The volume presents facsimile copies of over two hundred previously unpublished Babylonian letters and documents written in cuneiform script. The texts, dating from the sixth century BCE, mainly originate from the archives of the Eanna temple in Uruk in southern Mesopotamia, and they contribute...
Consorts of the Caliphs Women and the Court of Baghdad
The Facade, Portals, Upper Register Scenes, Columns, Marginalia and Statuary in the Colonnade Hall
Publication of the "non-Opet" scenes and inscriptions in the Colonnade Hall of Luxor Temple. These include the traces of the original Eighteenth Dynasty decoration of the façade, altered under Ramesses II, a strangely altered scene on the entrance portal suggesting an Atonist attack on an original...
The Festival Procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall
Publication, with translation and commentary, of facsimile plates of the scenes of the festival procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall of Luxor Temple. Principally the work of the reign of Tutankhamun, these scenes depict the journeys of the barks of the Theban triad, and the deified ruler, from...
Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ahmad Ibn 'Alwan lived through the transition period from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen. He was well known in his time for his critique of the ruling elites and their governance, and left behind a substantial body of writings on Islamic mysticism...
