Divination and interpretation of signs in the ancient world

The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian,...

The lisbon massacre of 1506 and the royal image in the shebet yehudah

Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state's protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have...

The artifacts of tikal--utilitarian artifacts and unworked material

Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a major body of primary data. The...

A new boundary stone of nebuchadrezzr i

Late classical, hellenistic, and roman pottery

This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989).

Reliefs and inscriptions at luxor temple, volume 1

Field work of the Epigraphic Survey on the walls of the temples and tombs of Luxor, recording the inscriptions and reliefs in facsimile for posterity.The portfolio of large drawings is accompanied by a text booklet, which has a list of plates, transliterations and translations of the texts, comme...

Attic grave reliefs that represent women in the dress of isis

The author investigates the appearance of a fashion in clothing, involving a knotted mantle worn across the chest, on many Attic stelae of the Roman period. She suggests that this style can be traced to Egyptian roots, and might have been particularly associated with a cult of Isis, popular among...

Late roman glassware and pottery from amarna and related studies

The second volume updates the excavations at Kom el-Nana, adding stratified pottery and glass. It includes more Late Roman sites near Amarna visited by Miller and Kemp. With only a third of the monastery excavated, dating conclusions may change. The findings aim to assist Middle Eastern and Egypt...

L'art monumental de la france romane

The volume explores the evolution of the Corinthian capital, sculptural decoration, and architectural forms. It focuses on the Loire Valley, Berry, Bourbonnais, and Burgundy, regions known for their innovative art during the Capetian era.

Udjahorresnet and his world

The 6th-century Egyptian politician Udjahorresnet held high political positions in the former Egyptian kingship realm. He became an important figure in transforming Egypt into a regional centre within the vast and culturally diverse empire of the Achaemenid Persians. This volume of essays explore...

Precious cloth and court culture

This book examines the use of precious cloths in courtly settings East and West between the 4th and the 16th centuries. Surviving precious cloths together with new interpretations of contemporary written and visual sources allow for an exploration of common mentalities across Latin Europe, the By...

Design and techniques in early medieval celtic metalwork

This book examines Early Medieval Celtic design in a European context, its links to Anglo-Saxon and continental art, and its debt to classical traditions. It spans topics including gold origins, animal ornament evolution, and design principles and explores early Irish texts on jewellery and cloth...

Machu picchu

Using information gathered from historical, archaeological, and ethnographical sources, shows how the site is situated in the center of sacred mountains and associated with a sacred river, in turn linked with the sun's passage, meaning that Machu Picchu formed a cosmological, hydrological, and sa...

Charis

Scholars of Bronze Age archaeology present papers that address aspects of social, political, religious and ritual significance in wall paintings, matters of chronology, regional trade and interaction, and Cretan architecture. Scholars of the Archaic, Classical and Roman periods explore issues of ...

Animals of ancient egypt

Ceramic production and circulation in the greater southwest

Presents case studies of Southwestern ceramic production and distribution in which instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) is used as the primary analytical technique. Explores issues of exchange, migration, social identity, and economic organization, and provide a comparative perspective...

A bibliographical guide to the study of troubadours and old occitan literature

New bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the 15th-century works of Jordi de Sant Jordi. Will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

Mary of nemmegen

A prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play this is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the 16th century. An analogue of the Faustus story, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.

The pyramid complex of amenemhat i at lisht

This volume covers the relief decoration from three different locations or structures. These reliefs furnish a welcome addition to the little-known relief decoration of pyramid temples of the Middle Kingdom. It is the continuation of the series documenting The Metropolitan Museum of Arts excavati...

Heaven on earth

The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical...

Studies in medieval art and interpretation

Cahn's diverse interests in Romanesque art from the 11th and 12th centuries, including sculpture, painting and book illumination, are displayed in this collection. Themes include the relationship between art and Biblical exegesis, Cistercian art, art's role in expressing beliefs, the depiction of...

The third gender and aelfric's lives of saints

"The Third Gender" considers Ælfric of Eynsham's treatment of gender as he translates Latin monastic saints' Lives for his Anglo-Saxon lay audience.

Miscellaneous investigations in central tikal--the plaza of the seven temples

Details nine structures in Tikal's Plaza, west of the South Acropolis. Based on the Tikal Project Standing Architecture Survey, it offers valuable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, and enthusiasts of Maya construction.

Gara

This book is the first text dedicated to Gara Oasis, one of the smallest oases in Egypt. It presents a general overview of the history, archaeology, and the landscape of the oasis. Gara Oasis is an important transit hub connecting the Nile Delta with the western cultures of Egypt and Libya.

De la royauté hellénique

An account of the institution of the monarchy in modern Greece. The development of the monarchy is explored in parallel with the quest for popular legitimization; the author examines the causes of the unravelling of the strong, but uneasy bond between people and monarchy. 107 b&w photographs....

A manual of egyptian pottery, vol. four

The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

The book of john mandeville

A contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims and Brahmins.

Coexistence

This collection of reflections by the late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania suggests that coexistence is an essential component of human life. However, it is frequently undermined and even poisoned; the book shows how violence has taken new uncontrollable forms which culminate in polymorphous ter...

Shechem iii

This volume presents the stratigraphy and architectural remains of the tell of ancient (biblical) Shechem on the eastern outskirts of the modern municipality of Nablus, in what was at the time of excavation the independent village of Balatah.

The construction of value in the ancient world

Brings together the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place v...