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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - Oriental Institute Publications
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Oriental Institute Publications
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago
edited by Thomas George Allen
Hope for life after death is evidenced even in prehistoric times in Upper Egypt. The first written aids for attaining and supporting life in the hereafter were the Pyramid Texts inscribed within royal tombs towards the end of the Old Kingdom. In the Middle Kingdom, many texts were borrowed from the pyramid chambers and mingled with new spells; this new form, which today we call Coffin Texts, was usually written inside coffins. These eventually ...
Hardback. Price GB £56.00
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Oriental Institute Publications
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Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah
by Calvin W McEwan, Linda S Braidwood, Henri Frankfort, Hans G Güterbock, Richard C Haines, Helene J Kantor, and Carl H Kraeling
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. That the important results obtained by McEwan ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £37.50
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Oriental Institute Publications
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Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri. Volume III: Language and Literature y Nabia Abbott
Abbott, Nabia
The present volume concludes the series of studies in Arabic literary papyri as envisaged in the Preface to Volume I. The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious and secular fields throughout the Umayyad period. ...
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Oriental Institute Publications
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Persepolis III: The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments
by E F Schmidt
The third and final volume is linked with the preceding volumes mainly by the graphic and descriptive documentation of the tombs of the Achaemenid monarhs at Naqsh-i Rustam, and Persepolis, by a study of the excavated Achaemenid Tower at Naqsh-i Rastum, ...
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Oriental Institute Publications
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Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries
by Erich F. Schmidt
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. ...
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Oriental Institute Publications
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Tell Hamoukar, Volume 1. Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001
by Jason A. Ur
Tell Hamoukar is one of the largest Bronze Age sites in northern Mesopotamia. The present volume presents the results of three seasons of field survey and remote-sensing analysis at the site and its region. These studies were undertaken to address questions of urban origins, land use and demographic trends through time. Site descriptions and settlement histories are presented for Hamoukar and 59 other sites in its immediate hinterland over the ...
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Oriental Institute Publications
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Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia. Volume I: Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide: A Study of the Region During Pliocene and Pleistocene Times
by K S Sandford and W J Arkell
The eminent geologists to whom this study of one of the most perplexing problems of Nile Valley structure is due have made an extremely significant contribution. Rising and falling lake levels within the Faiyum during relatively recent times, dynastic or ...
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