scholarly journals FRESCO PHOTOGRAMMETRY: DOCUMENTING THE IMPERIAL CULT CHAMBER AT LUXOR TEMPLE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Murray
Keyword(s):  
Imperial Cult ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Late Roman

This paper discusses the photogrammetric and epigraphic documentation of the late-Roman frescoes in the Imperial Cult Chamber at Luxor Temple by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, Epigraphic Survey Project. It presents a brief history of the room and overview of research related to it, while relaying the epigraphic documentation technique and methodology employed, and the use of photogrammetry to achieve those objectives.

Imperialism and Racial Geography in James Henry Breasted’s Ancient Times, a History of the Early World

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 12-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay J. Ambridge
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Contextualization ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The University

Abstract James Henry Breasted (1865–1935), founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was a prolific writer of popularizing books on the ancient Near East. This article presents a critical analysis and historical contextualization of one of his most widely read books: Ancient Times, a History of the Early World. Published as a high school textbook in 1916 and revised in 1935, it serves as a reference point from which to investigate the effects of political and cultural variables on ancient historiography. Changes between the first and second editions of the book indicate that Breasted increasingly relied on scientific vocabulary to map the geo-racial boundaries of early civilization. Combining this with a model of enlightened exploitation, Breasted constructed a vision of the ancient past that was ultimately a commentary on the socio-political conditions of his own time.

First season of Syrian-American investigations at Hamoukar, Hasekeh Province

Iraq ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
McGuire Gibson ◽  
Muhammad Maktash ◽  
Judith A. Franke ◽  
Amr Al-Azm ◽  
John C. Sanders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Director General ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

In 1999, the joint expedition of the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago initiated excavations and surface reconnaissance at the site of Tell Hamoukar in the northeastern corner of Hassekeh Province (Figs. 1–2). We need to acknowledge, with gratitude, the help and encouragement rendered by Dr Sultan Muhesen, then Director General of Antiquities, and by Sayyid Abdul Messieh Bagdo, of the Antiquities office in Hassekeh.McGuire Gibson arrived in Damascus on August 24, 1999 and began to implement logistical arrangements with the co-director, Muhammad Maktash. Actual excavation of the site of Hamoukar began on September 9 and ended on October 31.Hamoukar has been a subject of interest to a number of scholars through the years because of its size and surface pottery, which includes southern Uruk IV types. The presence of even earlier 4th millennium local Late Chalcolithic pottery as well as Ninevite V and mid-3rd millennium types makes the site crucial in addressing a number of important questions. The complexity of settlement in the early 4th millennium, the nature of the Late Uruk occupation and its relation to other sites with similar material in Syria and Turkey, and the history of the site in the Akkadian and post-Akkadian periods can all be elucidated by excavation here.

Library of the Oriental Institute: history of the Chinese collection and catalogues creation

Bibliosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Liu Liqiu
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
Chinese Language Teaching ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
First Time

The article presents a little explored issue in the Russian historiography on the history of appearance and the essence of «the cipher catalog of Chinese books of the Oriental Institute Library» in Vladivostok. The author shows the process of formting the Chinese Department of the University Library in the late XIX – early XX centuries, the contribution of Sinologists professors A. V. Rudakov and P. P. Schmidt and others in the book collection creation. The theme is disclosed on the basis of reports published in the «Proceedings of the Institute of Oriental Studies», «Reference books on Oriental Institute in Vladivostok for 1909», and the documents of the central and local archives of the Russian Federation, some of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The importance of the bookcatalogue of the China Department is shown both for the Institute, China studying, and Chinese language teaching, for Far Eastern sinologists and Russian Sinology.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

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