Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

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

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
2kq5107p	Three Middle Persian documents from Fārs dating to the reigns of Xusrō II and Ohrmazd IV	848	372	112	183	181
9tj5d97n	Assembling the Iron Age Levant: The Archaeology of Communities, Polities, and Imperial Peripheries	600	165	104	142	189
65h424f1	History of Egypt 1382-1469 A.D., translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrî Birdî, Indices	455	81	97	136	141
40n1d5qv	Hoarded Treasures: The Megiddo Ivories and the End of the Bronze Age	443	120	87	101	135
0131c4js	The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic Text in 17 Facsimile Plates in Collotype with Introduction and Vocabulary	422	163	66	131	62
7t41f8j6	A newly discovered Middle Persian funerary inscription from Mount Zaneh	418	101	78	118	121
0qq556gc	Egypt and Syria under the Circassian Sultans, 1382-1468 A.D. Systematic Notes to Ibn Taghrî Birdî’s Chronicles of Egypt, continued	385	81	102	85	117
1j42b6f7	A New Middle Persian Document from Hastijan belonging to the Farroxzād Family	381	75	31	133	142
34x5s96s	Egypt and Syria under the Circassian Sultans, 1382-1468 A.D. Systematic Notes to Ibn Taghrî Birdî’s Chronicles of Egypt	374	93	120	72	89
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	75	71	95	121
3gc5755t	The Nachlass of Walter B. Henning: An Annotated Inventory	325	92	47	82	104
8ns6650c	Sasanian Seals from the Collection of the late Edward Gans at the University of California, Berkeley	320	104	64	69	83
0d2267mc	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part I: Parallelism in Amos	303	41	119	82	61
6v0837s4	The Xorde Avesta and the structuring of time	300	104	44	60	92
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	67	44	85	84
3g68325p	I Have a Story, Too: Suicide Bombers, Borders, & Peripheral Narratives	279	46	50	75	108
1664j0bc	Face-to-Face with the Past: Reconstructing a Teenage Boy from Early Dilmun	275	72	51	68	84
3bf088gh	New readings in seven Middle Persian documents from the archive of Hastijan with an edition of Berk. 19	275	88	52	62	73
8m60x7vq	Authority, polity, and tenuous elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)	270	108	51	46	65
1tt957q7	Extensification in a Mediterranean Semi-Arid Marginal Zone: An Archaeological Case Study from Early Iron Age Jordan's Eastern Karak Plateau	266	42	51	63	110
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	54	43	65	102
5zx8d9x7	The Busayra Cultural Heritage Project’s 2013 Site Assessment Season	261	44	46	73	98
6h36x5vw	Towards a Manifesto for Middle Iranian Philology	258	82	32	64	80
96b6m3md	Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon	257	50	57	70	80
6s55t2d3	The Verb in Harari (South Ethiopic)	252	61	37	64	90
9j39d3c5	Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California	249	58	42	112	37
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	58	42	75	68
0m915846	Moving Beyond King Mesha: The Archaeology of Social Life in Iron Age Jordan	242	57	33	64	88
52r3v9xz	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part II: Parallelism in Isaiah, Chapters 11-35 (and 37.22-35)	229	37	38	70	84
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	50	45	59	72
8p5944m6	Abû ’l-Maḥâsin Ibn Taghrî Birdî’s Annals entitled An-Nujûm az-Zâhira fî Mulûk Miṣr wal-Ḳâhira, Vol. VI.	221	36	41	68	76
506794cz	Crop Storage and Animal Husbandry at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya (Jordan): A Paleoethnobotanical Approach	216	75	35	31	75
0xh1p2jk	Egyptian Pottery: Proceeding of the 1990 Pottery Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley	214	32	35	61	86
34w048mm	The Climate Crisis, Cultural Heritage, and the Future of Middle Eastern Archaeology	206	38	26	54	88
5jg0p3df	Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California	203	53	30	60	60
3z15677c	Homebound travelers: the return's destabilization of homeland in Arabic literature	194	47	25	42	80
2kz517g7	Feeding the Community: Objects, Scarcity and Commensality in the Early Iron Age Southern Levant	193	38	32	50	73
14q686n6	A Brief Handbook to the Edward Gans Collection of Seals	181	27	21	55	78
9p46b7rg	Sasanian Sealstones	177	49	22	46	60
7dr4z0tf	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part II: Parallelism in Isaiah, Chapters 1-10	168	28	30	52	58
1nx1694n	Studies in Biblical Parallelisms. Part II: Parallelism in Isaiah, Chapters 1-35 and 37.22-35. The Reconstructed Text (Hebrew)	167	29	29	58	51
8p02q5vx	Ibn Taghrî Birdî: An-Nujûm az-Zâhira fî Mulûk Misr wal-Kâhira	165	62	24	34	45
2z06r9bj	The Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project: A First Look at the Peter B. Cornwall Collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology	163	50	25	29	59
5d25c95x	Measuring Local Diversity in Early Iron Age Animal Economies: A View from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya (Jordan)	156	28	14	39	75
6mz830r7	Commemorating Disability in Early Dilmun: Ancient and Contemporary Tales from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection	152	31	21	38	62
794560j3	Introduction: Bringing Out the Dead in the Ancient Near East.	143	32	29	23	59
37w0t9kr	Dry dig: Ethics and alcohol in Middle Eastern archaeological practice	142	35	21	35	51
9t822113	Peter B. Cornwall Collection Assessment	141	35	21	30	55
0qx1f1mg	Hard Times: Critical Approaches to Crisis and its Aftermath: Interview	139	24	12	23	80
67w7f0f9	Editorial Letter	138	40	17	23	58

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