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    Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC; formerly the Oriental Institute), established in 1919, is the University...
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  • The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) or The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a nine-decade project at the...
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    Jarmo (category Neolithic sites of Asia)
    Directorate of Antiquities in 1940, and later became known to archaeologist Robert Braidwood from the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. At the time...
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    Ubaid period (category Archaeological cultures of West Asia)
    Graham Philip, University of Chicago. Oriental Institute, Grey College. Chicago, Ill.: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. pp. 181–200....
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    the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. Several examples left...
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    Tell Asmar Hoard (category Objects in the National Museum of Iraq)
    Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications 60. Chicago. 1943. More Sculpture from the Diyala Region. The University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications...
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  • The Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) (The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) is a project at the University of Chicago...
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    commentary in two volumes. University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, v. 3–4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-918986-73-3...
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  • Medjay (category Foreign contacts of ancient Egypt)
    Breasted (1906), §§ 317, 324 "Nubian Archers | The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago". oi.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-16. "Ancient Egyptian...
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  • Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) or The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a project at the University of Chicago...
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    Mušḫuššu (category Offspring of Tiamat)
    Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (PDF). Vol. 10: M, Part II. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Oriental Institute. p. 270...
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    conservation of the temple has been facilitated in chief part by the Architectural and Epigraphic Surveys of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute, almost...
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  • (ISAC); before 2023 it was "the Oriental Institute," established in 1919. Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago Medical Center Regenstein Library...
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    Diyala River (category Rivers of Iraq)
    the 1930s. They were conducted by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute (1930–1937) and by the University of Pennsylvania (1938–1939). The sites...
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    Oriental Medicine (Chicago) Northwestern College (Chicago, Bridgeview) Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (Chicago) Rasmussen University (Aurora, Mokena...
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    (5 June 2009). "On the Jerusalem Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls" (PDF). University of Chicago Oriental Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10...
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    Irving Finkel (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
    Fellow at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. In 1976 he returned to the UK, and was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Asiatic...
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    et al., eds. (1980). Assyrian dictionary, Volume 21. University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. ISBN 978-0-918986-05-4. Heine, Peter (2004). Food culture...
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    Robert K. Ritner (category University of Chicago alumni)
    most recently at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Ritner received his BA in psychology from Rice University in 1975, and his Ph.D...
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    First Five Seasons of Excavations 1961–1971. Part 1: Text. (PDF). Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications of the University of Chicago. pp. f, 147. Archived...
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  • Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (formerly named the Oriental Institute), part of the University of Chicago United Kingdom Faculty of Asian...
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    Nuzi texts (category Book of Genesis)
    Remaining Major Texts in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, V. 14)...
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  • Nabia Abbott (category University of Chicago faculty)
    American scholar of Islam, papyrologist and paleographer. She was the first woman professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She gained...
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    published by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute Volume 1, Texts of Spells 1-75 Volume 2, Texts of Spells 76-163 Volume 3, Texts of Spells 164-267...
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    Saqqara Bird (category Sculptures of ancient Egypt)
    Temple of Khonsu, Volume 1: Scenes of King Herihor in the Court. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications (OIP). Chicago: The Oriental Institute...
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    Dictionary. Chicago: University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. p. vii. ISBN 0-918986-05-2. OCLC 12555337. A few words are necessary to justify the use of the...
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    Clavicle fracture (category Injuries of shoulder and upper arm)
    in two volumes (PDF). Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago, Oriental Institute. pp. 350–354. ISBN 978-0-918986-73-3., fulltext of translation with commentary...
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    (1940), Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (PDF), University of Chicago Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-918986-96-2, archived...
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    Semna (Nubia) (category History of Nubia)
    curated at Arizona State University and the archaeological artifacts are curated at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.(H. McDonald, personal...
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    Additionally, the compound was probed by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago under the leadership of Erich Schmidt in several seasons between...
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