Tuesday, March 29, 2011

News: Ancient Egyptian art unpacked at the Oriental Institute

Museum officials and scholars work together inspecting a limestone statue of the Egyptian King Khasekhem (ca 2685 B.C.) and an ancient Egyptian palette, or grindstone, bearing battlefield images from about 3100 B.C. at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago after it arrived on loan from Oxford University.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist: Three More Megiddo volumes


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    Wednesday, March 9, 2011

    Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist: Four Megiddo volumes


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      Thursday, March 3, 2011

      New Book: Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization.

      Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization.
      Edited by Emily Teeter
      Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33
      Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2011



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      This catalog for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography, and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis, and the Delta, were contributed by leading scholars in the field. The catalog features 129 Predynastic and Early Dynastic objects, most from the Oriental Institute's collection, that illustrate the environmental setting, Predynastic and Early Dynastic culture, religion, and the royal burials at Abydos. This volume will be a standard reference and a staple for classroom use.

      Table of Contents

      The Chronology of Early Egypt
      Introduction. Emily Teeter
      List of Contributors
      Map of Principal Areas and Sites

      1. Sequence Dating and Predynastic Chronology. Stan Hendrickx
      2. Petrie and the Discovery of Earliest Egypt. Patricia Spencer
      3. Political Organization of Egypt in the Predynastic Period. Branislav Andelkovic
      4. Hierakonpolis. Renée Friedman
      5. The Predynastic Cultures of the Nile Delta. Yann Tristant and Béatrix Midant-Reynes
      6. The Predynastic/Early Dynastic Period at Tell el-Farkha. Krzysztof M. Cialowicz
      7. Material Culture of the Predynastic Period. Alice Stevenson
      8. Iconography of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods. Stan Hendrickx
      9. Relations between Egypt and Nubia in the Naqada Period. Bruce B. Williams
      10. Crafts and Craft Specialization. Stan Hendrickx
      11. The Invention of Writing in Egypt. David Wengrow
      12. Early Interaction between Peoples of the Nile Valley and the Southern Levant. Eliot Braun
      13. The Rise of the Egyptian State. E. Christiana Köhler
      14. Tomb U-j: A Royal Burial of Dynasty 0 at Abydos. Günter Dreyer
      15. The First Kings of Egypt: The Abydos Evidence. Laurel Bestock
      16. The Narmer Palette: A New Interpretation. David O'Connor
      Catalog of Objects
      Concordance of Museum Registration Numbers
      Checklist of the Exhibit
      Bibliography


      • Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
      • Edited by Emily Teeter
      • Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33
      • Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2011
      • ISBN 978-1-885923-82-0
      • Pp. 288; 196 figures (most in color), 129 objects (all in color)
      • $39.95

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