December 16, 2002
JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive, has the JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (JNES) Vols. 1-55, 1942-1996, available for searching on their website. Also available are its predecessors, Hebraica , Vols. 1-11, 1884-1895; and The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , Vols. 12-58, 1895-1941.
November 13, 2002
As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces one additional letter for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson: B. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
September 26, 2002
Since the beginning of 2002 we have added some eleven thousand records to the on-line catalogue of the Oriental Institute Research Archives. We now have about 118,000 records in the on-line database.
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September 23, 2002
As part of its ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS ON-LINE, the Oriental Institute Publications Office announces an additional letter, Aleph, for the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, edited by Janet H. Johnson. This document is available as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
September 16, 2002
Information regarding the development of the Online Edition of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary is now available.
September 16, 2002
The Epigraphic Survey has made available additional Chicago House Bulletins: Bulletin X, No. 1 (September 15, 1999); Bulletin XI, No. 1 (October 1999 - April 2000); and Bulletin XII, No. 1 (October 2000 - April 2001).
September 9, 2002
The Museum Education Department of the Oriental Institute is pleased to announce the launch of its new online Teacher Resource Center. Funded by a grant from the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, the Teacher Resource Center includes teacher-developed lesson plans, in-depth descriptions and large images of key artifacts from our ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian collections, and an interactive area for children called "Kids' Corner."
August 30, 2002
The Epigraphic Survey homepage has been updated with information and photographs from their 2001-2002 season in Luxor, Egypt.
August 1, 2002
Norman Golb's article, The De Rossi Collection Of Hebrew Manuscripts At The Biblioteca Palatina And Its Importance For Jewish History, is now available. This document is in the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).
June 20, 2002
Six new/old articles are now available electronically from various Oriental Institute Research Project's:
- Donald S. Whitcomb 2001 Article: Letter From The Field: In Search Of Lost Mar'ash
- Donald S. Whitcomb 1999 Article: Discovering A New City In Syria: Hadir Qinnasrin 1998
- T. J. Wilkinson 1997 Article: Oriental Institute Dhamar Project - Notes On The 1996 Field Season
- Michael O. Wise 1993 Article: Methods Of Investigation Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And The Khirbet Qumran Site - A Conference Report
- Thomas A. Holland 1992 Article: Excavations At Tell Es-Sweyhat In Syria 1989 And 1991
- McGuire Gibson 1990 Article: Nippur, 1990: Gula, Goddess Of Healing, And An Akkadian Tomb
June 19, 2002
Seven new/old articles are now available electronically from various Oriental Institute Research Project's:
- W. Raymond Johnson 2000 Article: The Epigraphic Survey In Luxor: The First Seventy-Five Years
- Clemens Reichel 1998 Article: Clay Sealings And Tablets From Tell Asmar: An Ancient Mesopotamian Palace Reinvestigated
- W. Raymond Johnson 1996 Article: The Revolutionary Role Of The Sun In The Reliefs And Statuary Of Amenhotep III
- K. Aslihan Yener 1994 Article: Managing Metals: An Early Bronze Age Tin Production Site At Göltepe, Turkey
- Carol Meyer 1993 Article: Bir Umm Fawakhir: 1993 Survey Project
- Terry G. Wilfong 1992 Article: Two Weeks In The Egyptian Desert: The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project, January 1992
- Matthew W. Stolper 1991 Article: The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary At Seventy
June 18, 2002
Six new/old articles are now available electronically from various Oriental Institute Research Project's:
- K. Aslihan Yener 2001Article: Alalahk: A Late Bronze Age Capital In The Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey
- Matthew W. Stolper 1998 Article: Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions From Persepolis In Electronic Form
- Donald Whitcomb 1994 Article: Water And Recent Excavations At Aqaba
- John Meloy 1990 Article: Reconnaissance In Aqaba
- Donald Whitcomb 1990 Article: Water And Gold: The 1989 Season At Aqaba
- James J. Richerson 1990 Article: Aqaba/Ayla: Excavating For The Future
June 17, 2002
Six new/old articles are now available electronically from the Oriental Institute Museum and Oriental Institute Museum Volunteers Programs Home Pages:
- Eleanor Barbanes 2001 Article: Notes From The Scaffold - Museum Reinstallation
- Emily Teeter 1999 Article: The New Egyptian Gallery - First Gallery Reopens At Oriental Institute Museum
- Emily Teeter 1994 Article: More Medinet Habu Documents Recovered
- Peggy Horton Grant 1994 Article: Iranian Pottery In The Oriental Institute
- Emily Teeter 1994 Article: Medinet Habu Documents Recovered
- Dr. Louis T. Kircos and Emily Teeter 1991 Article: Studying The Mummy Of Petosiris - A Preliminary Report
June 12, 2002
The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of OIP 119. Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hôl Rock Inscriptions 1-45. J. C. Darnell, with the assistance of D. Darnell and contributions by D. Darnell, R. Friedman, and S. Hendrickx.
Titles In Preparation and Forthcoming Titles has also been updated.
June 6, 2002
Eleven new/old articles are now available electronically from our Individual Scholarship and Membership Office Home Pages:
- Dennis Pardee 2002 article: Ugarit Ritual Texts
- Robert Ritner 2001 article: Cleopatra In Chicago
- Peter Dorman 2001 article: Hatshepsut - Wicked Stepmother Or Joan Of Arc?
- David Schloen 1999 article: Networking The Past - Archaeological Data Models And Electronic Publication On The World-Wide Web
- Robert Braidwood 1998 article: Letters From The Field, 1950-1951 - Excavations At Jarmo
- Abbas Alizadeh 1997 article: Excavations At Chogha Bonut - The Earliest Village In Susiana, Iran
- Membership Office 1997 article: Institute On The Internet
- James Henry Breasted 1994 article: Expedition To Egypt, 1919: Excerpts From The Letters Of James Henry Breasted
- Billie Jean Collins 1992 article: The Puppy In Hittite Ritual
- Thorkild Jacobsen 1992 article: Crusading To The Past
- Miguel Civil 1991 article: Modern Brewers Recreate Ancient Beer
May 2, 2002
The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of Chicago Hittite Dictionary: S, fascicle 1 (sa- to saptamenzu), Hans G. Güterbock, Harry A. Hoffner, and Theo P. J. van den Hout.
April 8, 2002
On March 29th, the September-October 2001 Research Archives Acquisitions list was distributed to the 431 addresses subscribed to RABooks - the list which we rebuilt in February.
This document is also available on the web at:
http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/RABooks.2001.9-10.html
Information on RABooks is available at the University's listhost Web site at:
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/rabooks
as well as at the Oriental Institute Web site at:
http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/RABooks.html
where each of the Acquisitions Lists we have broadcast are archived.
March 18, 2002
993 Archaeological Site Photographs from Mesopotamia (414 photos) and Egypt (579 photos), shot between 1973-1990 by John and Peggy Sanders are now available.
February 22, 2002
The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the availability of its Print Publications Catalog - February 2002 in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
February 8, 2002
The 2000-2001 Oriental Institute Annual Report is now available. Links to its respective entires have been added to homepages of numerous Institute archaeological and philogical projects and departments.
February 6, 2002
The Oriental Institute Publications Office announces the publication of OIP 117. Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter. Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root.