New ISAW Library Titles: May 2017

By Gabriel McKee
09/15/2017

A list of books added to the ISAW Library in May 2017 is now available online on the ISAW Library website. The titles are sorted in the website version according to thematic topics (e.g., "East Asia" and "Ancient Near East & Asia Minor"); and within each topic, the titles are organized according to Library of Congress classification. The authors and titles of works in non-Roman languages are given in their original script. This list is also available in a Zotero library ~~and as a browsable map created using Google Fusion Tables~~. [Update, February 2021: Our new map interface is now live. The May 2017 map is available here.]

210 volumes were added to the collection in May, representing a diverse collection of subjects, regions, and time periods. The distribution of titles in this month's list is the broadest since we began mapping additions to our library last year, ranging from Central Europe to Southeast Asia, from upper Egypt to the Russian Far East. Of particular note this month are:

Several recent volumes of Kültepe tabletleri publishing Old Assyrian texts from the ancient city of Kanesh in Anatolia
Several Syriac texts recently published by Gorgias Press, including Persian martyr acts under King Yazdgird I (Small Collection BR1608.P47 P47 2016) and The Julian Romance (Small Collection BR65.J786 S6 2016)
The first volume of Курганы Суцзуктэ (Ноин-Ула, Монголия) = The Suzukteh mounds (Noin-Ula, Mongolia) (Large Collection DS798.9.N65 P654 2015 ch. 1), publishing the findings of an important excavation of three Xiongnu tombs in Mongolia
A number of books from the library of Susan L. Beningson, including David N. Keightley's The ancestral landscape: time, space, and community in late Shang China, ca. 1200-1045 B.C. (Small Collection DS744 .K43 2000)

As always, the titles added to the ISAW Library for the entire academic year may be found both on our website and in our Zotero library. You can also follow our progress on Facebook and Twitter.

If you have any comments or suggestions about our recent acquisitions, the associated Zotero library, or our ongoing collection mapping project, please feel free to contact us.