This fully-illustrated catalogue of highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is the first publication to make this material accessible to scholars and to the general public.

This fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published. The artefacts include statues, stelae, tools, games, clothing, coffins, figured ostraca, and papyri; each item is described, and its function and symbolism are discussed. Brief texts are translated. Appendices give museum registration numbers, provenance, and bibliographies.

Preface
Acknowledgements
A history of the Egyptian collection
Selections from the collection: Early dynastic period and Old Kingdom
First Intermediate period and Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom and Thjird Intermediate period
The Late period
Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine periods
Glossary
Bibliography of works consulted
Appendices
Indices.