(Partially) Open Access Monograph Series: Kelsey Museum Publications Series

[First posted in AWOL 22 August 2019, updated 14 December 2021]

Kelsey Museum Publications Series

The Kelsey Museum has produced a number of books and pamphlets about its collections, exhibitions, archaeological fieldwork, and conferences. Most are available for purchase by mail order from our distributor ISD. Many titles are also available as a free PDF download.

2021	City in the Desert, Revisited: Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, 1964–71 By Christiane J. Gruber and Michelle Al-Ferzley, with a foreword by Renata Holod	Purchase Download
2019	Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile and Beyond Edited by Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis, with contributions by Rebecca Benefiel, Ayman Damarany, Fawzi Hassan Bakhiet, Jeremy Pope, Alexandros Tsakos, Bruce Beyer Williams, and Bogdan Zurawski	Purchase Download
2017	Cosmogonic Tattoos By Jim Cogswell, with contributions by Gunalan Nadarajan, Terry Wilfong, Kathryn Huss, MaryAnn Wilkinson, Claire Zimmerman, Karl Daubman, Daniel Herwitz, and Raymond Silverman	Purchase
2017	The Countryside of Aphrodisias By Christopher Ratté and Angela Commito	Purchase
2016	Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii Edited by Elaine K. Gazda and John R. Clarke, with the assistance of Lynley J. McAlpine	Purchase
2015	Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum By Lauren E. Talalay and Margaret Cool Root	Purchase Download
2015	Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures By Christopher Ratté with Wendy Artin. Contributions by Katherine A. Larson	Purchase
2015	Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt By T. G. Wilfong	Purchase Download
2014	Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan By Christiane Gruber and Ashley Dimmig	Purchase Download
2014	Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt By T. G. Wilfong	Purchase Download
2013	Life, Death, and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt: The Coffin of Djehutymose in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology By T. G. Wilfong	Purchase Download
2012	Hours of Infinity: Recording the Imperfect Eternal By John Kannenberg, foreword by Marc Weidenbaum, introduction by T. G. Wilfong	Purchase Download
2011	Archaeology and the Cities of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity Edited by Ortwin Dally and Christopher Ratté	Purchase
2011	Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC-AD 700) Edited by Elaine K. Gazda and Diana Y. Ng, in collaboration with Ünal Demirer	Purchase
2006	In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum By Lauren E. Talalay and Susan E. Alcock	Purchase Download
2005	Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline Edited by J. F. Cherry, D. Margomenou, and L.E. Talalay	Purchase
2005	This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq Edited by Margaret Cool Root	Purchase
2004	Karanis, An Egyptian Town in Roman Times: Discoveries of the University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt (1924-1935) Edited by E.K. Gazda, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography by T.G. Wilfong	Purchase Download
2001	Textiles from Karanis, Egypt in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Artifacts of Everyday Life By Thelma K. Thomas	Purchase
2000	The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse Edited by Elaine Gazda
1997	Leroy Waterman and the University of Michigan Excavations at Sepphoris, 1931: The Scientific Test of the Spade By Elaine K. Gazda and Elise A. Friedland	Purchase
1997	Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity By Terry G. Wilfong	Purchase
1996	Images of Empire: Flavian Fragments in Rome and Ann Arbor Rejoined By Elaine K. Gazda and Anne E. Haeckl	Purchase
1995	Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology By Janet E. Richards and Terry G. Wilfong	Purchase Download
1990	Dangerous Archaeology: Francis Willey Kelsey and Armenia (1919-1920) By Thelma K. Thomas	Purchase
1990	The President's Choice: A History of the Ruthven Collection, the Collector, and the Donor (1931-1971) By Marti Lu Allen	Download
1984	The Art of Seals: Aesthetic and Social Dynamics of the Impressed Image from Antiquity to the Present By Margaret Cool Root	Download
1983	In Pursuit of Antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome and the Bay of Naples (1899-1914) Edited by Elaine K. Gazda	Purchase
1982	Wondrous Glass: Reflections on the World of Rome c.50 B.C. - A.D. 650 By Margaret Cool Root	Purchase
1982	A Scientist Views the Past: The Samuel A. Goudsmit Collection of Egyptian Antiquities By Margaret Cool Root	Download
1980	A Victorian View of Ancient Rome: The Parker Collection of Historical Photographs in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology By Judith Keller and Kenneth A. Breisch	Purchase
1979	Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits, and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology By Margaret Cool Root	Download
1978	Guardians of the Nile: Sculptures from Karanis in the Fayoum (c. 250 BC–AD 450) By Elaine K. Gazda with Carolyn Hessenbruch, Marti Lu Allen, and Valerie Hutchinson	Download
1976	Greek Vases from Boston c. 600-300 B.C. By Mary B. Comstock and Cornelius C. Vermeule	Download
1933	Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: United States of America, Fascicle 3. University of Michigan, Fascicle 1 By Wilhelmina van Ingen	Purchase View text online View plates online
1926	Excavations at Carthage 1925: A Preliminary Report by Francis W. Kelsey	Purchase

 

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