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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - Oriental Institute Museum Publications

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	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 133 Baked Clay Figurines and Votive Beds from Medinet Habu by Emily Teeter 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 children, men, deities, and animals. They date from the sixteenth century B.C. to the ninth century A.D., illustrating permanence and change in themes of clay figurines as well as stylistic development within ... Hardback. Price GB £56.00
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 34 Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East Edited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter and John A Larson This fully illustrated catalog of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East (on exhibit February 7 through September 2, 2012). Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, models, photographs, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how the architecture, sites, and artifacts of the ancient ... Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £19.95
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33 Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization edited by Emily Teeter This catalogue for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on 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 were contributed by leading scholars in the field. The catalogue features 129 Predynastic and Early ... Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £27.95
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 32 Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond edited by Christopher Woods Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. Essays on writing in China and Mesoamerica complete coverage of the four pristine writing systems - inventions of writing in which there was no previous exposure to texts. The ... Paperback. Price GB £20.00
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 31 Ancient Israel: Highlights from the Collections of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago by Gabrielle V. Novacek On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to permanent public display. The Oriental Institute's prolific history of exploration in the region is testament to a long-standing scholarly passion for discovery and the pursuit of knowledge. This volume draws ... Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £30.00
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 30 Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920 edited by Geoff Emberling 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 Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history. At the end of World War I, Breasted and a small team of scholars set sail ... Paperback. Price GB £24.95
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 29 Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt edited by Emily Teeter and Janet H. Johnson 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. The text introduces the historical and cultural setting of Egypt during her time. Essays and artifacts examine the role of music and of musicians in Egyptian temple cults, their training, and the types of musical ... Paperback. Price GB £25.00
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 28 Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past edited by Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson 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, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, ... Paperback. Price GB £20.00
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 27 European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos by Ian Manners 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 information collected and brought back by travellers and voyagers. The text is accompanied by images of illuminated manuscript charts and atlases, the earliest printed maps of the Ottoman Empire, and ... Hardback. Price GB £30.00
	Oriental Institute Museum Publications 26 Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy (OIMP 26) by Tanya Treptow 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 thousands in a typical dig. These sherds can tell us quite remarkable things about the past: when a site was occupied in history, what trade contacts it had, and what kinds of everyday activities people ... Paperback. Price GB £18.99

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