The Oriental Institute Electronic Publications Initiative

Starting in 2005, the Oriental Institute committed to digitizing all of its publications and making them available online, without charge. The minimum for each volume, old and new, current and forthcoming, will be a Portable Document Format (PDF) version following current resolution standards. New publications appear online at or near the time they appear in print. Older publications will be processed as time and funding permits. More than one hundred volumes are now online (April 9, 2008) [Updated April 30, 2008 with the addition of more volumes of the CAD and CHD; Updated September 16, 2008 with the addition of OIP 130; Updated December 23, 2008 with the addition of OIP 135; Updated January 27, 2009 with the addition of OIMP 29]



Assyriological Studies (AS) | List of volumes in print

• AS 27. Studies Presented to Robert D. Biggs, June 4, 2004 From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 2. Martha T. Roth, Walter Farber, Matthew W. Stolper and Paula von Bechtolsheim, eds. 2007.


• AS 22. Old Babylonian Letters from Tell Asmar. R. M. Whiting, Jr. 1987.


• AS 17. Cuneiform Texts from Nippur: The Eighth and Ninth Seasons. Giorgio Buccellati and Robert D. Biggs. 1969.


• AS 5. Historical Prism Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal I: Editions E, B1-5, D, and K. Arthur Carl Piepkorn. 1933.

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD) | List of volumes in print

• Volume 1:1, A:1. 1964.


• Volume 1:2, A:2. 1968.


• Volume 3, B. 1965.


• Volume 4, D. 1959.


• Volume 5, E. 1958.


• Volume 6, H [het]. 1956.


• Volume 7, I/J. 1960.


• Volume 8, K. 1971.


• Volume 9, L. 1973.


• Volume 10:1, M:1. 1977.


• Volume 10:2, M:2. 1977.


• Volume 11:1, N:1. 1980.


• Volume 11:2, N:2. 1980.


• Volume 12, P. 2005.


• Volume 13, Q. 1982.


• Volume 14, R. 1999.


• Volume 15, S. 1984.


• Volume 16, S [tsade]. 1962.


• Volume 17:1, S [shin]:1. 1989.


• Volume 17:2, S [shin]:2. 1992.


• Volume 17:3, S [shin]:3. 1992.


• Volume 18, T. 2006.


• Volume 19, T [Tet]. 2006.


• Volume 21, Z. 1961.

The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) [Born digital publication]

• | Prologue | 3 | c | Y | B | F | N | R | L | H | Ḫ | Q | K | G | T | D | Problematic Entries | Problematic Entries 2

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) | List of volumes in print

• L-N 1980-1989.


• P, fascicles 1-3 1997.


• S, fascicle 1 2002.


• S, fascicle 2 2005.


• See also The Electronic Chicago Hittite Dictionary (e-CHD). The P Volume, Theo van den Hout and Harry A. Hoffner, ed.

Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary (MAD)

• MAD 5. Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. I. J. Gelb., 1970.


• MAD 4. Sargonic Texts in the Louvre Museum. I. J. Gelb., 1970.


• MAD 3. Glossary of Old Akkadian. I. J. Gelb., 1957.


• MAD 2. Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar I. J. Gelb., 1952


• MAD 1. Sargonic Texts from the Diyala Region I. J. Gelb., 1952.

Oriental Institute Communications (OIC) | List of volumes in print

• OIC 29. Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum. George R. Hughes. 2005.


• OIC 23. Excavations at Nippur: Twelfth Season. McGuire Gibson, Judith A. Franke, Miguel Civil, Michael L. Bates, Joachim Boessneck, Karl W. Butzer and Ted A. Rathbun, and Elizabeth Frick Mallin. 1978.


• OIC 22. Excavations at Nippur: Eleventh Season. McG. Gibson, with appendices by M. Civil. J. H. Johnson, and S. A. Kaufman. 1976.


• OIC 21. The Treasury of Persepolis and Other Discoveries in the Homeland of the Achaemenians. Erich F. Schmidt. 1939.


• OIC 20. Progress of the Work of the Oriental Institute in Iraq, 1934/35: Fifth Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition. Henri Frankfort. 1936.


• OIC 19. Oriental Institute Discoveries in Iraq, 1933/34: Fourth Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition. Henri Frankfort, with a chapter by Thorkild Jacobsen. 1935.


• OIC 17. Iraq Excavations of the Oriental Institute 1932/33: Third Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition. Henri Frankfort. 1934.


• OIC 16. Tell Asmar, Khafaje and Khorsabad: Second Preliminary Report of the Iraq Expedition. Henri Frankfort. 1933.


• OIC 13. Tell Asmar and Khafaje: The First Season’s Work in Eshnunna 1930/31. Henri Frankfort, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Conrad Preusser. 1932.

Oriental Institute Museum Publications (OIMP) | List of volumes in print

• OIMP 29. The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt. Edited by Emily Teeter and Janet H. Johnson, 2009


• OIMP 28. Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past. Edited by Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson, 2008


• OIMP 27. European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos. Ian Manners. 2007.


• OIMP 26. Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy. Tanya Treptow.


• OIMP 25. Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing. Iman Saca. 2006


• OIMP 24. Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905-1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago. John A. Larson. 2006.

Oriental Institute Publications (OIP) | List of volumes in print

• OIP 135. Kerkenes Special Studies 1: Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial Complex at Kerkenes Dag, Turkey. Catherine M. Draycott and Geoffrey D. Summers, with contribution by Claude Brixhe and Turkish summary translated by G. Bike Yazıcıoğlu. 2008


• OIP 132. The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Volume 8. Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts. James P. Allen. 2006.


• OIP 131. The Amuq Valley Regional Projects, Volume 1 - Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002. Kutlu Aslihan Yener. 2005.


• OIP 130. Chogha Mish, Volume II. The Development of a Prehistoric Regional Center in Lowland Susiana, Southwestern Iran: Final Report on the Last Six Seasons of Excavations, 1972–1978. Abbas Alizadeh. 2008.


• OIP 129. The Early Dynastic To Akkadian Transistion: The Area WF Sounding At Nippur. Augusta McMahon. 2006.


• OIP 128. The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Southern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Bakun. Abbas Alizadeh. 2006


• OIP 127. Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations. Timothy P. Harrison, with contributions by Douglas L. Esse, Andrew Graham, Ronald G. V. Hancock, and Patricia Paice. 2004.


• OIP 126. Taxes, Taxpayers, And Tax Receipts In Early Ptolemaic Thebes - Demotic and Greek Ostraca from the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago. Brian P. Muhs. 2005.


• OIP 125. Excavations at Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria, Volume 2: Archaeology of the Bronze Age, Hellenistic, and Roman Remains at an Ancient Town on the Euphrates River. Thomas A. Holland. 2006.


• OIP 124. Excavations at Tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria, Volume 1: On the Margin of the Euphrates: Settlement and Land Use at Tell Es-Sweyhat and in the Upper Lake Assad Area, Syria. Tony J. Wilkinson. 2004.


• OIP 123. Temple of Khonsu, Volume 3. The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak: A Manifestation of Personal Piety. Helen Jacquet-Gordon. 2003.


• OIP 122. Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection. David B. Weisberg. 2003.


• OIP 121. Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, Volume 2: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Amar-Suena. Markus Hilgert. 2003.


• OIP 120. Excavations at the Prehistoric Mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran, Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996. Abbas Alizadeh. 2003.


• 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. 2002.


• OIP 118. Scarabs, Scaraboids, Seals, and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu. Emily Teeter. 2003.


• OIP 117. Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter. Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root, with seal inscription readings by Charles E. Jones. 2001.


• OIP 115. Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, Volume 1: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Shulgi. M. Hilgert. 1998


• OIP 114. Nippur, Volume 4: The Early Neo-Babylonian Governor's Archive from Nippur. S. W. Cole. 1996.


• OIP 111. Nippur, Volume 3: Kassite Buildings in Area WC-1. R. L. Zettler. 1993.


• OIP 105. Prehistoric Archeology Along the Zagros Flanks. L. S. Braidwood, et. al. 1983.


• OIP 104. Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus. I. J. Gelb, et. al. 1989, 1991.


• OIP 102. The Tomb of Kheruef: Theban Tomb 192. The Epigraphic Survey. 1980.


• OIP 101. Chogha Mish, Volume 1: The First Five Seasons, 1961-1971. Helene Kantor and P. Delougaz. 1996.


• OIP 99. Inscriptions from Tell Abu Salabikh. R. D. Biggs. 1974.


• OIP 98. Old Babylonian Public Buildings in the Diyala Region. Part One: Excavations at Ishchali, Part Two: Khafajah Mounds B, C, and D. H. D. Hill, et. al. 1990.


• OIP 97. Nippur, Volume 2. The North Temple and Sounding E: Excavations of the Joint Expedition to Nippur of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. D. E. McCown, et. al. 19


• OIP 92. Persepolis Fortification Tablets. R. T. Hallock. 1969.


• OIP 91. Aramaic Ritual Texts from Persepolis. R. A. Bowman. 1970.


• OIP 88. Private Houses and Graves in the Diyala Region. Pinhas Delougaz, Harold D. Hill, and Seton Lloyd. 1967


• OIP 79. Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah. C. W. McEwan, et. al. 1957.


• OIP 78. Nippur I, Temple of Enlil, Scribal Quarter, and Soundings: Excavations of the Joint Expedition to Nippur of the University Museum of Philadelphia and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Donald E. McCown and Richard C. Haines, assisted by Donald P. Hansen. 1967


• OIP 72. Stratified Cylinder Seals from the Diyala Region. Henri Frankfort with a chapter by Thorkild Jacobsen. 1955


• OIP 70. Persepolis III: The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments. E. F. Schmidt. 1970.


• OIP 69. Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries. Erich F. Schmidt with contributions by Sydney P. Noe et al., Frederick R. Matson, Lawrence J. Howell, and Louisa Bellinger. 1957


• OIP 68. Persepolis I: Structures, Reliefs, Inscriptions. Erich F. Schmidt with contribution by F. R. Matson. 1953.


• OIP 65. Persepolis Treasury Tablets. George G. Cameron. 1948.


• OIP 63. Pottery from the Diyala Region. Pinhas Delougaz. 1952.


• OIP 60. More Sculpture from the Diyala Region. Henri Frankfort. 1943.


• OIP 59. Tall-i-Bakun A: Season of 1932. Alexander Langsdorff and Donald E. McCown. 1942.


• OIP 58. Pre-Sargonid Temples in the Diyala Region. Pinhas Delougaz and Seton Lloyd with chapters by Henri Frankfort and Thorkild Jacobsen. 1942.


• OIP 53. The Temple Oval at Khafajah. Pinhas Delougaz, with a chapter by Thorkild Jacobsen. 1940.


• OIP 44. Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah. Henri Frankfort. 1939.


• OIP 43. The Gimilsin Temple and the Palace of the Rulers at Tell Asmar. Henri Frankfort, Seton Lloyd, and Thorkild Jacobsen, with a chapter by Günter Martiny. 1940.


• OIP 42. Megiddo 1. Seasons of 1925-34: Strata I-V. Robert S. Lamon and Geoffrey M. Shipton. 1939.


• OIP 40. Khorsabad, Part 2: The Citadel and the Town. Gordon Loud and Charles B. Altman. 1938.


• OIP 38. Khorsabad, Part 1: Excavations in the Palace and at a City Gate. Gordon Loud. 1936,


• OIP 24. Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan. Thorkild Jacobsen and Seton Lloyd. 1935.


• OIP 21. The Excavation of Medinet Habu, Volume 1: General Plans and Views. Uvo Hölscher. 1934.


• OIP 16. Cuneiform Series, Volume IV: Sumerian Texts of Varied Contents. Edward Chiera. 1934.


• OIP 15. Cuneiform Series, Volume III: Sumerian Epics and Myths. Edward Chiera. 1934.


• OIP 14. Cuneiform Series, Vol. II: Inscriptions from from Adab. Daniel David Luckenbill. 1930.


• OIP 11. Cuneiform Series, Volume I: Sumerian Lexical Texts from the Temple School of Nippur. Edward Chiera. 1929.

Oriental Institute Seminars (OIS) | List of volumes in print

• OIS 4. Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond.M Nicole Brisch, ed.


• OIS 3. Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Nicola Laneri, ed. 2007.


• OIS 2. Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures. Seth L. Sanders, ed. 2006, 2007.


• OIS 1. Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam: Archaeological Perspectives. Donald Whitcomb, ed. 2004.

Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) | List of volumes in print

• SAOC 62. Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18–22, 2005. 2008.


• SAOC 61. Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes. Peter F. Dorman and Betsy M. Bryan, ed. 2007.


• SAOC 60. Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg. Cynthia L. Miller, ed.


• SAOC 59. Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse. Samuel R. Wolff, ed. 2001.


• SAOC 51. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Janet Johnson. ed. 1992.


• SAOC 45. Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition). Janet H. Johnson. Third edition, 2000.


• SAOC 44. Nippur Neighborhoods. E. C. Stone. 1987.


• SAOC 38. The Demotic Verbal System. Janet H. Johnson. Second printing, with corrections, 2004.


• SAOC 31. Prehistoric Investigations in Iraqi Kurdistan. R. J. Braidwood and B. Howe. 1960.


• SAOC 20. Animal Remains from Tell Asmar. Max Hilzheimer. 1941.


• SAOC 5. A New Inscription of Xerxes from Persepolis. Ernst E. Herzfeld. 1932.

Miscellaneous Publications | List of volumes in print

• Uch Tepe II: Technical Reports. McG. Gibson, ed. 1990.


• Uch Tepe I: Tell Razuk, Tell Ahmed Al-Mughir, Tell Ajamat. McG. Gibson, ed. 1987.


• Persepolis and Ancient Iran. 1976.


• The 1905–1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and The Sudan. 1975.


• The Uruk Countryside: The Natural Setting of Urban Societies. Robert McC. Adams and Hans J. Nissen. 1972.


• Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran. Erich F. Schmidt. 1940.

Oriental Institute Annual Reports

• 1991-1992 Annual Report - 2002-2003 Annual Report.