for naturalists as well as for Egyptologists and art historians.
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Tell hamoukar, volume 1. urbanism and cultural landscapes in northeastern syria
Tell Hamoukar is one of the largest Bronze Age sites in northern Mesopotamia. Presents the results of three seasons of field survey and remote-sensing analysis at the site and region. This area is one of the best-preserved ancient landscapes of movement in the world. Appendices describe the 60 si...
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