Oriental Institute Makes Accessing Its Collections Even Easier
↵The Oriental Institute welcomes researchers to make use of our wide-ranging collection of ancient Near Eastern artifacts as well as our expansive photographic and document archives. In order to facilitate access to our collections, we have created a new section on our website entitled Access the Collections. From the landing page, you will find links to pages devoted to Museum Registration, Museum Archives, and the Tablet Collection and to photo requests and permissions to publish. Guidelines and fillable PDF request forms are available for all modes of access. We hope this new feature of our website, alongside our ever-growing Search Our Collections, will encourage the use of the Oriental Institute collections.
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Lecture by Susanne Paulus on "No Coins, No Silver but Gold(?) - How to Pay in Babylonian 1200 BC"
Dr. Susanne Paulus, Assistant Professor of Assyriology, will give a lecture about "No Coins, No Silver but Gold (?) - How to Pay in Babylonia 1200 BC" on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 3:30 PM in Classics 21 as part of the Ancient Societies Workshop.
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Neubauer Collegium Panel Discussion on Antiquities
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society will host a penal discussion with Fiona Greenland and Morag Kersel, co-curators of the current exhibit The Past Sold (running April 3 - May 13, 2017), on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM. The speakers will "present the contrasting episodes of artifact movement featured in the exhibition: the legal, state-sponsored sale of artifacts from the Early Bronze Age site of Bab adh Dhra’ (Jordan) during the late 1970s, and the illegal looting of archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq during the current and ongoing armed conflict in the region. Please see the panel discussion website for more information.
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Dimitri Laboury will give a lecture on "Painters and Painting in the Theban Necropolis during the 18th Dynasty"
Dimitri Laboury will give a lecture about "Painters and Painting in the Theban Necropolis during the 18th Dynasty" on April 25, 2017, from 5-7 PM in the LaSalle Banks room of the Oriental Institute.
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Eastern Mediterranean Seminar on "Papyri and History"
The Eastern Mediterranean Seminar will host the "Papyri and History" Seminar 3 on Friday and Saturday, Apirl 14--15, 2017, in Classics 21.
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Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre will give a lecture on "The End of Empire in Anatolia"
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, University of Colorado, will give a lecture about "The End of Empire in Anatolia: Sardis and Gordion in the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic Periods" on Thursday, April 13, 2017, at 12:00 PM in the LaSalle Banks room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by John Marston on "Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia"
John Marson will give a lecture about "Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia" on Monday, April 10, 2017, at 3:30 PM in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Matthew J. Adams on "Megiddo and Egypt in the Intermediate and Middle Bronze Ages"
Matthew J. Adams will give a lecture about "Megiddo and Egypt in the Intermediate and Middle Bronze Ages" on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at 12:00 PM in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Andrew R. George on "A New Fragment of Old Babylonian Gilgamesh"
Dr. Andrew R. George, Professor of Babylonian at the University of London, will give a lecture about "Enkidu between Wild and Town: A New Fragment of Old Babylonian Gilgamesh" at 4:00 PM on Thursday, April 6th, 2017, in the LaSalle Banks room of the Oriental Institute.
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Oriental Institute Collections Research Grant 2017-2018
We are pleased to announce that the Oriental Institute will once again be awarding grants to work with the museum collections as part of the Oriental Institute Collections Research Grant in 2017–2018, thanks to the generous support of Jim Sopranos. The deadline for applications is Friday, April 14th, 2017. Notifications will be sent to applicants in early June, with research visits taking place between July 2017 and June 2018. Please visit the webpage for additional information and share this update with friends and colleagues who might be interested:
https://oi.uchicago.edu/collections-research-grant
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