Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
2kq5107p	Three Middle Persian documents from Fārs dating to the reigns of Xusrō II and Ohrmazd IV	848	448	400	52.8%
9tj5d97n	Assembling the Iron Age Levant: The Archaeology of Communities, Polities, and Imperial Peripheries	600	337	263	56.2%
65h424f1	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D., translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî, Indices	455	373	82	82.0%
40n1d5qv	Hoarded Treasures: The Megiddo Ivories and the End of the Bronze Age	443	299	144	67.5%
0131c4js	The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic Text in 17 Facsimile Plates in Collotype with Introduction and Vocabulary	422	308	114	73.0%
7t41f8j6	A newly discovered Middle Persian funerary inscription from Mount Zaneh	418	250	168	59.8%
0qq556gc	Egypt and Syria under the Circassian Sultans, 1382-1468 A.D. Systematic Notes to Ibn Taghrî Birdî’s Chronicles of Egypt, continued	385	319	66	82.9%
1j42b6f7	A New Middle Persian Document from Hastijan belonging to the Farroxzād Family	381	104	277	27.3%
34x5s96s	Egypt and Syria under the Circassian Sultans, 1382-1468 A.D. Systematic Notes to Ibn Taghrî Birdî’s Chronicles of Egypt	374	283	91	75.7%
0hp3f92j	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D. (Part IV, 1422-1438 A.D.), translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî	362	279	83	77.1%
3gc5755t	The Nachlass of Walter B. Henning: An Annotated Inventory	325	98	227	30.2%
8ns6650c	Sasanian Seals from the Collection of the late Edward Gans at the University of California, Berkeley	320	157	163	49.1%
0d2267mc	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part I: Parallelism in Amos	303	272	31	89.8%
6v0837s4	The Xorde Avesta and the structuring of time	300	129	171	43.0%
68k379b1	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D. (Part III, 1412-1422 A.D.), translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî	280	195	85	69.6%
3g68325p	I Have a Story, Too: Suicide Bombers, Borders, & Peripheral Narratives	279	96	183	34.4%
1664j0bc	Face-to-Face with the Past: Reconstructing a Teenage Boy from Early Dilmun	275	178	97	64.7%
3bf088gh	New readings in seven Middle Persian documents from the archive of Hastijan with an edition of Berk. 19	275	127	148	46.2%
8m60x7vq	Authority, polity, and tenuous elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)	270	90	180	33.3%
1tt957q7	Extensification in a Mediterranean Semi-Arid Marginal Zone: An Archaeological Case Study from Early Iron Age Jordan's Eastern Karak Plateau	266	146	120	54.9%
9wn6t7xm	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D. (Part VII, 1461-1468 A.D.), translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî	264	195	69	73.9%
5zx8d9x7	The Busayra Cultural Heritage Project’s 2013 Site Assessment Season	261	183	78	70.1%
6h36x5vw	Towards a Manifesto for Middle Iranian Philology	258	57	201	22.1%
96b6m3md	Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon	257	209	48	81.3%
6s55t2d3	The Verb in Harari (South Ethiopic)	252	188	64	74.6%
9j39d3c5	Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California	249	188	61	75.5%
5wb6z28z	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D. (Part VI, 1453-1461 A.D.), translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî	243	171	72	70.4%
0m915846	Moving Beyond King Mesha: The Archaeology of Social Life in Iron Age Jordan	242	125	117	51.7%
52r3v9xz	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part II: Parallelism in Isaiah, Chapters 11-35 (and 37.22-35)	229	177	52	77.3%
6r5739wx	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D. (Part II, 1399-1411 A.D.), translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî	226	182	44	80.5%
8p5944m6	Abû ’l-Maḥâsin Ibn Taghrî Birdî’s Annals entitled An-Nujûm az-Zâhira fî Mulûk Miṣr wal-Ḳâhira, Vol. VI.	221	166	55	75.1%
506794cz	Crop Storage and Animal Husbandry at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya (Jordan): A Paleoethnobotanical Approach	216	58	158	26.9%
0xh1p2jk	Egyptian Pottery: Proceeding of the 1990 Pottery Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley	214	131	83	61.2%
34w048mm	The Climate Crisis, Cultural Heritage, and the Future of Middle Eastern Archaeology	206	47	159	22.8%
5jg0p3df	Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California	203	139	64	68.5%
3z15677c	Homebound travelers: the return's destabilization of homeland in Arabic literature	194	55	139	28.4%
2kz517g7	Feeding the Community: Objects, Scarcity and Commensality in the Early Iron Age Southern Levant	193	91	102	47.2%
14q686n6	A Brief Handbook to the Edward Gans Collection of Seals	181	81	100	44.8%
9p46b7rg	Sasanian Sealstones	177	82	95	46.3%
7dr4z0tf	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part II: Parallelism in Isaiah, Chapters 1-10	168	146	22	86.9%
1nx1694n	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part II: Parallelism in Isaiah, Chapters 1-35 and 37.22-35. The Reconstructed Text (Hebrew)	167	149	18	89.2%
8p02q5vx	Ibn Taghrî Birdî: An-Nujûm az-Zâhira fî Mulûk Misr wal-Kâhira	165	124	41	75.2%
2z06r9bj	The Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project: A First Look at the Peter B. Cornwall Collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology	163	56	107	34.4%
5d25c95x	Measuring Local Diversity in Early Iron Age Animal Economies: A View from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya (Jordan)	156	84	72	53.8%
6mz830r7	Commemorating Disability in Early Dilmun: Ancient and Contemporary Tales from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection	152	69	83	45.4%
794560j3	Introduction: Bringing Out the Dead in the Ancient Near East.	143	52	91	36.4%
37w0t9kr	Dry dig: Ethics and alcohol in Middle Eastern archaeological practice	142	62	80	43.7%
9t822113	Peter B. Cornwall Collection Assessment	141	36	105	25.5%
0qx1f1mg	Hard Times: Critical Approaches to Crisis and its Aftermath: Interview	139	54	85	38.8%
67w7f0f9	Editorial Letter	138	35	103	25.4%

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