The volume under review deals with the aims, methods, preliminary results and problems of three campaigns in Iraqi Kurdistan (1948, 1950-51, 1954-55). It does not offer a final excavation or exploration report, since some of the materials have not yet been studied in detail; but it contains a valuable series of essays about special aspects of the project which was undertaken as a first major attempt to identify the earliest village-materials and their immediate predecessors. The archaeological and general chapters to the book are the work of R. J. Braidwood and Bruce Howe. They explain the scene and progress of the field-work; they give a survey of the sites excavated and the materials collected (chapters I-V). The middle part of the book consists of contributions by the scientists who took an essential part in the field research: F. R. Matson writes on ceramic analysis and carbon 14 dating; H. E. Wright Jr. on climate and prehistoric man in the Eastern Mediterranean (a comparative study concerned with the entire Levant); H. Helbaek on the palaeo-ethnobotany of the Near East and Europe (an excellent chapter, most informative for the archaeologist in search of specific statements and analyses of early "agricultural" materials); and Charles A. Reed on animal domestication in the prehistoric Near East (again very instructive, often with an element of reproach directed to field archaeologists who neglected to recognize or salvage zoological evidence in their excavations). The concluding chapters review the results in a more general setting so far as they can be defined in chronological, "environmental" and general cultural terms and periods. \[From a review by Machteld J. Mellink in the American Journal of Archaeology 65 (1961) 195-96\].

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This volume is a collection of essays presented to George R. Hughes, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The articles deal with the art, history, language, literature, and religion of ancient Egypt, concentrating especially on the later periods of Egyptian civilization, which were Professor Hughes' special interest. The Funerary Texts of King Wahkare Akhtoy on a Middle Kingdom Coffin ( J. P. Allen ); Two Monuments of the First Intermediate Period from the Theban Nome ( E. Brovarski ); Shesmu the Letopolite ( M. Ciccarello ); The Oriental Institute Decorated Censer from Nubia ( C. E. DeVries ); Shipwrecked Sailor, Lines 184-85 ( M. Gilula ); The Royal Scribe Amenmose, Son of Penzerti and His Monuments in Egypt and Abroad ( L. Habachi ); The Dialect of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden ( J. H. Johnson ); The Shortest Book of Amduat? ( L. H. Lesko ); The Naucratis Stela Once Again ( M. Lichtheim ); Papyrus Harkness ( T. J. Logan ); On the Accession Date of Akhenaten ( W. J. Murnane ); Ramesseum Sources of Medinet Habu Reliefs ( C. F. Nims ); The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties ( R. A. Parker ); Of Myth and Santorin ( R. L. Scranton ); Pashed, the Servant of A Stelophorous Figure in the Oriental Institute Museum ( D. P. Silverman ); Cairo Ostracon J. 72460 ( E. Thomas ); A Chronology of the New Kingdom ( E. F. Wente and C. C. Van Siclen III ); Some Fragmentary Demotic Wisdom Texts ( R. J. Williams ); Mrs. Andrews and the 'Tomb of Queen Tiyi' ( J. A. Wilson ); Bibliography of George R. Hughes ( J. Eckenfels ).

One of the only books published specifically on ancient egyptian coregencies.

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.

This monograph presents plaster, stone, ceramic, flint and bone remains from one of the largest pre-classical Tells in Syria. An appendix details the Neolithic plant remains.

This study of two domestic neighbourhoods at Nippur, TA and TB, correlates information from texts found in these houses with architectural modifications to the buildings, and considers the socio-economic circumstances of the occupants. The chapters following Stone's reconstructions of the houses include descriptions of the artifacts and general conclusions. Then follow lengthy appendices of object catalogues, text copies and lists of personal names found in the texts, and plates of architectural plans.

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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. \[From a review by Benjamin R. Foster in American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989) 292-93\]. 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 The Core and the Periphery (P. Steinkeller); Ur III Quantitative Aspects (M. Civil); Charisma and On Continuity and Change in Early Mesopotamian Bureaucratic Systems (P. Michalowski); Legitimation of Authority Through Image and 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 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 A Framework for Analysis of the Ancient Near East (R. C. Hunt).

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.

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This volume contains an edition of P. Brooklyn 47.218.135, a papyrus dated to the fifth or fourth century b.c. in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Despite the relatively poor state of preservation, the papyrus contains a wisdom text of considerable interest, as it is one of the few literary works written in the hieratic script known from the Late period. It displays similarities with both the earlier pharaonic and the later Demotic compositions. Classicists and biblical scholars will certainly also wish to consider possible connections with Hellenistic and biblical wisdom traditions. The volume contains a hieroglyphic transcription, consecutive translation, philological commentary, glossary, bibliography, plates, and a discussion by the author of the script, grammar, content, and significance of the text.

To date, no comprehensive treatment of Egyptian magic has focused on the practice of the magician. Both general studies and textual publications have emphasized instead the religious elements in the contents of recited spells, while the accompanying instructions, with their vignettes and lists of materials, instruments, and ritual actions, remained uninvestigated. This study represents the first critical examination of such "magical techniques," revealing their widespread appearance and pivotal significance for all Egyptian "religious" practices from the earliest periods through the Coptic era, influencing as well the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri. The author also discusses the "pagan-Egyptian" influence on Old and New Testament practices and in the lives of the Coptic Desert Fathers. The third edition is a reprinting of the second, which included minor corrections from the original edition. This volume is a significant revisionist approach to ancient Egyptian magic. As a result of a methodical analysis of both the textual and archaeological records, Ritner concludes that the boundaries between ancient Egyptian magic, religion, and medicine were not as strictly observed as modern commentators believe. Furthermore, he categorically denies the frequent attempts of moderns to define ancient Egyptian magic as a phenomenon dealing with the supernatural, practiced primarily for nefarious purposes sub rosa by strictly observed as modern commentators believe. Furthermore, he categorically denies the frequent attempts of moderns to define ancient Egyptian magic as a phenomenon dealing with the supernatural, practiced primarily for nefarious purposes sub rosa by individuals outside of the religious mainstream. Ritner's engaging prose style and felicitous exegesis of even the most arcane material make for easy reading. But more important still, the content of the work ensures that it will become a vital reference tool for all engaged in any aspect of ancient Egyptian religion. [From a review by R. S. Bianchi in Journal of the American Oriental Society 114 (1994) 513-14].

This volume was dedicated to the memory of Klaus Baer, Professor in the Oriental Institute for over twenty years. The contributors are colleagues and/or students of Professor Baer, and their articles reflect Professor Baer's contributions to a variety of fields. Contents: Pronominal Rhematization ( J. P. Allen ); Abydos in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, Part II ( E. Brovarski ); A Model for the Political Structure of Ancient Egypt ( E. Cruz-Uribe ); The Giza Mastaba Niche and Full Frontal Figure of Redi-nes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ( P. Der Manuelian ); Ankhtifi and the Description of His Tomb at Mo'alla ( E. Doret ); Oriental Institute Ostracon 25346 (Ostracon Wilson 100) ( J. L. Foster ); The Hieratic Wooden Tablet Varille ( R. Jasnow ); 'Annuity Contracts' and Marriage ( J. H. Johnson ); Honorific Figures of Amenhotep III in the Luxor Temple Colonnade Hall ( W. R. Johnson ); Speculations Concerning Interconnections Between the Royal Policy and Reputation of Ramesses IV ( C. A. Keller ); Joseph Smith and Egyptology: An Early Episode in the History of American Speculation About Ancient Egypt, 1835-1844 ( J. A. Larson ); Some Remarks on the "Books of the Dead" Composed for the High Priests Pinedjem I and II ( L. H. Lesko ); Too Many High Priests? Once Again the Ptahmoses of Ancient Memphis ( W. J. Murnane ); The Gaming Episode in the "Tale of Setne Khamwas" as Religious Metaphor ( P. A. Piccione ); Denderite Temple Hierarchy and the Family of Theban High Priest Nebwenenef: Block Statue OIM 10729 ( R. K. Ritner ); The Practical Economics of Tomb-Building in the Old Kingdom: A Visit to the Necropolis in a Carrying Chair ( A. M. Roth ); The First Dynasty Egyptian Presence at 'En Besor in the Sinai ( A. R. Schulman ); The Title WR BZT in the Tomb Chapel of K..(J)-PW-R' ( D. P. Silverman ); Bronze Votive Offering Tables ( E. Teeter ); A Stela from Toulouse Re-examined ( C. C. Van Siclen III ); Security and the Problem of the City in the Naqada Period ( B. B. Williams ); The Egyptological Papers of Klaus Baer in the Oriental Institute Museum Archives ( T. G. Wilfong ).

In Egypt of the 1st century AD an alternative was introduced to the traditional use of painted masks of papier-mache on wrapped and decorated mummies. A new technique, borrowed from the Hellenic tradition of painting in encaustic (coloured wax) or water colour on wooden panels or linen sheets, involved the production of realistic images of the faces of men, women and children. These idealized paintings were placed over the face of the wrapped mummy. The combination of an impressionistically rendered face and a wrapped mummiform body has been interpreted as a synthesis of two contrasting contemporary cultures - Hellenic and native Egyptian. However Corcoran's analysis of the iconography of these mummies reveals that their decoration reflects the continuity of a cultural alignment that was fundamentally Egyptian. Her study documents a vital and articulate pagan tradition that survived in Egypt until the triumph of Christianity in the fourth century AD. Written from the perspective of an academic Egyptologist, this analysis of an important corpus of objects includes an illustrated catalogue of 23 mummy coverings with \`portrait faces' from the collections of museums in Egypt. Both as an original work on quite inaccessible material and as an important scholarly study of a class of artefact usually treated more \`glossily' this will be an important book for egyptologists, classicists, art historians and historians of religion.

This work studies the relationship between the king and Maat, the personification of "truth," as documented in reliefs of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period. It includes a detailed study of the chronology, iconography, and theology of the ritual of offering Maat and the royal name equated with Maat. Central to the volume is an investigation of the construction of, and variations in, the offering formulas and what modifications in those texts reflect about the status of the king and about the relevance of Maat to ethics in the Ramesside period.

The studies in this impressive volume of over 700 pages are presented in memory of Douglas L. Esse, an archaeologist and assistant professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago until his untimely death at the age of forty-two on October 13, 1992. The majority of the thirty-four chapters in this volume are concerned with the study of the Early Bronze Age, and some chapters deal with periods and issues that pre-date and post-date the Early Bronze Age, as all of the forty-six authors selected to contribute to this volume were either colleagues or students of Esse and some were not primarily Early Bronze Age specialists. Chapter One includes three "Tributes" to Esse by L. E. Stager, A. Ben-Tor, and D. Saltz that assess the impact of Esse's scholarship, excellence in fieldwork, and the friendship he showed to all of those with whom he worked. Many of the chapters are concerned with ceramic studies from various historical periods, while other chapters deal with burial customs, cult, chronology, social organization, cylinder seal impressions, faunal studies, metrology, architecture, radiocarbon determinations, and maritime trade. The Israelite sites that figure prominently in these studies include Tel Maahaz, Tel Dor, Megiddo, Arad, Ai, Tel Yaqush, Nahal Tillah, Beit Yerah, Illin Tahtit, and Ashkelon. The geographical areas that are investigated include the Soreq Basin, the Akko Plain, the Jezreel Valley, the Dead Sea Plain, and the Carmel Coast and Ramat Menashe regions in Israel and Jordan; external studies are concerned with material from Egypt, the site of Alishar Höyuek in Turkey, Tell el-Umeiri in Jordan as well as with pottery connections in Arabia. One chapter is concerned with the latest historical periods, which discusses the Persian and Muslim conquests in Palestinian archaeology.

This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes.

Selection of papers and posters presented at the 51st meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale - International Congress of Assyriology & Near Eastern Archaeology, organized by Martha T. Roth, Jennie Myers, Walter Farber in 2005.

Originally coined to signify a style of pottery in southern Iraq, and by extension an associated people and a chronological period, the term "Ubaid" is now often used loosely to denote a vast Near Eastern interaction zone, characterized by similarities in material culture, particularly ceramic styles, which existed during the sixth and fifth millennia B.C. This zone extended over 2,000 km from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Hormuz, including parts of Anatolia and perhaps even the Caucasus. The volume contains twenty-three papers that explore what the "Ubaid" is, how it is identified, and how the Ubaid in one location compares to another in a distant location. The papers are the result of "The Ubaid Expansion? Cultural Meaning, Identity and the Lead-up to Urbanism," an International Workshop held at Grey College, University of Durham, 20-22 April 2006. Table of Contents PART 1: THEORETICAL 1\. DECONSTRUCTING THE UBAID. Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip 2\. LOCAL IDENTITIES AND INTERACTION MODELING REGIONAL VARIATION IN THE UBAID HORIZON. Gil J. Stein 3\. MORE THOUGHTS ON THE UBAID PERIOD. Joan Oates 4\. THE HALAF-UBAID A TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT A CENTER? Philip Karsgaard 5\. QUESTIONING THE HALAF-UBAID TRANSITION. Stuart Campbell and Alexandra Fletcher 6\. THE DEAD HAND OF DEIMEL. McGuire Gibson PART 2: IDENTITY AND MATERIAL 7\. PRACTICES OF DAILY LIFE IN FIFTH-MILLENNIUM B.C. IRAN AND MESOPOTAMIA. Susan Pollock 8\. FIGURING OUT THE BODY AND IDENTITY IN THE UBAID. Karina Croucher 9\. UBAID NEGOTIATIONS OF IDENTITY THROUGH PHYSICAL APPEARANCE? Kirsi O. Lorentz 10\. A SNAKE IN THE REASSESSING THE EVER-INTRIGUING OPHIDIAN FIGURINES. Aurelie Daems 11\. THE TERM “HAJJI MUHAMMAD”: A RE-EVALUATION. Harriet Crawford 12\. THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOOL EXPLOITATION IN UBAID-PERIOD SETTLEMENTS OF NORTH MESOPOTAMIA. Hiroshi Sudo 13\. UBAID LITHICS THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF UBAID SOCIETY. Elizabeth Healey 14\. BUTTRESS-RECESS ARCHITECTURE AND STATUS SYMBOLISM IN THE UBAID PERIOD. Uwe Sievertsen PART 3: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 15. A MONUMENTAL THE COLLAPSE OF SUSA. Frank Hole 16\. UBAID-RELATED-RELATED? THE “BLACK-ON-BUFF” CERAMIC TRADITIONS OF HIGHLAND SOUTHWEST IRAN. Lloyd Weeks, Cameron A. Petrie, and Daniel T. Potts 17\. BAKUN-PERIOD SITES IN DARRE-YE BOLA-GHI, FARS. Barbara Helwing and Mojgan Seyedin 18\. THE EMERGENCE OF UBAID STYLES AT TELL A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE. Rana Özbal 19\. AN ASPECT OF THE UBAID INTRUSION IN THE SYRIAN UPPER EUPHRATES VALLEY. Yayoi Yamazaki 20\. THE UBAID IN THE BALIKH VALLEY, NORTHERN BALIKH PERIODS IV–V. Maria Giuseppina Trentin 21\. NETWORKS OF INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION DURING MESOPOTAMIA’S UBAID PERIOD. Bradley J. Parker 22\. EXPLORING SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE UBAID A CASE STUDY OF DE?IRMENTEPE IN EASTERN TURKEY. Bekir Gurdil 23\. GODEDZOR, A LATE UBAID-RELATED SETTLEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS. Christine Chataigner, Pavel Avetisyan, Giulio Palumbi, and Hans-Peter Uerpmann