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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100 highlights of the collections of the oriental institute museum
This special edition of Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum commemorates the 2019 centennial of the Oriental Institute and presents 100 highlights from ancient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia in the collections.
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A master of secrets in the chamber of darkness
Robert Kriech Ritner revolutionized our views of ancient Egyptian religion and helped launch a renaissance in the study of magic in the ancient world. This volume presents twenty-seven essays in his honour, covering the latest groundbreaking research in Egyptology and beyond.
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Pesher nahum
Contains 25 articles (20 in English, 5 in Hebrew) that span a broad array of topics within the fields of Hebraica, Judaica, and Biblica. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of the honoree's works as well as discrete indexes of manuscripts, biblical references, classical and medieval wor...
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Excavations at nippur
Second of the preliminary reports on work at Nippur, this volume gives details of the remains of a series of temples in Area WA and the administrative and residential buildings in Area WB. Includes important treatments of the pottery of the Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, as well as hoards of...
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 2, b
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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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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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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Ancient settlement systems and cultures in the ram hormuz plain, southwestern iran
After World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. McCown chose the Ram Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region south and east of the provincial town of Ahvaz down to the Persian Gulf. He recorded 118 sites in the areas and eventually chose for excavation...
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Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world
The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian,...
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Reliefs and inscriptions at luxor temple, volume 1
Field work of the Epigraphic Survey on the walls of the temples and tombs of Luxor, recording the inscriptions and reliefs in facsimile for posterity.The portfolio of large drawings is accompanied by a text booklet, which has a list of plates, transliterations and translations of the texts, comme...
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Heaven on earth
The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical...
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Nimrud
Muzahim Hussein's 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for archaeology. Although much is known of the Assyrian kings (8th/9th century B.C.), very little was known about the queens, with the exception of semi-my...
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Subsistence, trade, and social change in early bronze age palestine
Study of the site and the surrounds of one of the earliest and largest Early Bronze Age cities of the Levant - Beth Yerah, in the Jordan Valley of Israel on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Includes archaeological, geological, and phytogeographical evidence, as well as more recent records from t...
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 5, g
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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Prehistoric archaeology along the zagros flanks
Braidwood set out in 1948 to explore the field evidence for the transition from hunter-gatherer way of life to sedentary food production in the region surrounding the Mesopotamian Plain. This volume is the final report on the Braidwoods' initial phase of exploration from 1948 to 1955 in the Chemc...
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The damascus psalm fragment
The Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It presents a scenario for the emergence of standard Classical Arabic as the literary language of the late eighth century and beyond.
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Archive of thotsutmis, son of panouphis
The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. They were excavated at the site of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city o...
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The oriental institute hawara papyri
The papyri published here form part of a large family archive in the Egyptian Fayum. Written in Demotic and Greek, they are an excellent source of information about the Egypt of the fourth to third century b.c. Of interest to Egyptologists, Hellenists, and all those interested in the economic and...
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Mesopotamian pottery
The results of the long-term co-operation of archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to establish the ceramic chronology for Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.
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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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Materials and studies for kassite history volume 1
Kassite kings (1595-1155 b.c.) reigned longer than any other dynasty in Babylonian history. From their time, more than twelve thousand cuneiform documents have survived. This volume catalogues all dated texts of the dynasty, including extensive unpublished materials in museums in Asia, Europe, an...
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The oriental institute 2009-2010 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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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume s, fasc 4
This is the fourth and final fascicle of the letter S (-sma/i- A. to suu). The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary, reflecting and illustrating the ideas and material world of Hittite society, and is th...
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume l-n, fascicle 4
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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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 16, s
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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A critical study of the temple scroll from qumran cave 11
A study of one of the Qumran texts, examining its characteristics and authorship. The author concludes that the Temple Scroll was an eschatalogical law book, composed around 150 BC by `The Teacher of Righteousness' and not a product of the Qumran community.
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Ankara arkeoloji muezesinde bulunan bogazkoy tabletleri ii
This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project.
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 20, u and w
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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The temple of khonsu, volume 3
Graffiti on the roof of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak, in hieroglyphic, hieratic, and Demotic scripts, caught the eye of those who clambered up onto that part of the roof still remaining. The 334 graffiti recorded are illustrated by photographs and facsimile drawings. Incl. transliterations, tra...
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 14, r
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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Pioneer to the past
James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist and archaeologist, founded the Oriental Institute in 1919. The Institute embodies Breasted's vision of an inter-disciplinary research centre uniting archaeology, textual studies and art history. Reprint with new foreword and photographs, now available i...
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume s fascicle 2
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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Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 9
The excavations at these cemeteries provide a full range of X-Group objects, dated to the fourth through sixth centuries a.d. Of special interest is the military equipment, including many decorated quivers, parts of several unusual light composite bows, and a saddle date to the late fourth century.
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume p, fascicle 2 (para- to pattar)
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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The assyrian dictionary, volume 13, q
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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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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From the workshop of the chicago assyrian dictionary
Robert D Biggs retired from the University of Chicago as Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2004. To acknowledge and honour his extraordinary service as collaborator, associate editor, and editorial board member, contributions from some of hi...
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The oriental institute 2004-2005 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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Chicago on the nile
This book relates the colourful story of the University of Chicago's Epigraphic Survey expedition to Egypt, from its conception in 1924 by the first American Egyptologist, James Henry Breasted, through its development over the course of a century to become a major scientific and social presence i...
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European cartographers and the ottoman world, 1500-1750
Lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750 , explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travellers and voyager...
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Seen not heard
Contributors from the fields of Egyptology, Sinology, Hittitology, and Assyriology, together with Mesoamericanists, art historians and a sign language specialist, interrogate writing as a medium that is not simply a handmaiden to oral and aural exchange but a communication system that is richly l...
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Iconoclasm and text destruction in the ancient near east and beyond
The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons for mutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity. Explores iconoclasm and text destruction through examination of the anthropological, cultural, historical, and p...
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The oriental institute 2002-2003 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 mosaics of khirbet el-mafjar
Originating from buildings in the oasis of Jericho and dating from the first half of the eighth century, during the time of Umayyad caliphate of the early Islamic period. In 2010 the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage uncovered, cleaned, and photographed these early Islamic mosaics.
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume l-n, fascicle 2 (-ma to miyahuwant-)
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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Bir umm fawakhir 3
Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-mining operation, and one of very few completely mapped...
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Studies in semitic and afroasiatic linguistics presented to gene b gragg
Professor Gene B Gragg's intellectual curiosity and rigorous linguistic method served as a bridge between the often disparate fields of Semitic philology and linguistics, between the various sub-disciplines that study the ancient Near East, and more. Essays presented at a symposium at the Orienta...
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Prehistoric investigations in iraqi kurdistan
Deals with the aims, methods, preliminary results and problems of three campaigns in Iraqi Kurdistan (1948, 1950-51, 1954-55), containing a valuable series of essays about special aspects of the project which was undertaken as a first major attempt to identify the earliest village-materials and t...
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