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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From sherds to landscapes
This volume presents new research on the Ancient Near East in areas such as landscape archaeology, urbanism, the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, history of Mesopotamia, the archaeology of Iran and Yemen, prehistory, material culture and wider archaeological topics.
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Highlights of the collections of the oriental institute
This guide to highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and objects from the Islamic collection. New photography, provenance information, and a brief description of each object, as we...
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Excavations at serra east, parts 1-5
In 1961/62 and 1963/64, the Oriental Nubian Expedition excavated cemeteries, the ancient fortress, and the late Christian town of Serra East in northern Sudan. This volume looks at the ancient burials and outlying structures.
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In remembrance of me
This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalogue looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument (stele) of an official named Katumuwa (ca. 735 BC), discovered in 2008 by University of Chicago arch...
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 1, a, 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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The comparative archaeology of early mesopotamia
Although this book is now somewhat out-of-date, it remains a useful synthesis of archaeological material, correlating the evidence from one site with that from another, and the cultures of the North with those of the South. Some evidence of its enduring value can be found in the fact that this is...
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Letters from turkey, 1939-1946
When Georgianna Maynard went to Turkey in 1939 with her husband, Dick Maynard, she expected romance but found reality. The expected five year stay was extended to seven with the outbreak of World War II. The day-to-day struggle to cope with life as a young, married couple trapped in a foreign cou...
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Uch tepe ii
Second of three final reports on the joint expedition of the Oriental Institute and the Carsten Niebuhr Institute in the Hamrin Salvage project of Iraq. The technical reports consist of neutron activation and chemical studies on pottery and mudbrick, and a discussion of the function of the Round ...
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The late third millennium in the ancient near east
Three major topics are covered: The radiocarbon evidence for the mid to late third millennium BC Near East, the chronological implications of new dates and how historical/archaeological chronologies should/could be adapted, and - based on this evidence - if and how climate change can be related t...
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Assyrian dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume 7, i/j
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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Outward appearance versus inward significance
This volume takes a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to dress studies in the ancient world. Spanning a wide geographic spectrum, from the Near East and North Africa to the Mediterranean world and the Americas, it explores the cultural, social, and political significance of attire.
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 12, p
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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Life of meresamun
Companion to the 2009 exhibit, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute Museum. The study of the life of this individual is augmented by forensic evidence obtained with the newest generation of CT scanners that sheds l...
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Cuneiform texts from the ur iii period in the oriental institute, volume 1
The first publication of all 499 cuneiform tablets in the Asiatic Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum that come from the ancient administrative center of Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem) and date to the reign of Shulgi, the second ruler of the Ur III Dynasty (ca. 2094-2047 b.c.).
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Edwin smith surgical papyrus. volume 1
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is one of the most important documents in the history of science, and one of the oldest known scientific treatises surviving from ancient Egypt. Vol 1 contains a historical introduction to the document, followed by translation and commentary. Volume 2 contains col...
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The sheikh's house at quseir al-qadim
This study of a 13th-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast reconstructs a history of the building and the people who lived there. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyu...
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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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Excavations at the cappadocia gate
The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later 7th century BC, it was burned in the mid sixth century and then abandoned. Between 1999 and 2011 one of the seven city gates was excavated in its entirety and ...
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Cuneiform texts from the ur iii period in the oriental institute, volume 2
This volume is the main publication of the 605 cuneiform tablets in the Asiatic Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum that were found at the site of the ancient administrative center Puzriå-Dagan (Drehem) and date to the reign of Amar-Suena (2046-2038 b.c.), the third ruler of the Third Dyn...
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Sumerological studies in honor of thorkild jacobsen on his seventieth birthday, june 7, 1974
A collection of synthetic articles covering the field of Sumerology, including: Nissen on the geography of Sumer, Tom B Jones on the administrative archives, Edzard on the Sumerian oath, Diakonoff on writing, Civil on lexicography, and Sjöberg, Hallo, and Wilcke on different aspects of the Sumeri...
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Studies in arabic literary papyri. volume iii
The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious and secular fields throughout the Umayyad period. Poets and scholars in the various fields used concurrent oral and written transmission for the publication, transmission, and preservation of their literary products.
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Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 7
A number of burials excavated by the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition revealed pottery, objects, and burial customs that are dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty and Napatan periods (ca. 750-200 b.c.). The burials are compared with others published from the region to reconstruct a substantial pe...
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume p, fascicle 3 (pattar to putkiya-)
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 1
This volume is the first of twelve scheduled to present the materials excavated under the direction of Professor Keith C. Seele in a concession that extended from the Abu Simbel temples to the Sudan frontier in two seasons, 1962-63 and 1963-64.
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Old babylonian letters from tell asmar
An archaeological and philological analysis of the inscriptional material and letters found at Tell Asmar in modern-day Iraq, an ancient Sumerian, later Akkadian, city in central Mesopotamia. These finds appear out of a `dark age' of Mesopotamian history and reveal a linguistic continuity from th...
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 15, 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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The second cataract fortress of dorginarti
The final report of the emergency excavations undertaken at Dorginarti, one of the ruined fortresses in the Second Cataract region on the Nile River, necessitated by the building of the Aswan High Dam. Following a description of the fortress's landscape, the book describes its architecture and pr...
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume s, fascicle 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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The archaeology and geography of ancient transcaucasian societies, volume i
Report on the ongoing studies of Project ArAGATS, (Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies) details the general context of contemporary archaeological research in the South Caucasus as well as the specific context of regional investiga...
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Persepolis ii
Persepolis II concludes the report on many seasons of excavations (1935-1939) at the site and is the first publication to adequately illustrate and discuss the pottery of the period, an essential addition to Achaemenian archaeological studies. P
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Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume p, fascicle 1 (pa- to para)
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 oriental institute 2010-2011 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. The reports are complimentary to Members and Donors of the Oriental Institute.
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Our work
Catalogue for exhibit showing many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a manicurist, brewer, boat builder, judge and others. The portraits are accompanied by commentary and will be of interest to educators, histor...
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'like 'ilu are you wise'
The thirty-seven essays in this volume cover, among other topics relating to northwestern Semitic languages, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.
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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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The assyrian dictionary, volume 17, s, 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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Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 6
Details the New Kingdom remains from the Nubian sites of Qustul and Adindan. Nubia prospered, as it was more closely tied to Egypt during this period of its history than at any other time. The Egyptian influence and Nubia's prosperity are clearly depicted in the burials. 206 figures, 53 plates, ...
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The assyrian dictionary, volume 17, s, part 3
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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Tax receipts, taxpayers, and taxes in early ptolemaic thebes
Sets out the early Ptolemaic tax system, describes the changes in the capitation taxes during the reign of Ptolemy II, discusses the other state and temple revenues, and then reconstructs the prosopography and provenance of thirty-nine tax payers whose names occur frequently in these initial stud...
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The ritual landscape at persepolis
An initial step in the development of a religious topography for the zone encompassing Persepolis and Naqs-e Rostam. The glyptic images assembled in this study are the most visually complex, and best dated and contextualized evidence that currently exists for the study of fire in ritual, and reli...
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Soundings at tell fakhariyah
An imposing array of scholars have united to pay a debt of piety to the late C. W. McEwan, whose untimely death in 1950 forestalled the publication of his campaign at Tell Fakhariyah, which took place in 1940.
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Town and country in southeastern anatolia, volume ii
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago conducted excavations at Kurban Höyük, along with surveys of its immediate environs. Located in the lower portion of the Karababa reservoir area, it is one of several sites crucial to understanding the archaeological sequence of the lower portio...
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Excavations at the prehistoric mound of chogha bonut, khuzestan, iran
The results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran. Susiana was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East, and thanks to more than a century of archaeological investigation, it is ...
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Chogha mish. volume 1
Nearly 28 years after the completion of the first five seasons at the Chogha Mish site in Iran, the first of the final reports is now available. The site turned out to be highly significant for the wide range of protoliterate and prehistoric artifacts found there. These volumes examine and lavish...
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Excavations in the plain of antioch volume ii
The second volume of The Excavations in the Plain of Antioch describes a series of excavations in the Syro-Palestinian region. The three sites included in the report are Çatal Hueyuek, Tell al-Judaidah and Tell Tayinat, all situated in the central part of the Amuq valley around the city of Rihani...
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The oriental institute 2005-2006 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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