Thursday, October 3, 2019

Oriental Institute Centennial Publication: Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100

Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100
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Theo van den Hout, ed.
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In celebration of the OI’s centennial year, over sixty different authors and contributors have come together to provide a personalized history of the OI’s work past and present. In these pages we invite you to join us on an adventure. Explore the legacy of James Henry Breasted and the institute he founded. Discover the inner workings of the OI and its museum. Travel across multiple continents to learn about groundbreaking research. Enjoy a unique collection of nearly six hundred images, all in one publication for the first time. Learn the story of the institute’s development—from being one man’s dream to becoming one of the world’s preeminent authorities on over ten thousand years of human civilization. 

Table of Contents

Foreword. John Rowe
Introduction. Christopher Woods
Note from the Editor. Theo van den Hout
Authors & Contributors
Map of the Ancient World
Timeline of the Ancient Middle East
BEGINNINGS
01. Seeking Permanence
Seeking Permanence: James Henry Breasted and His Oriental Institute. Jeffrey Abt
02. Architecture of the OI
Architecture of the OI. Susan J. van der Meulen
THE INSTITUTE
03. Museum
Introduction. Jean M. Evans
A History of the OI Museum. Emily Teeter
The Tablet Collection. Susanne Paulus
Keeping the Past Present: A Short History of the OI Museum Archives. Anne Flannery
Conservation: One Hundred Years of Change. Laura D’Alessandro
Registration. Raymond Tindel & Helen McDonald
04. Education
OI Volunteer Program. Terry Friedman, Sue Geshwender & Janet Helman
Youth and Family Programs. Calgary Haines-Trautman
05. Research Archives
A Kind of Paradise: The Research Archives of the OI. Foy Scalf
CAMEL. Anthony Lauricella
06. Publications
Makin’ Books: OI Publications. Charissa Johnson
AREAS OF RESEARCH
07. Egypt
Egypt: Where the OI Began. Brian P. Muhs
The Epigraphic Survey, 1924–2019. W. Raymond Johnson & J. Brett McClain
Chicago House: Technological Innovations in Epigraphic Recording. W. Raymond Johnson & J. Brett McClain
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary. Janet H. Johnson & Brian P. Muhs
The Coffin Texts Project. Robert K. Ritner
The “Ancient Egyptian Paintings” Project. Robert K. Ritner
the Mummy Label Database (MLD). François Gaudard, Raquel Martín Hernández & Sofía Torallas Tovar
Tell Edfu. Nadine Moeller & Gregory Marouard
08. Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Archaeology at the OI. McGuire Gibson, Karen Wilson & Jean M. Evans
Assyriology and the Assyrian Dictionary. Martha T. Roth
09. Iran
The Past and Present of the OI’s Work in Iran. Abbas Alizadeh & Matthew W. Stolper
10. Afghanistan
OI Cultural Heritage Preservation Projects in Afghanistan. Gil Stein
11. Anatolia
Hittite and Anatolian Studies at the OI. Richard Beal
12. Levant
Northwest Semitics in the OI: Recollections of the Last Half Century. Dennis Pardee
The OI’S Expedition to Megiddo, 1925–39. Eric H. Cline
13. Nubia
The OI and Nubia. Bruce B. Williams & Lisa Heidorn
14. Islamic
OI Projects from the Islamic Period: Texts and Archaeology. Tasha Vorderstrasse
APPENDICES
Directors of the OI
Curators of the Museum
Advisory Council and Breasted Medallion Awardees
A Few Faces of the OI
OI Founding Documents
University of Chicago Campus Map
  • Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100
  • Edited by Theo van den Hout
  • Oriental Institute Miscellaneous Publications
  • Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019 
  • ISBN: 978-1-61491-049-7
  • pp. xxiv + 428; 584 images (most color)
  • Hardback, 11.5” x 10”
  • $133.95
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

MORTEXVAR: Earlier Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts Variability

MORTEXVAR: Earlier Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts Variability
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MORTEXVAR looks into the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid and Coffin Texts (c 2350-1550 BC), and other related materials, for changes in the language, spellings, texts, beliefs, material culture, social data, and historical context.
The interdisciplinary (philology, linguistics, graphemics and cultural studies) 4-year project (July 2019 – June 2023) The Earlier Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Texts Variability (MORTEXVAR) proposes a nuanced appraisal of the construction and function of the mortuary texts from Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt (2350-1550 BC) using ‛variability’ as an explanatory concept and an electronic-geared corpus-driven approach. It focuses on central cultural issues concerning the ritual context, archaeological trace, ideological interpretation, socio-cultural function and philological text-forming and transmission of the texts devoted to ensuring a post-mortem activity for the deceased from ancient Egyptian elite.
Research questions concentrate on two main axes:
  • How were earlier ancient Egyptian mortuary texts shaped out the way they are? Was there a core of texts from one focus or multiple foci that implemented modifications and/or innovations depending on the cultural changes through time and space?
  • How can this materialize in the texts and their material context? How can we properly value the weight of tradition and innovation in the process of creating and transmitting these texts?
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Newly Open Access Journal: Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies
ISSN: 1574-1753
The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a myriad of different topics related to the study of ceramics, ranging from ethno-archaeology and experimental archaeology to high-tech archaeometric analyses.

In collaboration with the Faculty of Archaeology, all volumes in this journal are now made available in digital format at Sidestone Press.

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 26

Edited by Abraham van As | 2010

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 25

Edited by Abraham van As | 2009

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 24

Edited by Abraham van As | 2008

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 23

Edited by Abraham van As | 2007

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 22

Edited by Abraham van As | 2006

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 21

Edited by Abraham van As | 2005

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies vol. 20

Edited by Abraham van As | 2004

The Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies was published by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The first volume was published in 1983. The series ran for 26 years until its last volume was issued in 2010. The journal contains a...

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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Edizione Digitale di FGrHist 104 [Aristodemo]

Edizione Digitale di FGrHist 104 [Aristodemo]
First lines of the so called Aristodemus 
FGrHist 104 si può descrivere come un manuale di Storia Greca, interessato, ma non completamente focalizzato, come nessuna biografia, alle vite e alle gesta di personaggi illustri e di coloro che vissero e interagirono con essi, alla sequenza degli eventi e ai dati, alle informazioni di riferimento: numeri, luoghi, distanze, vincitori. Solo in determinate circostanze il testo affronta questioni eziologiche e solo dove la tradizione ha visto cristallizzarsi un'argomentazione a riguardo, come per le cause della guerra del Peloponneso. Tuttavia, conserva ancora una buona parte di quel dubbio, o meglio di quella ambiguità, che fa di Plutarco un biografo e uno storico e si lascia riportare, per alcuni elementi, fino ad un periodo in cui storia e biografia non erano ancora nettamente distinti come generi.14 Ricordi, stimoli, distrazioni, memorie, immagini costruiscono l'informazione prima che sia riprodotta, anche se questa modifica avviene secondo convenzione e il momento della tradizione che più agisce su questo tipo di contenuto è quello che passa tra l'orecchio e la mano, lo stesso per cui le fonti di Erodoto non sono soltanto orali e non sono tutte letture quelle che si trovano in Plutarco...
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Palestine Open Maps


Palestine Open Maps

Launch the map viewer
Palestine Open Maps is a platform that seeks to combine emerging technologies for mapping and immersive storytelling to:
  • Open-source and make searchable, for the first time, a uniquely detailed set of historic maps from the period of the British Mandate of Palestine;
  • Curate layered visual stories that bring to life absent and hidden geographies, in collaboration with data journalists, academic researchers, and civil society groups.
This alpha version of the platform allows users to navigate and search the historic map sheets, and to view basic data about present and erased localities.


 
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Coptic Scriptorium News: Fall 2019 Corpora Release 3.0.0

Coptic Scriptorium News: Fall 2019 Corpora Release 3.0.0
September 30, 2019 /
Coptic Scriptorium is happy to announce our latest data release, including a variety of new sources thanks to our collaborators (digitized data courtesy of the Marcion and PAThs projects!). New in this release are:
  • Saints’ lives
    • Life of Cyrus
    • Life of Onnophrius
    • Lives of Longinus and Lucius
    • Martyrdom of Victor the General (part 2)
  •  Miscellaneous:
    • Dormition of John
    • Homilies of Proclus
    • Letter of Pseudo-Ephrem
We are also releasing expansions to some of our existing corpora, including:
  • Canons of Johannes (new material annotated by Elizabeth Platte and Caroline T. Schroeder, digital edition provided by Diliana Atanassova)
  • Some Kinds of People Sift Dirt
  • Apophthegmata Patrum
  • A large number of corrections to most of our existing corpora, which are being republished in this release.
All documents have metadata for word segmentation, tagging, and parsing to indicate whether those annotations are machine annotations only (automatic), checked for accuracy by an expert in Coptic (checked), or closely reviewed for accuracy, usually as a result of manual parsing (gold).
You can search all corpora using ANNIS and download the data in 4 formats (relANNIS database files, PAULA XML files, TEI XML files, and SGML files in Tree-tagger format): browse on GitHub. If you just want to read works, cite project data or browse metadata, you can use our updated repository browser, the Canonical Text Services browser and URN resolver:
http://data.copticscriptorium.org/
Our total annotated corpora are now at over 850,000 words; corpora that have human editors who reviewed the machine annotations are now over 150,000!
We would like to thank Marcion, PAThs and the National Endowment for the Humanities for supporting us – we hope this release will be useful and are already working on more!
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Heinrich Schliemann Diaries

Heinrich Schliemann Diaries





The women are more beautiful than any I have ever seen

Heinrich Schliemann’s travels through Spain in 1859


Edited by Wout Arentzen & Maaike van Asch | 2019

In the fourth part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann, the famous 19th century trader, traveller and archaeologist, on his travels through Spain...




Schliemann and the California Gold Rush

The 1850-1852 American travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann: a transcription and translation


Christo Thanos & Wout Arentzen | 2014

In this second part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann (the famous 19th century archaeologist, trader and traveller) through his diary on his...




Without having seen the Queen

The 1846 European travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann: a transcription and annotated translation


Christo Thanos & Wout Arentzen | 2012

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), a shrewd trader and later in life one of the best known archaeologists of the 19th century, made many travels around the...




Schliemann en Nederland

Een leven vol verhalen


Wout Arentzen | 2012

De beroemde archeoloog, zakenman en reiziger Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) legde de basis voor zijn fortuin in Nederland. Dit boek beschrijft zijn leven daarom vanuit een...
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