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ISBN: 9781885923257
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 23
This fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the ear... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923455
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 24
Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905-1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago is the catalogue for the inaugural exhibit in the Marshall and Doris Holleb Family Special Exhibits Gallery of the Oriental Insti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923493
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 25
Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing is the companion piece to the exhibit held at the Oriental Institute from November 11, 2006 to March 25, 2007. It is an overview of the colourful and distinctive clothing of late ninet... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923516
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 26
Archaeologists work with broken fragments to build pictures of life in past societies. In many excavations, the most abundant fragments we work with are broken pieces of ceramic vessels and objects (we call them "sherds"), which we find by the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923561
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 28
With an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Contributors include Donny George, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923752
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 27
This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750 , explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the informa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923585
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 133
This catalog presents the entire corpus of 272 baked clay figurines and votive beds excavated at Medinet Habu by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago during their 1926-1933 campaign. The figurines represent women, women with chi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923608
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 29
This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy,
dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of The
Oriental Institute museum in Chicago, IL.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923707
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 30
Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James ... .... Learn More