Pseira vii

The results of the cemetery excavations on the small island off the northeast coast of Crete are published in two volumes: Pseira VII presents the results from the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery.

A letter that has not been read

Shaul Bar explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorizes them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. He studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of nei...

He diasose

A new study of the persecution and rescue of Greek Jews in the Third Reich, this book overturns stereotypes and myths. Reveals the attitude and actions of the local Jewish leaders raising questions about what was done and by whom. Cites Greek and international sources, incl. documents, testimonie...

The temple of apollo bassitas iv

The definitive publication of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, in the northwest Peloponnese, this is one of four volumes. Volume IV contains maps, plans, and drawings in oversize format illustrating volumes I and II.

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...

Hagia sophia (russian language edition)

The thirteen-centuries-old church of Hagia Sophia, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, has been the focus of scholarly interest and debate since the nineteenth century, generating a remarkably rich bibliography: Greek and foreign. Until now there was no publication addressed to the visitors to t...

The greek chest (english language edition)

For centuries, the chest was the only piece of storage furniture to be found in the Greek home. Highly valuable as a functional item, connected with everyday events and the most important stations in a person's life (birth, marriage and death) the chest has profound, symbolic meaning in the imagi...

Ars prophetica

In Ars-Prophetica, Haim O. Rechnitzer uncovers and recovers the theological elements within the poetry of four renowned Hebrew-Israeli poets. Rechnitzer introduces major works of modern Hebrew poetry that are viewed as part of the "secular" heritage of the renewed Hebrew-Israeli culture.

The fleury playbook

Each essay covers a unique topic in the study of the Playbook, utilizing a diverse set of methodological tools and interdisciplinary approaches for subjects which have not heretofore received adequate scholarly attention. The topics at hand are each of significant interest to the field at large.

Hagia sophia (greek language edition)

The thirteen-centuries-old church of Hagia Sophia, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, has been the focus of scholarly interest and debate since the nineteenth century, generating a remarkably rich bibliography: Greek and foreign. Until now there was no publication addressed to the visitors to t...

These truths we hold

An impressive list of contributors addressing the subject of truth in Jewish tradition and in contemporary Jewish life from different perspectives. The articles are meant to shore up faith and to serve as a bank of resources to orient readers to Judaism's rich, multi-faceted and morally edifying ...

The athenian walk and the historic site of athens (english language edition)

This book is a chronicle of visits made to the Acropolis by Greeks and foreigners in the 19th and 20th centuries, and looks at questions such as how successive generations of visitors experience the shrine of the Acropolis, and how was the new "Athenian Walk" created. English language edition. 21...

Ars musice

Composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music.

Jewish daily life in medieval northern europe, 1080-1350

This sourcebook is designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries. The volume consists of translations of primary sources written by or about medieval Jews.

Necropolis of gonur

Gonur was the most important city in the kingdom of Margiana, Turkmenistan. The cemetery contained c3,000 tombs, dating from the end of 3rd to beginning of 2nd millennium BC; it is the largest necropolis of the period to have been excavated. Contains results of the excavations, and anthropologica...

Anthony munday: the honourable, pleasant and rare conceited historie of palmendos

Anthony Munday (1560?-1633) published this English translation of a Spanish heroic romance in 1589; it follows the adventures of Palmendos on his journey to Constantinople. This is an original-spelling edition producing a reliable text, as close as possible to the author's original manuscript.

Charilaos trikupis mia biographici periigisi

Biography of Harilaos Trikoupis, Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895. 600 colour illustrations: photographs, paintings and prints, newspaper cuttings, maps and cartoons, mostly unpublished until now. Provides insight into his family and political environment. Greek language ...

The sydney cyprus survey project

The project devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992-1997) to an intensive archaeological survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Provides a comprehensive data set including lithics, pottery, site types, and radiocarbon dates. F...

Demon things

This contributed volume presents a broad array of manifestations given to demons in Ancient Egypt through iconography, objects, or textual descriptions. The contributors explore the range and variation of the entities that the ancient Egyptians believed were capable of harm and help.

The sumerian texts from ancient iraq

Unique study of 145 tablets, from an unknown site near Nippur in Southern Iraq.  The tablets are the documents of a high official named Aradmu, and detail routine agricultural operations, including receipts and grain loans. The tablets were repatriated to Iraq in late 2010.

The combat of the thirty

In this volume Steven Muhlberger translates the historical accounts of the Combat of the Thirty and then examines both what contemporaries thought, and how the battle has been remembered through the centuries, giving readers a window into late medieval chivalric culture.

The castle of perseverance

Morality play deals allegorically with the life of man, his struggle against temptation and sin and hope of final redemption. The play begins before Mankind's birth and concludes with his salvation after death, and features the traditional enemies of Mankind (the World, the Flesh and the Devil) a...

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...

The saint play in medieval europe

This illustrated volume provides a much-needed introduction to what may have been the most popular variety of drama in the Middle Ages: the saint play. A comprehensive and collaborative survey is provided with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study rather than only literary analysis.

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...

The easter sepulchre in england

In addition to a catalogue of Easter sepulchres in England, Professor Sheingorn has produced a superb study of the ceremonies, rites and dramas associated with this structure.

The petra church

The Petra Church offers detailed scholarship about the excavation of the church itself but also about the historical environment of the communities living in the Petra area, a historical and archaeological city, capital of the kingdom of the Nabataeans in southern Jordan. Illustrated throughout i...

Rethinking mycenaean palaces ii

This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters.

Moche fineline painting from san jose de moro

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Studies a sample of more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro, providing insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record ...

Hebrew union college annual volume 29

Archaeological research on the islands of the sun and moon, lake titicaca, bolivia

This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important locations in the circum-Titicaca Basin, with detailed survey and excavation data indispensable for Andeanists and other scholars interested in the development of complex political, economic, and ritual systems in prehi...

Roger federer

Roger Federer's sporting exploits are well-known, but who is the man behind them? This book captures the Federer phenomenon over fifteen thematically arranged chapters. And there's no shortage of anecdotes: the book is as entertaining as Federer's game.

Hebrew union college annual volume 62

Graffiti as devotion along the nile and beyond

The historical context for a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 at El-Kurru in northern Sudan, a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written to engage non-specialist readers, the book will be of interest to archaeologists an...

Yang xiong and the pleasures of reading and classical learning in china

Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master was supremely aware of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages and to the Classics, contrasting the unusual strength of the basic drives for food and sex with the general weakness of the acquired inclinations toward moral behaviour.

City in the desert, revisited

Featuring previously unpublished documents and reproducing over fifty photographs from archaeological excavations led by Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr in Syria, this book recounts the personal experiences and professional endeavours that shaped the growth of the fields of Islamic archaeology, art a...

Humayma excavation project, 2

This volume reports on a Nabataean campground, which provides unique testimony to the flexible character of Nabataean settlement design, and provides detailed information on the Nabataean necropolis, which shows parallels with those at both Petra and Hegra.

Palestine in the evolution of syrian nationalism (1918-1920)

Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism analyzes the place of Palestine in the development of Syrian nationalism from the inception of Syria as a modern nation-state following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.

A silver book, recent work by thaleia-maria georgoulis

Works by the talented Greek silversmith Thaleia-Maria Georgoulis marking her contribution to the COLLECT exhibition at London' s Victoria and Albert Museum. English and Greek. 50 photographs, b&w and col. Parallel text Greek and English

The smyrna quay

Original research using new techniques shows the buildings of the legendary Ottoman port-city (modern-day Izmir) as a continuous architectural and historical ensemble. Includes architectural plans and reconstructions as well as photographs and photomosaics. 620 illus. 140 drawings 2-vol paperback...

Modalities in medieval jewish law for public order and safety

The history of medieval Jewry presents one inescapable fact: the Jews were a people apart. No matter where or when we find a Jewish community in the Middle Ages, it was an alien enclave within a host society which was sometimes cordial to it and sometimes not.

The king of tars

The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.

Art and practice of 16th-century german fencing

Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537 - 1571) was one of the most influential fencing masters of the Renaissance—a prolific writer of fencing manuals. In Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing Robert Rutherfoord unpacks the complex and elegant art of Meyer's rapier in word and image, including over 20...

Shakespeare, antony and cleopatra, and the nature of fame

Characterological study offering new perspectives on Antony and Cleopatra, the most ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays. Wide-ranging in its concerns, this monograph promises to make an essential difference in the way scholars view characterizations, fame, Shakespeare's reputation, and the eminence ...

The mortuary papyrus of padikakem

This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and paleography among the p...

Archaeology of the chinese bronze age

Analyzing the complexity of early Chinese culture history, and the variety and development of its urban formations, Roderick Campbell explores East Asia's divergent developmental paths and re-examines its deep past to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of China's Early Bronze Age.

Mummings and entertainments

This book presents a large sampling of the dramatic texts of John Lydgate, the preeminent poet of fifteenth-century England. These verses are, as Claire Sponsler notes in her introduction, 'of great importance for literary and theatrical history.'

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...

Hebrew union college annual volume 68

Multi nominis grammaticus

Thirty internationally recognized scholars celebrate the work of the famous Indo-Europeanist Alan J. Nussbaum. The topics range from Indo-European nominal morphology, especially in the Classical languages, to the historical grammars of Tocharian, the stylistics of the Rigveda and Aristophanean ph...

The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at lofkend, albania

The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.

Commentary on the song of songs

The commentary of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. ca. 1245) on the Song of Songs is one of the most important texts of the first clearly identified circle of Kabbalists, those operating in the Catalonian town of Gerona at the middle of the thirteenth century.

Sources of anglo-saxon literary culture

Aims at a comprehensive, descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990).

The floure and the leafe, the assembly of ladies, the isle of ladies

An asset to any study of gender in medieval England; three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. Incl. contextualizing introductions and helpful glosses; also an extensive glossary for the entire volume. Useful to not only beginning students of Middl...

Applied zooarchaeology

Zooarchaeologists increasingly focus onconservation biology.  This book uses a series of case studies explore the types of interdisciplinary challenges that zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of environmental management and animal conservation.

The sinai peninsula

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 7.1 (2015) contributes to a greater understanding and appreciation of the rich heritage of the Sinai Peninsula in its role as a key land bridge Africa and Asia and as a region important in its own right.

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...

The demotic and hieratic papyri in the suzuki collection of tokai university, japan

This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time; Representing a range of document types and of demotic handwriting.  Includes a a rare word list and a new mythological narrative, one late hieratic text concerned with temple land, and some Greek fragments f...

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...

Pottery and society

Philip P. Betancourt revolutionised the study of Minoan pottery--just one of the many aspects of his career that led to his Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This volume presents some of the most recent studies in Minoan pottery using the techniques and methodologies pione...

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 ...

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...

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.

The merit of our mothers

The prayers in this volume are characterized by a highly personal and intimate style and mark occasions in the religious calendar, such as the Tkhine for the Blessing of the New Moon, as well as occasions in the life of a woman, such as the Tkhine for a Mother who Leads Her Child to Kheyder for t...

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.

Divine honors for mortal men in greek cities

First translation of Christian Habicht's 1970 German Gottmenschentum und Griechische Städte on ruler cults in the Hellenistic period of Greek history. Updated case studies take account of inscriptional discoveries since the original and additional supplemental material, including detailed subject...

The greening of american orthodox judaism

The history of a relatively unknown and short-lived Jewish collegiate organization, Yavneh (The National Jewish Religious Students Association) particularly during its heyday in the 1960s: Yavneh's appearance in 1960, its mission and organizational efflorescence, its educational innovations, its ...

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...

The roman marble sculptures from the sanctuary of pan at caesarea philippi/panias (israel)

This is the first publication on a deposit of broken marble statues, discovered in 1992 during excavations of the Roman Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi , in Panias, Israel.  

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.

Thucydidean narrative and discourse

Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. This book brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new ...

Archaism and innovation

The current volume assembles a series of studies of Middle Kingdom culture gathered around the theme of archaism, change and innovation.

Coping with obscurity

The papers presented at Brown University's Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar in 2013 discussed the grammatical value of written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). They present orthographic, lexical, morphological and syntactic approaches, and are a n...

Palamedes volume 8

Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet ...

Architectural improvisation

Examines the work of a group of architects which converged in Vermont in the mid-1960s, tracing the development of this Design/Build movement from its roots in Bauhaus theory at Yale School of Architecture. It includes archival photographs and drawings and new architectural photographs. A stunnin...

Ceramics of postclassic cholula, mexico

Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico's Postclassic period. This book provides an innovative new classification of Cholula ceramics, based on artifact assemblages recovered from excavations. A detailed and well-illustrated description of ceramic types is provided to ...

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...

Immortal egypt

Essays on Egyptology by G.R. Hughes, D. Schmandt-Besserat, K. Butzer, W.K. Simpson, H.A. Liebowitz, T.A. Wertime, L. Mesnick Gallery and C. Aldred.

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.

Blood and beauty

The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation ...

Ritual landscape and performance

Ritual Landscape and Performance contains various articles discussing the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia.

A window on their world

The court diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim (d. 1795), a member of the rabbinic court of late eighteenth-century Frankfurt, shed light on daily life in the Judengasse ("Jewish lane"), home to over 3,000 people, including Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the famous banking family.

Modern jewish mythologies

Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life.

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...

The ethiopian legend of solomon and sheba

The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is best known for her legendary meeting with King Solomon, an encounter that has resonated through time, nowhere more powerfully than in Ethiopia. 95 colo...