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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 many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia.

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 many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia.

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 many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia.

A report on the excavation during the 1950s of an Early Dynastic Temple discovered in the northwestern part of the Religious Quarter of Nippur. The volume includes reports on the structural remains, the burials and the finds, such as pottery, tablets, seals, ornaments and figurines.

The manuscript consists of seven papers presented at the Theban Workshop, 2006. Ranging from models of culture-history, to studies of specific administrative offices, a single statue type, inscriptions in a single temple, and inscriptions of a single king.

Fully illustrated catalogue of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the 2012 Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East . Presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, models, photographs, and reconstructions showing how the ancient Middle East has been documented.

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 ruins and looking at the gold-extraction process.

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 the reign of Hatshepsut and the early New Kingdom.

Catalogue for an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum presenting research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods: the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis and the Delta. Will be a standard reference and a staple for classroom use.

This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project.

After World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. McCown chose the Ram Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region south and east of the provincial town of Ahvaz down to the Persian Gulf. He recorded 118 sites in the areas and eventually chose for excavation the large prehistoric mound complex Tall-e Geser.

Tell Hamoukar is one of the largest Bronze Age sites in northern Mesopotamia. Presents the results of three seasons of field survey and remote-sensing analysis at the site and region. This area is one of the best-preserved ancient landscapes of movement in the world. Appendices describe the 60 sites, surface assemblages and ceramic typology.

Remains of sculpture and fragments of an important inscription in the Old Phrygian language were found during excavations at the sixth century BC walled city on Kerkenes Mountain in Central Turkey. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs A Turkish summary is provided.

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 world.