The Oriental Institute Of The University Of Chicago

Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Book of the dead
ISBN : 1885923805

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Pdf

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 : Jean M. Evans,Jack Green,Emily Teeter
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1614910480

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100 Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum by Jean M. Evans,Jack Green,Emily Teeter Pdf

"In honor of the Oriental Institute's centennial celebration, this special edition guide to 100 select highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia. The guide features a history of the collections, new photography, provenance information, and a brief description of each object"--

Author : Emily Teeter,University of Chicago. Oriental Institute,University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Museum
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058708408

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Ancient Egypt by Emily Teeter,University of Chicago. Oriental Institute,University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Museum Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1262383363

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The Oriental Institute by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Henry Breasted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000061763890

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The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago by James Henry Breasted Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Abt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226001128

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American Egyptologist by Jeffrey Abt Pdf

James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King Tut, and was on the cover of Time magazine. But Breasted was more than an Indiana Jones—he was an accomplished scholar, academic entrepreneur, and talented author who brought ancient history to life not just for students but for such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Sigmund Freud. In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted’s life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the early years of the University of Chicago. Abt explores the scholarly, philanthropic, diplomatic, and religious contexts of his ideas and projects, providing insight into the origins of America’s most prominent center for Near Eastern archaeology. An illuminating portrait of the nearly forgotten man who demystified ancient Egypt for the general public, American Egyptologist restores James Henry Breasted to the world and puts forward a brilliant case for his place as one of the most important scholars of modern times.

Author : Sabah Abboud Jasim
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614910695

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Tell Abada by Sabah Abboud Jasim Pdf

In the winter of 1978, an extensive archaeological campaign was launched in the Hamrin Basin area in the east-central part of Iraq to salvage many archaeological sites before their flooding, due to the construction of a large dam. This volume documents the excavations carried out in two of the sites-Tell Abada and Tell Rashid-dating back to the Ubaid period in the fifth millennium BC. The first site (Tell Abada) is of particular importance; it is an almost complete village with three occupational levels unearthed. Several residential houses and buildings with distinctive architectural features are exposed. Industrial workshops dedicated to the manufacture of pottery vessels are present. Of express interest was the first-time discovery of pottery-making equipment, notably the potter's wheel. An equally exciting discovery is the presence of many fire installations dedicated to pottery vessels' ?burning. The pottery products are enormous, varied, and richly decorated, reflecting aesthetic features and agility. The presence of the pottery in a very well stratified sequence enhances our understanding of Ubaid pottery, clarifies its chronological classifications, and establishes cultural links with other Ubaid sites in the region. Among other remarkable discoveries are many infant burial urns, granaries, water ducts, and proto-tablets. The varied aspects of the cultural material revealed throughout the excavations provides significant insight into daily life, settlement patterns, craft specialization, religious practices, and socioeconomic status, and sheds new light on the Ubaid period in general in Mesopotamia.

Author : Foy Scalf
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Book of the dead
ISBN : 1614910383

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Book of the Dead by Foy Scalf Pdf

Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.

Author : David B. Weisberg
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015058700983

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Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection by David B. Weisberg Pdf

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 : Daniel David Luckenbill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597523721

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The Annals of Sennacherib by Daniel David Luckenbill Pdf

Sennacharib had evidently long since made up his mind as to the manner in which Babylonian pride was to be handled. He did not take the hand of Marduk as viceroy, but he had himself proclaimed king of Babylon, and and this without using a second name as Tiglath-pileser had done. Nor does he seem to have taken the trouble to honor Marduk by calling on him in his temple. --from Chapter 2 Sennacherib, the great king, the mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters; the shepherd, favorite of the great gods, guardian of the right, lover of justice; who lends support, who comes to the aid of the needy, who turns to pious deeds; . . . the god Assur, the great mountain, an unrivaled kingship has entrusted to me, and above all those who dwell in palaces, has made powerful my weapons; from the upper sea of the setting sun to the lower sea of the rising sun, all the black-headed race he has brought in submission at my feet and mighty kings feared my warfare. --from the Oriental Institute Prism

Author : David Nasgowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0226694747

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Ptolemais Cyrenaica by David Nasgowitz Pdf

Author : James Henry Breasted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:990570510

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The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago by James Henry Breasted Pdf

Author : Nabia Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:927013351

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The Kurrah Papyri from Aphrodito in the Oriental Institute by Nabia Abbott Pdf

Author : Hans Gustav Güterbock,Harry A. Hoffner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Hittite language
ISBN : 1885923007

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The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago by Hans Gustav Güterbock,Harry A. Hoffner Pdf

Author : University of Chicago Oriental Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:865102334

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The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago by University of Chicago Oriental Institute Pdf