The Epigraphic Survey and Chicago House
Celebrating Emily Teeters new book, Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey
Emily Teeter, ISAC (Retired)
In 1924, an Egyptologist, an artist, and a photographer—the staff of the University of Chicago’s new Epigraphic Survey—began the task of recording the scenes and inscriptions carved on the walls of the enormous, 3,000-year-old temple of Pharaoh Ramesses III at Medinet Habu near Luxor. It was the culmination of a long-standing dream of James Henry Breasted, the first American Egyptologist and founder of ISAC (then the Oriental Institute), to both copy and publish all the historical texts in the Nile Valley. The Epigraphic Survey was established to undertake this unimaginably ambitious program of field research.
A century later, the Epigraphic Survey continues to fulfill Breasted’s mission. Housed at Chicago House in Luxor, the expedition has documented some of the most important—and endangered—records to survive from ancient Egypt, using a well-established and tested method to create highly accurate facsimiles of the carvings and texts and to publish them as a permanent archive.
To download or purchase the book, please visit:
https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/ISACMP/isacmp2
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The Epigraphic Survey and Chicago House
Celebrating Emily Teeters new book, Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey
Emily Teeter, ISAC (Retired)
In 1924, an Egyptologist, an artist, and a photographer—the staff of the University of Chicago’s new Epigraphic Survey—began the task of recording the scenes and inscriptions carved on the walls of the enormous, 3,000-year-old temple of Pharaoh Ramesses III at Medinet Habu near Luxor. It was the culmination of a long-standing dream of James Henry Breasted, the first American Egyptologist and founder of ISAC (then the Oriental Institute), to both copy and publish all the historical texts in the Nile Valley. The Epigraphic Survey was established to undertake this unimaginably ambitious program of field research.
A century later, the Epigraphic Survey continues to fulfill Breasted’s mission. Housed at Chicago House in Luxor, the expedition has documented some of the most important—and endangered—records to survive from ancient Egypt, using a well-established and tested method to create highly accurate facsimiles of the carvings and texts and to publish them as a permanent archive.
To download or purchase the book, please visit:
https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/ISACMP/isacmp2
On Judicial Violence in Mesopotamia: The Problem of An Eye For An Eye by Martha Roth
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5 years ago
On Judicial Violence in Mesopotamia: The Problem of An Eye For An Eye by Martha Roth
OI Centennial Year Members' Lecture
"On Judicial Violence in Mesopotamia: The Problem of an Eye for an Eye"
Martha Roth
Chauncey S. Boucher Distinguished Service Professor of Assyriology
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Oriental Institute
This audio recording was originally presented as an illustrated lecture on March 4, 2020. The video of this lecture is available on the OI YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/qhlx1CPVRnc.
Our lectures are free and available to the public thanks to the generous support of our members. To become a member of the OI, please visit: bit.ly/2AWGgF7
ISAC Podcast
The Epigraphic Survey and Chicago House
Celebrating Emily Teeters new book, Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey
Emily Teeter, ISAC (Retired)
In 1924, an Egyptologist, an artist, and a photographer—the staff of the University of Chicago’s new Epigraphic Survey—began the task of recording the scenes and inscriptions carved on the walls of the enormous, 3,000-year-old temple of Pharaoh Ramesses III at Medinet Habu near Luxor. It was the culmination of a long-standing dream of James Henry Breasted, the first American Egyptologist and founder of ISAC (then the Oriental Institute), to both copy and publish all the historical texts in the Nile Valley. The Epigraphic Survey was established to undertake this unimaginably ambitious program of field research.
A century later, the Epigraphic Survey continues to fulfill Breasted’s mission. Housed at Chicago House in Luxor, the expedition has documented some of the most important—and endangered—records to survive from ancient Egypt, using a well-established and tested method to create highly accurate facsimiles of the carvings and texts and to publish them as a permanent archive.
To download or purchase the book, please visit:
https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/ISACMP/isacmp2
