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This volume-companion to the exhibition 'Back to School in Babylonia' of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago-explores education in the Old Babylonian period. The essays offer a history of House F at Nippur and the catalogue presents the 126 objects, mainly cuneiform tablets, included in the exhibition.

Journey back in time 3, 800 years to Nippur, a city in ancient Babylonia, as a girl sets out on a quest to become a scribe. Inanaka learns how to make a tablet and write her name, solves the many puzzles of the cuneiform writing system, and prepares with her family for a festival, all with the help (some of the time, at least) of her dog, Tuni.

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184 figs, 7 tbls, 3 maps, 10 plans & 107 pls.

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This volume documents the results of the excavations of the Palatial Complex at the city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey. It was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria, founded in the later seventh century BC, put to the torch in the mid-sixth century and then abandoned.

The thirty-seven essays in this volume cover, among other topics relating to northwestern Semitic languages, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.

This book presents a comprehensive corpus of beads and pendants found during excavations undertaken by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago between 1960 and 1968 at the Lower Nubian sites of Qustul, Adindan, Serra East, Dorginarti, Ballana and Kalabsha and stored in the Oriental Institute Museum.

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging from South America and the southwestern United States to North Africa, the Middle East and Asia they describe the physical attributes and environments of early irrigation systems, and irrigation's economic, sociopolitical and cosmological dimensions.

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This volume documents excavations in the Hamrin Basin area in the east-central part of Iraq. The two sites covered in these excavations are Tell Abada and Tell Rashid, dating back to the Ubaid period in the fifth millennium BC.

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The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. They were excavated at the site of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt.