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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Before the pyramids
Catalogue for an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum presenting research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods: the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis and the Delta. Will be a stan...
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume s (-sa to suu-)
This volume of the Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is the complete volume of the letter S (-sa to suu-), including fascicles 1-4. The CHD is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary.
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 1, a, part 1
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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Daily life ornamented
Shows how archaeologists work with sherds at the same time that it portrays aspects of life along the Silk Road during the ninth - fourteenth centuries. Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, also represents an opportunity to re-examine the pioneering work of Erich Schmidt, who excavated t...
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Nippur neighborhoods
This study of two domestic neighbourhoods at Nippur, TA and TB, correlates information from texts found in these houses with architectural modifications to the buildings, and considers the socio-economic circumstances of the occupants.
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Megiddo 3
Excavations at Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim) attest to the site's cultural and historical significance and effectively chronicles the disciplinary development of archaeological research in the region. This is particularly true of Stratum VI, which represents the initial Iron Age (or Iron I) settle...
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The assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago
Chicago's Assyrian Dictionary is complete. The last of the twenty one volumes has just been published marking the completion of a project that has been going over fifty years. All volumes are available individually, but for those who have hesitated so far the complete dictionary is now available ...
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Kerkenes special studies 1
Remains of sculpture and fragments of an important inscription in the Old Phrygian language were found during excavations at the sixth century BC walled city on Kerkenes Mountain in Central Turkey. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs A Turkish summary is provided.
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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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Picturing the past
Fully illustrated catalogue of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the 2012 Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East . Presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, models, photographs, and reconstructions showing how t...
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An armenian futuh narrative
The ‘History’ of the Armenian priest Lewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of 2nd/8th-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This book is a new annotated English translation of Lewond's text, which describes events during the century an...
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Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration iii
This volume continues the edition of unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. As in previous volumes, the text fragments are presented in both photographs and transliterations, with notes explaining particular forms and text variants. The fragment...
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 3, d
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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Theban desert road survey in the egyptian western desert, volume 1
Includes 45 inscriptions each from Gebel Tjauti and from Wadi el-Hôl, two major concentrations of rock inscriptions and rock art on pharaonic caravan routes of the Egyptian Western Desert, from predynastic to Christian times. Photographs and facsimile drawings, with hieroglyphic transcriptions, t...
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Adventures of inanaka and tuni
Journey back in time 3,800 years to Nippur, a city in ancient Babylonia, as a girl sets out on a quest to become a scribe. Inanaka learns how to make a tablet and write her name, solves the many puzzles of the cuneiform writing system, and prepares with her family for a festival, all with the hel...
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The registry of the photographic archives of the epigraphic survey, with plates from key plans showing locations of theban temple decorations
The photographic registry of the Oriental Institute's Epigraphic Survey in Luxor provides scholars with a quick reference to the photographic documentation contained in the Survey's primary archival holdings. The Registry lists all negatives available for thousands of individual scenes in Theban ...
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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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Ausgrabungen von khor-dehmit bis bet el-wali
Records the expedition's 1961 finds from the cemeteries and settlements around Bab Kalabsha, including the architecture of the sacred complex of late Roman times on the heights above Bab Kalabsha, a small valley chapel at Taifa, Christian remains from settlements on the island of Darmus, and refu...
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The holmes expedition to luristan
This two-volume account of archaeological investigations in central and eastern Luristan reflects work carried out over 50 years in the remote area of western Iran, north of the Zagros Mountains. Included are excavation reports on the Chalcolithic site of Kamtarlan and on an Iron Age shrine on th...
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Proceedings of the 51st rencontre assyriologique internationale, held at the oriental institute of the university of chicago, july 18-22, 2005.
Selection of papers presented at the 51st meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale—International Congress of Assyriology & Near Eastern Archaeology.
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Aramaic ritual texts from persepolis
Long awaited edition of the Aramaic texts from Persepolis, unearthed during the expedition by the University of Chicago under Erich F. Schmidt between 1936 and 1938. He has assembled important data on the chronology of Persepolis during the first half of the fifth century B.C. from personal names...
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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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The oriental institute 2001-2002 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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Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, parts 2, 3, and 4
Presents Neolithic, A-Group, and Post-A-Group remains from Qustul, Ballana, and Adindan. Neolithic remains were only found in a cave behind the village of Adindan and consist of sherds, some implements, a human skull, and fragments of decorated ostrich eggshell. The cave is comparable to caves fo...
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Medinet habu, volume viii
Completes the documentation of the reliefs and inscriptions on the buildings at Medinet Habu constructed and decorated during the reign of Ramses III. Its Eastern High Gate is a structure unique among the extant ancient buildings of Egypt.
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The oriental institute 2000-2001 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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Nippur v
The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. A
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Studies in the archaeology of israel and neighboring lands in memory of douglas l. esse
In memory of Douglas L. Esse, an archaeologist and assistant professor at the Oriental Institute. The majority of the thirty-four chapters in this volume are concerned with the study of the Early Bronze Age.
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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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The hilly flanks and beyond
The eighteen papers in this volume, presented to Robert J Braidwood, reflect on Braidwood's lifelong obsession: the study of food production and the `origins of agriculture' in the Fertile Crescent between 10,000 and 4,000 BC. Contributors include O Bar Yosef, M-C Cauvin, A M T Moore, K Flannery,...
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The oriental institute 1999-2000 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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Changing social identity with the spread of islam
Looks at the spread of Islam throughout the medieval world and the process of conversion to this religion and adoption of its cultural life. The evidence is presented in a series of essay reports on archaeological approaches in current Islamic Archaeology.
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Mural decoration in the theban necropolis
This volume, the fourth in a series of occasional proceedings from the ongoing Theban Workshop, presents new research on wall decoration in the Theban necropolis. Its thirteen essays, by an international array of leading scholars, attest to the wide and varied scope of the theme.
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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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Slaves and households in the near east
Seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the March 2010 seminar 'Slaves and Households in the Near East'. Includes micro-historical examinations of slavery in contexts spanning almost four millennia.
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The origins of state organisations in prehistoric highland fars, southern iran
Tall-e Bakun A, near Persepolis in the Marv Dasht region of Fars, stands as one of the precursors to the complex societies of the fourth millennium BC early urban centres. This is the final report of the last season's excavations at that site.
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Where kingship descended from heaven
This volume presents a wide array of studies on the excavated material remains from Kish, located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River in modern Iraq approximately 80 kilometres south of Baghdad. It includes studies of cuneiform texts, animal figurines, human remains, lithics, figural stucco ...
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Town and country in southeastern anatolia, volume 1
This is a report on a detailed survey conducted within an area of 100 km2 along the south (left) bank of the River Euphrates (Firat Nehri) in southeastern Turkey. The survey provided a fourteen period sequence of settlement covering a span of 8,000 years.
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Archaeology of the bronze age, hellenistic, and roman remains at an ancient town on the euphrates river
This 2-vol set (text and plates) represents the final publication of the archaeological excavations conducted at Tell es-Sweyhat in the Tabqa Dam region of the upper Euphrates River in Syria under the direction of T. A. Holland during the field seasons of 1973-1975 and 1989-1991. Part 1: text 629...
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Irrigation in early states
The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging from South America and the southwestern United States to North Africa, the Middle East and Asia they describe the physical attributes and environments of early irrigation systems and irrigation's e...
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Uch tepe i
This volume is the first of three final reports on the joint expedition of the Oriental Institute and the University of Copenhagen in the Hamrin Salvage project of Iraq. The main focus is on the Early Dynastic I round fortress of Uch Tepe.
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Figurines and other clay objects from sarab and cayonue
Human and animal figurines and other clay objects from the Oriental Institute's continuing work on Neolithic sites in Turkey and Iran.
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Old babylonian public buildings in the diyala region. part one
The ninth published volume of twelve, presenting the whole work off the Oriental Institute's Iraq Expedition in the Diyala region. This volume focuses on Ishchali (usually identified as ancient Nêribtum), which belonged to the independent kingdom of Eshnunna. The bulk of the report is devoted to ...
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A cosmopolitan city
Examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. Explores the interactions of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities within urban city life. Communities practiced their own beliefs and enacted communal self-government, but intermingled on a ...
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Beads from excavations at qustul, adindan, serra east, dorginarti, ballana, and kalabsha
This book presents a comprehensive corpus of beads and pendants found during excavations undertaken by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago between 1960 and 1968 at the Lower Nubian sites of Qustul, Adindan, Serra East, Dorginarti, Ballana and Kalabsha and stored in the Oriental In...
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Scripts and scripture
How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume address different aspects of this question.
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The oriental institute 2007-2008 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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Margins of writing, origins of cultures
This symposium was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and historians to connect theories of writing, language, and identity with the latest results of ancient Near Eastern scholarship.
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