Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Oriental Institute books online

Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for forwarding the following list of books available online, in PDF format, at the Oriental Institute (some of the pages may take some time to load):

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

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
http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/OIP119.pdf
John C. Darnell

Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/SAOC51.pdf
Janet H. Johnson, editor

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

Scarabs, Scaraboids, Seals, and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu
http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/OIP118.pdf
Emily Teeter

The catalogue for the Oriental Institute's Online Publications can be found at:

1 comment:

Chuck Jones said...

And today there is yet another volume from the OI online:

Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes
Dorman, Peter F.; Bryan, Betsy M. [editors], with contributions by Mohammed el-Bialy, Martina Ullmann, Dimitri Laboury, Silke Grallert, Peter Brand, J. Brett McClain, Harold M. Hays and William Schenck, Catharine H. Roehrig, Boyo G. Ockinga, Heike Behlmer, and Kees van der Spek

http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/saoc61.pdf

"This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes"