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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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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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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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume l-n, fascicle 3 (miyahuwant- to nai-)
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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Inscriptions from tell abu salabikh
Includes all the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965 with the exception of a very few illegible fragments. All other tablets are represented by a copy, by a photograph, or by both. Except for the copies of especially fragile tablets made in the field, preliminary cop...
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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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Religion and power
The purpose of the conference was to examine more closely concepts of kingship in various regions of the world and in different time periods. The study of kingship goes back to the roots of fields such as anthropology and religious studies, as well as Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology.
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A day in the life of a 19th century photographer
This children's activity book tells the story of a 19th century photographer assigned to archaeological missions.
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Pomp, circumstance, and the performance of politics
Bringing together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines and time periods, from prehispanic Mesoamerica and Early Historic India to the Assyrian Empire and papal Rome, this book takes a bottom-up approach to evaluating the risks and rewards of acting "politically correctly" or incorrec...
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Language and nature
This book includes thirty contributions - twenty-nine papers and one artistic contribution - by John's colleagues, former students, and friends, on a variety of topics that represent John's versatility and many interests, including philology, history, natural history, and art.
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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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Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 5
Although C-Group sites in the area had been thought to be poor or plundered, Cemeteries T, K, and U yielded large amounts of undisturbed material that provided a valuable opportunity to check the chronology of C-Group by plotting the occurrence of various objects and practices in the cemetery.
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 8, k
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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Nippur iii
First of the final reports related to the current program of research at Nippur, crucial for understanding the Kassite assemblage at Nippur, especially for ceramics. Cuneiform texts allow some suggestions on the occupants of the sequence of houses and their activities. The plates include photogra...
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Nippur iv
Inscriptions on the remains of 128 inscribed clay tablets found at Nippur in south central Iraq turned out to be written in a previously unknown early Neo-Babylonian script dating back to the middle of the eighth century b.c. Includes copies, transliterations, and translations of all the document...
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 9, l
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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Sargonic texts in the louvre museum
This volume presents transliterations of all the unpublished Sargonic material in the Louvre Museum except that from Lagash and Susa. Included in this volume are indices of proper names and a catalogue of texts. Fifty-eight tablets are presented in photographic reproductions.
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Tell abada
This volume documents excavations in the Hamrin Basin area in the east-central part of Iraq. The two sites covered in these excavations are Tell Abada and Tell Rashid, dating back to the Ubaid period in the fifth millennium BC.
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Barda balka
The Paleolithic site of Barda Balka ("standing stone," "stone to lean upon" in local Kurdish) is situated about 3 kilometers northeast of Chemchemal in Kirkuk Province, Iraq. This volume is Howe's final report of the 1951 investigations at Barda Balka.
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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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Quseir al-qadim 1978
The results of the first season of archaeological excavations at the small port site of Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea are presented in this volume. This report presents copious illustrations of the artifacts of daily life in these two periods.
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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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The temple of khonsu
This volume completes the record of the forecourt and main hypostyle hall of the temple of Khons in Karnak, by the Chicago Epigraphic Survey. Includes full glossary (in transliteration) of all texts in Vols. 1 and 2 of Khonsu.
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A neolithic village at tell el kowm in the syrian desert
This monograph presents plaster, stone, ceramic, flint and bone remains from one of the largest pre-classical Tells in Syria. An appendix details the Neolithic plant remains.
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Excavations at nippur
The first results of a program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to work on a historical site in Mesopotamia, focuses on the entire city, not just the sacred aspects.
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 17, s, part 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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Chogha mish, volume 2
The final report on 11 seasons of excavations at Chogha Mish. In addition to the materials and records from Chogha Mish, uses the data available from the neighboring sites of Chogha Bonut and Boneh Fazl Ali to augment his reconstruction of Susiana prehistoric development. Together, these three si...
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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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The assyrian dictionary, volume 11, n, 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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The mechanics of ancient egyptian magical practice
The first critical examination of magical techniques and the practice of the magician in Ancient Egypt , revealing their widespread appearance and pivotal significance for all Egyptian 'religious' practices from the earliest periods through the Coptic era, influencing as well the Greco-Egyptian m...
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Embroidering identities
Companion piece to the exhibit held at the Oriental Institute from November 11, 2006 to March 25, 2007. It is an overview of the colourful and distinctive clothing of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Palestine. The volume includes a glossary of Arabic terms and a checklist to the exhibit.
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume l-n, fascicle 1 (la- to ma-)
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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Grammatical case in the languages of the middle east and beyond
Contains 28 studies of various aspects of the case systems of Sumerian, Hurrian, Elamite, Eblaite, Ugaritic, Old Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Indo-European, the languages of the Bisitun inscription, Hittite, Armenian, Sabellic, Gothic, Latin, Icelandic, Slavic, Russian, Ouralien, Tokharian and Etrus...
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Early megiddo on the east slope (the 'megiddo stages')
This report completes publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell e...
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The capture of jerusalem by the persians in 614 ce by strategius of mar saba
Among those taken captive after the capture of Jerusalem in 614 CE by the Persian armies was Strategius, a monk who composed a homily recounting the events leading up to the siege of the Holy City and its aftermath. This volume provides, for the first time, a complete side-by-side English transla...
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 18, t
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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Neo-babylonian texts in the oriental institute collection
The 173 texts contained in this volume are dated from 699 to 423 BC, during the Neo-Babylonian period. Contains transliterations, translations, text notes, commentary, indices, and a mixture of hand-drawn copies and photographs of the tablets.
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 6, h
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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Perspectives on hittite civilization
The articles in this collection were chosen from the bibliographical items authored by Hans Gustav Gueterbock over a span of more than sixty years. They give a rich and varied picture of ancient Hittite culture by one who literally grew up with the new discipline and experienced firsthand its mos...
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Performing death
The main aim of the two-day seminar in 2006 was to interpret the social relevance resulting from the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching Mediterranean basin from prehistoric periods to the Roman Age. Includes case-studies linked to both textual and archaeological evidence from...
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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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Household studies in complex societies
Scholars specialising in the Old and New World from Europe and the US came together to find new approaches in the study of households in complex societies. Presents case studies from the Near East, Egypt and Nubia, the Classical World, and Mesoamerica, including three comparative responses from t...
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Lost nubia
Catalogue for the inaugural exhibit in the Marshall and Doris Holleb Family Special Exhibits Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum. 52 photographic images document some of the archaeological sites in Nubia that have disappeared under the waters of Lake Nasser and a few places that are so remot...
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Bismaya
This monograph presents this large and significant corpus of unpublished material and includes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions of chronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practices during t...
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Ancient israel
On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to permanent public display.
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The oriental institute 2011-2012 annual report
Reports on the work of the Oriental Institute during the academic year (July 2011-June 2012), including twenty project, seven research support, eleven museum, seven public education and volunteer, and five development and membership reports.
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Reliefs and inscriptions at luxor temple, volume 2
The second volume of the Epigraphic Survey's series on Luxor Temple is devoted to the in situ reliefs and inscriptions of Tutankhamun's Colonnade Hall that were not documented in the first of the series, The Festival Procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall (OIP 112).
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The american expedition to idalion, cyprus 1973-1980
Report on excavations at the urban site of Idalion and the Neolithic site of Shali-Agridhi in Cyprus. Stratigraphic analyses of both sites as well as multidisciplinary studies of mining and metallurgy, fauna, human remains, pottery, coins and sculpture.
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The amuq valley regional projects, volume 1
The results of the Amuq Valley Regional Projects (AVRP) presented in this volume are the outcome of eight seasons of intensive fieldwork (1995-2002) representing the first phase of a long-range, broadly-based archaeological investigation in the Hatay region of southern Turkey.
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