oi.uchicago.edu MEDITERRANEAN S SEA MOUNTAIN S Kara Su ANU AM AMUQ PLAIN Tayinat Antakya (Antioch) Atchana THEORIENTAL INSTITUTE IVER 2001–2002 R NTES 2001–2002 ANNUAL REPORT O ANNUAL REPORT1 R O oi.uchicago.edu Cover and title page illustration: The topography of the Amuq Plain with the Amanus Mountains to the west and the limestone highlands to the east and south. Black dots are archaeological sites recorded by Robert Braidwood and the current Amuq Valley Regional Projects. The topography is derived from a publicly available “digital terrain model.” The pages that divide the sections of this year’s report feature satellite photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey. Editor: Gil J. Stein Production Editor: Emily Napolitano Printed by United Graphics Incorporated, Mattoon, Illinois The Oriental Institute, Chicago Copyright 2002 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2002. Printed in the United States of America. 2 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE oi.uchicago.edu CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION. Gil J. Stein ..................................................................................................................... 7 IN MEMORIAM .......................................................................................................................................... 9 RESEARCH .................................................................................................................................................... 11 PROJECT REPORTS ...................................................................................................................................... 13 AMUQ VALLEY REGIONAL PROJECTS. K. Aslıhan Yener .................................................................... 13 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUrvEY IN THE AMUQ VALLEY. Tony J. Wilkinson ............................................ 20 AQABA PROJECT. Donald Whitcomb .................................................................................................... 24 CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY. Martha T. Roth ............................................................................ 26 CHICAGO DEMOTIC DICTIONARY. Janet H. Johnson .......................................................................... 28 CHICAGO HITTITE DICTIONARY. Theo van den Hout .......................................................................... 30 DIYALA PROJECT. Clemens Reichel ...................................................................................................... 31 EPIGRAPHIC SUrvEY. W. Raymond Johnson ........................................................................................ 39 GIZA PLATEAU MAPPING PROJECT. Mark Lehner ............................................................................... 49 HADIR QINNASRIN. Donald Whitcomb ................................................................................................. 62 HAMOUKAR. McGuire Gibson .............................................................................................................. 64 JOINT PREHISTORIC PROJECT. Robert J. Braidwood and Linda S. Braidwood ................................... 76 MIDDLE EGYPTIAN TEXT EDITIONS FOR ON-LINE RESEARCH. Janet H. Johnson ............................ 76 NIPPUR. McGuire Gibson ...................................................................................................................... 79 TELL ES-SWEYHAT. Thomas A. Holland ............................................................................................... 85 PROJECT FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF YEMENI TERRACED AGRICULTURE. Tony J. Wilkinson ........... 96 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH .............................................................................................................................. 102 RESEARCH SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................. 120 COMPUTER LABORATORY. John C. Sanders ........................................................................................ 120 ELECTRONIC RESOURCES. Charles E. Jones and John C. Sanders ..................................................... 125 PUBLICATIONS OFFICE. Thomas A. Holland ........................................................................................ 126 RESEARCH ARCHIVES. Charles E. Jones .............................................................................................. 128 MUSEUM ...................................................................................................................................................... 133 MUSEUM. Karen L. Wilson ........................................................................................................................ 135 MUSEUM EDUCATION. Carole Krucoff ..................................................................................................... 141 VOLUNTEER PROGRAM. Catherine Dueñas and Terry Friedman ............................................................. 155 SUQ. Denise Browning .............................................................................................................................. 165 DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................................................................................... 167 DEVELOPMENT. Gil J. Stein ....................................................................................................................... 169 VISITING COMMITTEE TO THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE ........................................................................ 171 HONOR ROLL OF MEMBERS AND DONORS ....................................................................................... 173 STAFF OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE ...................................................................................................... 203 INFORMATION ........................................................................................................................................... 208 2001–2002 ANNUAL REPORT 3 oi.uchicago.edu 4 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE oi.uchicago.edu INTRODUCTION 2001–2002 ANNUAL REPORT 5 oi.uchicago.edu Overleaf: CORONA satellite photograph of the southern portion of the Qoueiq river valley to the southwest of Aleppo showing the village of Hadir, underneath which lies the early Islamic settlement of Qinnasrin, currently being excavated by Donald Whitcomb. Note the two tells of Hadir (to right) and Chalcis (to left), and the dis- tinct pattern of modern radial routes focused on the village of Hadir. Printed by courtesy of the US Geological Survey 6 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE oi.uchicago.edu INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION GIL J. STEIN On a visit to Chicago this year, the distinguished archaeologist Robert McC. Adams, former Director of the Oriental Institute (before going on to be Provost of the University of Chicago and later Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution), commented that in his view, the Oriental Institute is now embarking on its “second golden age.” As incoming director, the more I learn about the people and projects of the Oriental Institute, the more convinced I am that Bob Ad- ams’s assessment is absolutely correct. As documented in this year’s Annual Report, the range of Oriental Institute projects and the significance of this work of discovery are quite simply breathtaking. This unique research institute, eighty-three years old, continues to break new ground as a center for innovation and scholarship in the use of textual and archaeological data to reconstruct the ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Levant, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran. The central mission of the Oriental Institute is discovery. Oriental Institute scholars bring to life the richness of ancient civilizations through the exploration of ancient sites and landscapes, through the study of textual materials, through the recording and preservation of monuments, and through the development of fundamental research tools such as dictionaries designed to give scholars worldwide access to the written record of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Egypt. In each of these avenues of discovery, Oriental Institute researchers have con- sistently been at the cutting edge — most notably by applying advanced technology to the understanding of ancient civilizations. The cover art and the pages dividing each section of this Annual Report bring home this innovation and intellectual integration in a particularly striking way. The photographs are recently declassified CORONA intelligence satellite images, created in the 1960s and 1970s, showing archaeological sites in north Syria and southeast Anatolia. These provide an invalu- able tool to Oriental Institute researchers, enabling them to identify archaeological sites and settlement patterns from space, while also allowing them to reconstruct patterns of ancient land use for agriculture, herding, and trade. By integrating the satellite imagery with the results from excavations, archaeological survey, and the analysis of surviving cuneiform documents from relevant sites, it becomes possible to put together a completely new picture of how the ancient city states and empires of Mesopotamia and north Syria developed, functioned, and eventually collapsed. This entirely new interdisciplinary framework for reconstructing the past lies at the heart of a new Oriental Institute research unit with the wonderfully appropriate acronym of CAMEL — the Center for the Archaeology of the Middle