Catalog Of The Oriental Institute Library University Of Chicago

Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library
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Total Pages : 914 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library, University of Chicago written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Henry Breasted
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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago written by James Henry Breasted and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Teeter
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
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Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by Emily Teeter and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Teter, research associate at the Institute, has selected 62 works from the over 25,000 in the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute at the U. of Chicago to provide the general reader and visitor with a sample of the breadth and significance of this little published collection. In addition to the royal portraits and relief sculpture commonly associated with Egyptian art, some more unusual works are included, such as lamps, grooming implements, and games. A history of the collection, especially the role of James Henry Breasted, begins the volume. A glossary, bibliography, map, chronology, and three indexes are included. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781885923806
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Egyptian Book of the Dead written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute and published by Oriental Institute Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 gave way to what we now know as the Book of the Dead. The collections of spells were usually written on rolls of papyrus, that is, in the form of an Egyptian book. Presented here are seventy Book of the Dead documents housed in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. These documents, represented in whole or in part - all Eighteenth Dynasty or later - include seven papyri, three coffins, a shroud, a statuette, three stelae or similar and fifty-five ushabties. This is the first digital reprint of the 1960 publication.

Author : Ignace J. Gelb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Download or read book A Study of Writing written by Ignace J. Gelb and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library
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Total Pages : 880 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library, University of Chicago written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Breasted
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Download or read book Pioneer to the Past (Abridged, Annotated) written by Charles Breasted and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenging and exciting life of James Henry Breasted spanned the most important years of the early western exploration of ancient Egypt. He was at the center of turbulent and world-changing events, including World War I and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter. An immensely talented scholar, he explored the Nile Valley and its antiquities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recording inscriptions and participating in digs with men like Petrie. At his side was his wife, as well as his son Charles, who wrote this admiring work about the life and times of his father. James Breasted was consulted with by such men as General Allenby during WWI. When Howard Carter discovered Tut's tomb in 1922, one of the first men he and his patron, Lord Carnarvon, contacted was Breasted. He not only saw the tomb shortly after its discovery, his effort to mediate between Carter and the Egyptian government when Carter was later locked out of the tomb is detailed here. You cannot understand ancient Egypt or modern Egyptology without knowing about Breasted's remarkable life. He was the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : David B. Weisberg
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection written by David B. Weisberg and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 173 texts contained in this volume were acquired by the Oriental Institute Tablet Collection over a long period of years from various sources. The texts are dated from 699 to 423 BC, during the Neo-Babylonian period. The more noteworthy subject matter of the texts includes an adoption document, sale of houses and a field (from the Nur-Sin archive), a "datio in solutum," a court protocol concerning a loan of silver with interest specified, a loan of silver with interest specified, proceedings in the assembly concerning personal status, a Mar Banutu text from the town of Hubat, a court record concerning the status of a freed person, a contract with fowlers to supply birds to Eanna, an inventory of the finery of the Lady-of-Uruk for craftsmen, a four-column list of precious objects, a two-column list of words, a tablet whose obverse records part of a contract and whose reverse is from Sb B, a fragment of an Akkadian religious text or medical or astrological commentary, and a fragment of a literary text. The book contains transliterations, translations, text notes, commentary, indices, and a mixture of hand-drawn copies and photographs of the tablets.

Author : Lee S. Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134818866
Total Pages : 553 pages
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Download or read book Anthropological Resources written by Lee S. Dutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special knowledge of the resources described. Contributors include James R. Glenn (National Anthropological Archives), Elizabeth Edwards and Veronica Lawrence (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), Francisco Demetrio, S.J. (Museum and Archives, Xavier University, Philippines) and many others. The guide covers selected documentation in social and cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and folklore. Some major area studies collections (such as the Asia Collections, Cornell University Libraries, and the Melanesian Archive at the University of California, San Diego) are also represented. Web URLs have been cited when available and personal, and ethnic name indexes are provided.

Author : George Robert Hughes
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Oriental Institute Hawara Papyri written by George Robert Hughes and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papyri published here, chiefly in the collection of the Oriental Institute Museum, comprise part of a large family archive from the town of Hawara in the Egyptian Fayum. Written in Demotic and Greek, the documents (annuity contracts, donations, sales, mortgage agreements, loan repayments) are an excellent source of information about the Egypt of the fourth to third century b.c. Professor George R. Hughes had worked on the ten Oriental Institute Hawara papyri for a number of years, but sadly, it was not possible for him to finish the manuscript before his death in December 1992; he did, however, prepare preliminary transliterations and translations of the papyri, including the Rendell Papyrus published in the Appendix. Discussions, commentaries, and glossaries are included. Richard Jasnow completed the manuscript with the assistance of James Keenan, who prepared the Greek texts. The book is of interest to Egyptologists, Hellenists, and all of those concerned with the economic and social history of the Late period in Egypt.