New ISAW Library Titles: March 2015

A list of books added to the ISAW Library in March 2015 is now available online both on the ISAW Library website and our Zotero library of new items. The titles are sorted in the website version according to thematic topics (e.g., "East Asia" and "Ancient Near East, Egypt, & Asia Minor"); and within each topic, the titles are organized according to Library of Congress classification. 

The 246 volumes added in March include a number of classical texts and secondary works on Greek literature from the library of Pieter Sijpesteijn (obituary by Director Roger S. Bagnall). The library was distributed between the various NYU libraries, but the entire collection can be found via a Bobcat search for "Sijpesteijn Collection." Many of the other items added to the ISAW Library collection during this month come from the library of Hayim and Miriam Tadmor, including a number of Hebrew-language titles that are sparsely held in American libraries.

One item from the Tadmor collection added this month is an unusual piece of Assyriological ephemera: a menu from the 8th International Congress of Orientalists (Stockholm, 1889), in which each course is described by a fragment from an ancient text in its original language (see image). The salad course is described by a three-page Babylonian poem, and the digestif is accompanied by a humorously doctored image of a relief from Nimrud showing Ninurta battling Anzu; in this version, he wields a fish and a bottle of soda water. The pamphlet was printed in rich lithographic color by E.J. Brill. 

As always, the titles added to the ISAW Library for the entire 2014-2015 academic year may be found both on our website and in our Zotero library.

If you have any comments or suggestions about our recent acquisitions or the associated Zotero library, please feel free to contact us. Until then, please follow our progress on Facebook and Twitter.