This text and microfiche record of 1000 photographs presents a comprehensive survey of archaeological sites in the vicinity of Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital founded by Darius the Great around 518 BC. The account is divided into four sections, summarizing the major areas of investigation: the architecture, reliefs and finds of the palaces at Persepolis; the prehistoric mound of Tall i-Bakun; Istakhr, the Islamic city mound; and the aerial survey lights conducted between 1935 and 1937.

Persepolis and Ancient Iran (OIP MICROEDITIONS SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS)

History

Schneider,Ursula

Ancient Civilizations

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia Vol. II: Palaelothic Man and the Nile Valley in Nubia and Upper Egypt: A Study of the Region during Pliocene and Pleistocene Times (MICROEDITIONS OIP)

Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia Vol. III: Palaeolithic Man (MICROEDITIONS OIP)

`Computer aided' is somewhat daunting in books dating from 1980 but the underlying purpose of this book, to provide linguistically ordered lists of 6,662 proper names excerpted from Sumerian and Akkadian texts, remains useful since most of our knowledge of the non-Akkadian Semitic dialect comes from these names.

Computer Aided Analysis of Amorite (ASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES)

Gelb, I. J.

Middle East

Zimansky investigates the reasons for the surprising emergence of a centralised state in the inhospitable, highland areas on the Eastern border of Turkey in the 9th century BC. Using both archaeological and textual sources, the author discusses Urartian history in detail and shows how the presence of the massive Assyrian empire was a major structuring force.

Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State.

Zimansky, Paul E

An exploration of the significance of the wars of Sety I and of the general pattern of Egyptian-Hittite relations, which culminated first in the battle of Kadesh and finally in the treaty enacted during the reign of Ramesses II.

The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization)

Murnane, William J.

Groups of part-time workers called "phyles" served in mortuary cults and work crews during the Old Kingdom in Egypt. This study clarifies their attributes and functioning in these and other institutions, based on the integration of textual and archaeological evidence from the Old Kingdom and the Archaic period preceding it. The arguments suggest that phyles originated in an upper Egyptian social organization dated to the predynastic period, and that they played a more important role than is generally realized in the stability of the early Egyptian state.

Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization (STUDIES IN ANCIENT ORIENTAL CIVILIZATION)

Roth, Ann Macy

This monograph gives a long and detailed description of all the members of the king's cortege from the moment he leaves the palace in the morning for a court procedure until his return later in the day. The text dates from the 15th century b.c. Apart from being interesting from a linguistic point of view, this instruction contains many points of interest for archaeologists and historians alike because of its descriptions of buildings, wagons, chariots, and other realia. This edition offers a full transliteration and translation of the Hittite text, a summary of its contents, a commentary as well as a separate discussion of some architectural terms. An exhaustive glossary concludes the book.

The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard (ASSYRIOLOGICAL STUDIES)

This symposium volume deals with the structure, operation, and ideology of ancient Near Eastern bureaucracies. Four of the ten papers deal with the Third Dynasty of Ur (Mesopotamia, 2100-2000 b.c.), two with Egypt (Old Kingdom and Ptolemaic), one with Byzantium, and the others treat bureaucracy from sociological or anthropological perspectives. The Organization of Power is well edited and handsomely produced. [From a review by Benjamin R. Foster in American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989) 292-93]. Contents: Introduction (McG. Gibson); 'In a City Without Watchdogs the Fox is the Overseer': Issues and Problems in the Study of Bureaucracy (M. G. Morony); The Administrative and Economic Organization of the Ur III State: The Core and the Periphery (P. Steinkeller); Ur III Bureaucracy: Quantitative Aspects (M. Civil); Charisma and Control: On Continuity and Change in Early Mesopotamian Bureaucratic Systems (P. Michalowski); Legitimation of Authority Through Image and Legend: Seals Belonging to Officials in the Administrative Bureaucracy of the Ur III State (I. J. Winter); Administration of the Temple of Inanna at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur: Archaeological and Documentary Evidence (R. L. Zettler); The Organization and Functioning of the Royal Mortuary Cults of the Old Kingdom in Egypt (A. M. Roth); Ptolemaic Bureaucracy from an Egyptian Point of View (J. H. Johnson); Some Perspectives on Byzantine Bureaucracy (W. E. Kaegi, Jr); The Role of Bureaucracy in the Provisioning of Cities: A Framework for Analysis of the Ancient Near East (R. C. Hunt).

The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization)

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. Contents: Foreword. Christopher Woods ~ Acknowledgments. Jean M. Evans ~ List of Contributors ~ Map of the Ancient Middle East~ ~ The Oriental Institute, Its Museum and Collections. Emily Teeter~ ~ Plan of the Oriental Institute Museum Galleries ~ ~ The Mesopotamian Collection ~ The Syro-Anatolian Collection ~ The Megiddo and Levant Collection ~ The Egyptian Collection The Nubian Collection The Persian Collection The Islamic Collection

100 Highlights of the Oriental Institute Museum (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

Jean M. Evans

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