All ISAW Publications
Individual articles appearing in our journal ISAW Papers are listed on a separate page.
'Ain el-Gedida
The fourth volume in the Amheida series presents results of the excavations at ‘Ain el-Gedida, a fourth-century rural settlement in Egypt's Dakleh Oasis uniquely important for the study of early Egyptian Christianity and previously known only from written sources.
A Late Romano-Egyptian House in Dakhla Oasis
This second volume in the Amheida series addresses the architecture, artifacts and ecofacts recovered from Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis in a holistic manner, which has rarely before been attempted in a full report on the excavation of a Romano-Egyptian house.
A Wonder to Behold
Catalogue of the exhibition "A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate" on view at ISAW November 6, 2019–May 24, 2020.
Aksum and Nubia
This volume breaks new ground in the history of late antique North East Africa by assembling and analyzing the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE.
Amheida V
The House of Serenos, Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V) by Clementina Caputo, with contributions by Julie Marchand and Irene Soto Marín (ISAW/NYU Press, 2020; ISBN: 9781479804658) is a comprehensive catalog and analysis of the ceramic finds from the late antique house of a local notable and adjacent streets in ancient Trimithis.
Amheida VI
The House of Serenos, Part II (9781479813476) is the second volume dedicated to the archaeology of the large élite residence now known as the “House of Serenos,” at Amheida, or the ancient city of Trimithis, in the Dakhla Oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt. This volume provides an authoritative account of the architectural and archaeological history of the house, from its construction, through its various renovations and expansions, to its ultimate abandonment in the late fourth century CE.
An Oasis City
This book provides an accessible and richly illustrated presentation of Amheida, a well-preserved, ancient oasis city in Egypt's Western Desert as revealed by a decade of archaeological investigation.
Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
This work upends prior scholarly consensus, identifying and analyzing real scientific themes in earlier Judaism and drawing attention especially to scientific activity evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha.
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Ancient Taxation
Ancient Taxation is a collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain.
Ancient Western Asia beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE)
Ancient Western Asia beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant.
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Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL)
AWDL is an initiative of the ISAW Library in collaboration with NYU's Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS) and other partners. AWDL identifies, collects, curates, and provides access to a broad range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.
Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB)
An early experiment in the archiving and disseminating free digital images of sites and objects from the ancient world, AWIB currently distributes over 3,000 open-licensed images via the Flickr photo-sharing website.
Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā
The Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā is a publication of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, realized in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. This project aims recover, preserve, study and make accessible the corpus of inscriptions of ancient Campā (in present Việt Nam), written either in Sanskrit or in Old Cam.
Designing Identity
Catalogue of the exhibition "Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity" on view at ISAW February 25 - May 22, 2016.
Digital Central Asian Archaeology (DCAA) Collection
DCAA is a digital archive and library of Soviet-era and later archaeological reports, surveys, and scholarship on Central Asia that currently contains contains 977 downloadable publications.
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Early Christianity at Amheida, A Fourth-Century Church: Volume 1
An archaeological, historical, and art historical study of an early funerary church excavated at Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis, at the edge of the Roman Empire.
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Edge of Empires
Catalogue of the exhibition "Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos" on view at ISAW September 23, 2011 – January 8, 2012.
From Ancient to Modern
Catalogue of the exhibition "From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics" on view at ISAW February 12, 2015 - June 7, 2015.
Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna
The graffiti published in this richly-illustrated volume were discovered during an excavation of the Roman basilica in the Ancient Greek city of Smyrna, known today as Izmir, which is situated on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey.
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Hymn to Apollo
Catalogue of the exhibition "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes" on view at ISAW March 6 – June 2, 2019.
ISAW Newsletters
The Institute has issued hard-copy newsletters 2-3 times a year since December 2008 in order to publicize major events, research projects, program changes, and other news.
Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology
The Journal is devoted to the ancient and medieval cultures of the vast area traversed by the “silk roads.” Stretching from the Iranian world into China and from the Russian steppes to northwestern India, the territory today includes Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and regions within the People’s Republic of China.
Library Blog
The ISAW Library has its own blog through which they publicize library-related events, acquisitions, projects, and team-member achievements. It has been in operation since 2014.
Masters of Fire
Catalogue of the exhibition "Masters of Fire: Copper Age Art from Israel" on view at ISAW February 13, 2014 - June 8, 2014.
Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts
The editors present the first full scholarly edition of a late antique codex that contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. It was evidently a textbook for training business agents and similar professionals.
News Blog
Our blog has been covering events, achievements, and other community and institutional news since 2010.
Nomads and Networks
Catalogue of the exhibition "Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan" on view at ISAW March 7 - June 3, 2012.
NYU Ostraka
Ostraka in the Collection of New York University is a comprehensive edition and commentary of seventy-seven ostraka, or potsherds with ancient texts written on them, from Greco-Roman and late antique Egypt.
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)
A joint project of the American Numismatic Society and ISAW, OCRE is a digital corpus of the coinage of the Roman Empire. At present, you can browse or search to find all coin types from Augustus to Hadrian (27 BC – AD 138), and links to examples present in the ANS collection.
Ostraka from Trimithis 1
This first volume in the Amheida series presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at this ancient site in Egypt's Western Desert.
Ostraka from Trimithis 2
This third volume in the Amheida series adds 491 more ostraka to the growing corpus of primary texts from the site.
Papyri.info
Led by the Duke University Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) in collaboration with ISAW and other projects and institutions around the world, Papyri.info brings together images, texts, translations and descriptions of ancient documents preserved on papyrus paper, pottery sherds, and similar materials.
Pleiades
A joint project of ISAW and the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about over 40,000 ancient places and spaces (and growing).
Restoring the Minoans
Catalogue of the exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans" on view at ISAW October 5, 2017 – January 7, 2018.
Romance and Reason
Catalogue of the exhibition "Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past" on view at ISAW February 14, 2018 – May 13, 2018.
Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert
Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern Desert during the Roman period.
Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
The contributions presented in Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East engage with topics in medicine, astronomy, astrology, and other forms of divination, as seen from a variety of textual sources in several languages and scripts from Egypt and the Near East spanning more than a millennium, including some texts that are edited and discussed here for the first time. The contributors, which include both established and early-career scholars, were tasked with approaching their texts not only as specialists, but also from a cross-cultural perspective, and the resulting body of work reveals new and exciting evidence for the transfer of scientific knowledge across cultural borders in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
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The AWOL Index
This publication systematically describes ancient-world information resources on the world-wide web. Its content has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online, a blog authored since 2009 by Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University.
The Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury
Catalogue of an exhibition that originated at the Getty Villa in 2014 and was subsequently restructured and presented at at ISAW October 17, 2018 – January 6, 2019 under the title: "Devotion and Decadence."
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The Eye of the Shah
Catalogue of the exhibition "The Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past" on view at ISAW October 22, 2015-January 17, 2016.
The Origins of Monsters
Originally presented as the 2011 Rostovtzeff Lectures at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, David Wengrow's book examines the reasons behind the dissemination of monstrous imagery in ancient states and empires.
The Political Machine
Originally presented as the 2013 Rostovtzeff Lectures at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Adam T. Smith's book investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty.
The rise of Coptic
Originally presented as the 2017 Rostovtzeff Lectures at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Jean-Luc Fournet's book sheds new light on the role of monasticism in the growing use of Coptic in Egypt before the Arab conquest.
The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII
The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII: The Greek and Roman Pottery presents in two volumes the Greek and Roman pottery recovered from the excavation of the sanctuary of Syme Viannou, one of the most long-lived and important cult sites of ancient Crete and the Aegean. The present study analyzes and catalogs 865 pieces, dating from across the early first millennium BCE to the mid-first millennium CE. Kotsonas integrates traditional typological and chronological inquiries with contextual considerations, macroscopic and petrographic analyses of ceramic fabrics, and quantitative studies. The resulting work provides detailed documentation of the pottery from Syme Viannou and explores its ritual and other roles within the diachronic panorama of cultic and other activities at the site.
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Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Catalogue of the exhibition "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity" on view at ISAW October 19, 2016 - April 23, 2017.
When the Greeks Ruled Egypt
Catalogue for the exhibition "When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra" on view at ISAW October 8, 2014 - January 4, 2015.