Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 3 Now Available
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces a new publication in print and online: Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535) by Oğuz Soysal and Başak Yıldız Gülşen, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 3. The volume is available for download and purchase. The monograph offers a large number of unpublished text fragments in photo and transliteration and gives succinct philological notes to these fragments. The fragments are part of a large collection that had been found during the early Turkish-German campaigns at the Hittite capital Hattusa before the Second World War.
Posted on July 12, 2019
Kipper Lecture by David Ilan on "How Ancient Israel Began"
David Ilan will give the David A. Kipper Ancient Israel Lecture about "How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective" on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, at 700–9:00 PM in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
Posted on May 28, 2019
New OI Publication Excavations in the Plain of Antioch III Now Available
The Oriental Institute Publications office announces the in print and online publication of Excavations in the Plain of Antioch III: Stratigraphy, Pottery, and Small Finds from Chatal Höyük in the Amuq Plain by Marina Pucci in the series Oriental Institute Publications 143.
Posted on May 7, 2019
Workshop on the Reception and Display of Ancient Near Eastern Art
The Art History Department of Northwestern University and the Oriental Institute have organized a workshop on "The Reception and Display of Ancient Near Eastern Art" to be held on Friday, May 17, 2019, at 9:00 AM–4:00 PM in Trienens Forum, Kresge Centennial Hall, on the campus of Northwestern University.
Posted on May 7, 2019
Lecture by Michele Massa on "Beyond Çatalhöyük"
Michele Massa will give a lecture about "Beyond Çatalhöyük: Socio-Environmental Dynamics in the Konya Plain, 10,000–500 BCE" on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, at 12:00 PM in the LaSalle Banks Room of the OI.
Posted on May 6, 2019
Lecture by Alexander Sollee on "Urban Structure of Sirkeli Höyük"
Alexander Sollee will give a lecture about "The Urban Structure of Sirkeli Höyük: New Perspectives on a Neo-Hittite Settlement in Cilicia" on Thursday, May 9, 2019, at 12:00 PM in the LaSalle Banks Room of the OI.
Posted on May 6, 2019
Conference Looks to Future of Landscape Studies
James Osborne, Yorke Rowan, Hervé Reculaeu, and the Oriental Institute's Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) have organized a conference on "Landscape Studies in the Near East: The Next 100 Years" on May 10–11, 2019, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Posted on May 6, 2019
Lecture by Karen Radner on "Assyrian Imperial Power and How to Oppose It"
Karen Radner will give a lecture about "Assyrian Imperial Power and How to Oppose It" on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at 7:00 PM in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
Posted on April 25, 2019
Lecture by Kathryn Morgan on "Middle Bronze Age Destruction at Zincirli"
Kathryn Morgan will give a lecture about "A Middle Bronze Age Destruction at Zincirli, Turkey: Recent Results of the Chicago-Tübingen Excavations" on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 2:00 PM in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
Posted on April 8, 2019
William Sumner Memorial Lecture by Melinda Zeder on "What Braidwood Got Right"
Melinda Zeder will give the William Sumner Memorial Lecture about "What Braidwood Got Right — Rehabilitating Iran and the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins" on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at 7:00–9:00 pm in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
Posted on April 1, 2019
