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In Remembrance of Me
Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East
Av Virginia Rimmer Herrmann, J. David Schloen
Häftad, 2014
225 kr
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This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument (stele) of an official named Katumuwa (ca. 735 BC), discovered in 2008 by University of Chicago …
Cosmopolitan City
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo
Av Tanya Treptow, T. Vorderstrasse
Häftad, 2015
180 kr
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This companion volume to the exhibit examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explores the interactions of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities within urban city life. These three communities practiced their own beliefs and …
Book of the Dead
Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
Av Foy Scalf
Häftad, 2017
472 kr
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This book explores what the Book of the Dead was to the ancient Egyptians, what it means to us today, what it was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and ultimately what happened to it. Edited by Foy Scalf, PhD, this volume includes fourteen essays showcasing the latest research on the …
100 Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum
Inbunden, 2019
1248 kr
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This special edition of Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum commemorates the 2019 centennial of the Oriental Institute and presents 100 highlights from ancient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia in the collections.
Antoin Sevruguin
Past and Present, the changing world of late C19th Iran
Inbunden, 2021
2069 kr
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Explore the changing world of late nineteenth-century Iran through the gaze of one of its most renowned photographers, Antoin Sevruguin. This volume publishes for the first time the Oriental Institute Museum’s complete collection of nineteenth-century Iranian photographs, most of which were created …
Embroidering Identities
A Century of Palestinian Clothing
Häftad, 2006
389 kr
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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 nineteenth and early twentieth-century Palestine. The richly …
Life of Meresamun
A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt
Av Janet H Johnson, Emily Teeter
Häftad, 2009
381 kr
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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 …
Ancient Israel
Häftad, 2010
183 kr
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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 …
Visible Language
Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond
Häftad, 2010
519 kr
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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 …
Picturing the Past
Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East
Av Jack Green, John A. Larson m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
180 kr
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This fully illustrated catalogue 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 …
Between Heaven and Earth
Birds in Ancient Egypt
Häftad, 2012
499 kr
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Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. Essays address the role of birds in the religious landscape, their use in hieroglyphic and …
Our Work
Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
Häftad, 2013
180 kr
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Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a baker, farmer, manicurist, brewer, poet, boat builder, judge and other …
Ancient Egypt
Treasures from the Collection of the Oriental Institute
Av Emily Teeter
Häftad, 2003
259 kr
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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 early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many …
Daily Life Ornamented
The Medieval Persian City of Rayy (OIMP 26)
Häftad, 2007
417 kr
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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 …
Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
Av Katharyn Hanson, Geoff Emberling
Häftad, 2008
183 kr
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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, …
Baked Clay Figurines and Votive Beds from Medinet Habu
Av Emily Teeter
Inbunden, 2008
1275 kr
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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 …
Pioneers to the Past
American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920
Häftad, 2010
183 kr
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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 …
Lost Nubia
A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905-1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago
Inbunden, 2006
510 kr
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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 Institute Museum. Curated by John A Larson, Oriental …
European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750
Maps from the Collection of O J Sopranos
Av Ian Manners
Inbunden, 2008
737 kr
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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 …
Before the Pyramids
The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
Av Emily Teeter
Häftad, 2011
558 kr
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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 …
