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

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 ...

The greek tile works at corinth

A series of kilns at ancient Corinth known as the Tile Works are given final publication in this awaited book, based on excavations conducted in 1939 and 1940. The book describes the kilns and their products, with a discussion of fabrics and techniques of manufacture, moving on to typology and da...

The mycenaean feast

This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast. While much of the evidence discussed comes from the Palace of Nestor near Pylos, the authors also present new material from Tsoungiza near Nemea, and from other Bronze Age sites on mainland Greece a...

The middle bronze age iia cemetery at gesher

Gesher is a small Middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery site located in the central Jordan Valley in Israel. During five seasons of excavation, a total of 23 interments were excavated in the cemetery. This final report presents the burials and material culture from the cemetery and compares the data wit...

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.

The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 2

This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East

Archaeology in the borderlands

Traditionally portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the ancient world. This book re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, a...

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...

Britain's departure from aden and south arabia

Five decades after the final British troops left Aden, academic experts and former British officials directly involved in the events reflect on British withdrawal from South Arabia, and how the United Kingdom learnt from its experience in stabilising Oman while overseeing the formation of the Uni...

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Dark goddess

What does it mean when an item within a museum talks back? How are the concepts of the trained gaze, the panopticon, and the sacred feminine connected? Artist and writer Shanta Lee Gander probes these questions and more in Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine.

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Bulletin of the egyptological seminar

Most of this issue of BES is devoted to "Abbreviations in Egyptology," a comprehensive research tool that provides scholars with more than 5200 abbreviations used in Egyptological and Biblical literature. It is of particular use to those without ready access to the Lexikon der Ägyptologie. 

The free and the brave

This bilingual catalog (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 to explore the relations and connections between Greece and the United States from the American Revolution of 1776 to the C...

'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.

Studies in early islamic history (with an introduction by g. r. hawting)

This is a collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Most of the articles concern the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early Abbasid caliphate.

Topography and architecture

This volume provides the fullest possible picture of the temenos of Poseidon in Greek and Roman times, including the closely related stadia and the sanctuary of Palaimon and several monuments excavated to the west of the sanctuary: the Sacred Glen, the West Foundation, and the Hippodrome.

Vedic ideals of sovereignty and the poetics of power

This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry.

Deviance and identity

The sociology of deviance was in its heyday when this book was published in 1969. John Lofland traces the field from pre-World War II to the late sixties and pioneers the application of “grounded theory” to the study of deviant behavior.

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Dueling with o-sensei

O-Sensei was a martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of Aikido. Amdur brought something new to martial arts writing – a startling honesty about the flaws, not only within martial arts culture, but also within its practitioners. Originally published in 2001, fully revised, with 8 ...

Mapping mediterranean lands

This special issue of the Gennadius Library's periodical, The New Griffon, presents six essays about the Library's map collection and its place in a larger project to bring together, in a digital repository, maps and charts of the Mediterranean held in American overseas research centers. The text...

Gold of praise

This Festschrift in honor of Prof. Edward F. Wente contains contributions by forty-three of his colleagues and friends.

Preliminary excavation reports and other archaeological investigations

A Gazeteer of Iron I Sites in the North Central Highlands of Palestine (Daniel Miller, II): An excellent reference source for archaeological sites known through survey and excavation, this gazetteer catalogues all known (360) Iron I sites in the north-central highlands of Palestine, north of Jeru...

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...

Advances in titicaca basin archaeology-2

Second in a series of studies on the archaeology of the Titicaca Basin, serves as an excellent springboard for broader discussions of the roles of ritual, authority, coercion, and the intensification of resources and trade for the development of archaic states worldwide.

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, ...

The desert fayum reinvestigated

Suggests an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.

Remember amalek!

The divine command to exterminate Amalek--men, women, children and even animals who have no free will--is what in contemporary terms has been called genocide. This book explores how the earliest commentators wrestled with the issues involved in this divine command that an entire people must be et...

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...

A marxist archaeology

This book applies Marxist theory to archaeology, explores long-term historical change and cultural evolution, and advocates a dialectical and historical approach to the study of the past.  Originally published by Academic Press in 1992, this edition features a new prologue by the author.

Agora excavations, 1931-2006

A pictorial history of the archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic centre of classical Athens, illustrated with many archival photographs and primary documents. It focuses on some key moments in the Agora's history including the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos and the restorati...

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...

Tholos tomb gamma

This publication includes a detailed discussion of the pottery, the finds and their parallels, and a reconstruction of both the excavation and stratigraphy of Tholos Gamma in the Bronze Age cemetery of Phourni at Archanes in Crete.

Engendering aphrodite

The papers in this volume focus on issues of gender and society in ancient Cyprus from the Neolithic to Roman periods. The introduction of gender as a focal point in archaeological research will continue to advance the discipline by contributing vital new approaches to the social interactions of ...

First kings of europe (2- volume set)

Over several millennia, early agricultural villages gave rise to tribal kingdoms and monarchies, replacing smaller, more egalitarian social structures with complex state organizations led by royal individuals invested with power. These two beautifully illustrated volumes accompany and internation...

Birds of the athenian agora

As well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess Athena, many other birds played an important role in Greek art and symbolism. This booklet describes the ways in which the Greeks viewed birds, from useful hawks and fowl to exotic parakeets and peacocks.

Kleronomia

The 27 papers in this volume harken to the themes that Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewelry, the development of the Minoan settlement of Mochlos in eastern Crete, and the rise and fall of th...

Alatzomouri pefka

Excavation of an important site for the early history of dyeing in Minoan Crete revealed a Middle Bronze Age natural dye workshop with several basins carved into bedrock, pottery and stone vessels, stone tools, and animal and plant remains. The evidence contributes new information on the Minoan t...

Retrieval of materials with water separation machines

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...

The dilemma of security and defense in the gulf region

The defence and security status of the Gulf region is facing a dilemma between the maintenance of regional security and the preservation of domestic security interests. The consequences for the Gulf and the greater Middle East are addressed in this edited volume, with contributions from practitio...

Ostraka

The scraps of pottery on which were written the names of candidates for ostracism are one of the most intriguing pieces of evidence for ancient democracy found in the Athenian Agora. This book is a complete catalogue and discussion of these sherds.

The excavations of 'iraq al-amir

The Excavations of 'Iraq al-Amir, Volume II is the second volume of reports from Paul Lapp's excavations at 'Iraq al-Amir in 1961 and 1962. The presentation of the stratified corpus of the Hellenistic and Roman pottery in the Village excavations, from approximately 200 BCE to 200 CE, by Michael S...

Settlement archaeology and political economy at tres zapotes, veracruz, mexico

This volume presents new information from a program of intensive archaeological survey and surface collection at an important Olmec and Epi-Olmec centre.

Occidentalism, conspiracy and taboo

Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West. This fourth and final volume of his works in English includes his essays Faith and Reason in Islam, Sharia from a Secular ...

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.

Early burials from the agora cemeteries

Before the creation of the Agora as a civic centre in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient burial places have been found by excavators, and a few of the more remarkable are described here.

Lamps from the athenian agora

At night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the lights of oil lamps, and thousands of fragments of these distinctive objects have been found. This booklet presents the development of different styles of lamps and includes a very useful identification guide.

The church of the holy apostles

The Church of the Holy Apostles stands at an important crossroads in the southeast corner of the area of the ancient Agora. This book considers its design in relation to other churches in Greece, and describes the restoration. It includes photos of the structure before, during and after restorati...

Excavations at cerro azul, peru

Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. During the Late Intermediate period , the lower Canete Valley of Peru was controlled by the Kingdom of Huarco. The seaside community of Cerro Azul, 130 km south of Lima, produced fish for the kingdom. This is the final site report on the architecture ...

The trucial coast political reports 1963-1966

The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.

The anubieion at saqqara iii

This volume is the first in a series on ceramics from the Egypt Exploration Society's excavations in the Anubieion at Saqqara. It explores pottery evidence from the site's use over millennia, contextualizing it within Saqqara and Memphis's history, covering from the first use until the 8th centur...

Images in action

Presents interpretations of a large corpus of art and iconography from the Southern and South-Central Andes, bringing together the most esteemed scholars in the field. Uses artifacts, artworks, textiles, archaeology, and architecture to develop new insights on the cultural interactions between pe...

Excavations at pylos in elis

When the site of Elean Pylos was threatened by the construction of a dam in 1968, a team from the University of Colorado moved in to salvage as much information as possible about the ancient town before it was submerged. This report is divided chronologically: Middle Helladic, Geometric, Archaic,...

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...

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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Ridolfo capoferro's the art and practice of fencing

Rapier instructor Tom Leoni offers a full, accurate and accessible English translation of Ridolfo Capoferro's teachings in the Great Representation of the Art and Practice of Fencing, complete with high-resolution reproductions of the 43 original illustrations. Includes a glossary of rapier-fenci...

Happiness in premodern judaism

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Hebrew union college annual

The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present. 

Managing boundaries in the health professions

The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects these boundarie...

Oi agioi topoi

This book is devoted to a category of manuscripts known as proskynetaria, which contain descriptions of the monuments of Palestine, especially the Christian ones. The manuscripts have many similarities with modern travel books, or with tourist guides to archaeological sites. Greek language text. ...

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...

Marsa matruh ii

This volume of the report on excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates' Island, which is located in a lagoon on the seacoast at the north of Egypt's western desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the crucibles and other evidence for metalworking, the organic finds (including ostrich egg she...

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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Arabic for archaeologists

Arabic for Archaeologists is a pocket-sized booklet for work in the field. It contains essential words and phrases, each presented in English, Arabic transliteration, and Arabic.

Tales from the aegean

The author describes his adventures over most of a lifetime across the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seas where he pursued careers as diplomat and educator. These accounts range from assisting afflicted Americans to restore their lives to aiding the inhabitants of a monastery to capture covete...

The pacatnamu papers, volume 2

This volume includes the results of a five-year excavation (1983-1987) at Pacatnamu, Peru, combining archaeological excavation with physical anthropology, botany, zoology, textile analysis, ethnography, and ethnohistory. Focuses on the period of Moche occupation. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Understanding chipped stone tools

This is a unique study of prehistoric stone tools, advocating an experiential approach to understanding stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employing a universal logic of designing tools; an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools.

City and cemetery volume 1

The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organisation of Kourion on the south coast of Cyprus, and in its transformations between the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. This first volume presents the chamber tombs and cist tombs, quarrying evidence and deposition act...

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.

Petras, siteia i

This volume is the first of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial to Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and palace of Petras, Siteia, located in eastern Crete, and it presents the results of the excavations conducted there from 1985 to 2000.

Crossroads and boundaries

This research has focused on how successive rural populations in the Malloura valley have adapted to local environmental changes and shifting political tides in the region, and how this adaptation is reflected in the archaeological, historical, and ethnographic record recovered by the project and...

Defining israel

The first book in any language devoted to the controversial passage of Israel's nation-state law. Israel has no constitution, and though it calls itself the Jewish state there is no agreement among Israelis on how that fact should be reflected in the government's laws or by its courts.

Russia and the syrian conflict

This book is the first to offer a comprehensive survey of Moscow's foreign policy interests in Syria. The author considers the Kremlin's diplomacy on Syria within the broader system of Russian foreign policy in the Middle East; he analyses the influence of Russian domestic dimensions on Moscow's ...