Picture Credits

  • Our Courses - Our Courses: Photograph of Oriental Institute by Daniel Burt, Photograph of Dickson Poon China Centre by Daniel Burt
  • Our Languages - Our Languages: Family tree of the indo-european languages. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Support Us - Support Us: Roman Column at Carthage. Photograph from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

 

  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Arabic: Al-Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad, Miftah al-‘ulum [The Key to the Sciences] St John’s College, MS 122
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Chinese: L0022489 Chinese painting on a tree leaf. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Classics and Oriental Studies: Directorium humanae vitae: Johannes of Capua's Latin translation from the Hebrew version of Kalila wa-Dimna (Strasbourg, c.1489).
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An undergraduate Egyptian class at the Ashmoean Museum. Photo by Liz Frood
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - European and Middle Eastern Studies: Page from a manuscript from Al-Andalus, 12 cent. Sura 15 : Al-Hijr. The thicker strokes in the center of the page are in the Kufic style of calligraphy. From http://faculty.washington.edu/wheelerb/quran/quran_index.html
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Hebrew Studies: L0063612 Hebrew manuscript A.36 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Jewish Studies: L0063614 Hebrew manuscript A.31 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Persian: L0050357 Persian 450 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Religion & Oriental Studies: Miniature painting of Ganesh from a manuscript of Hindu rituals and devotional tracts. British Library Shelfmark: Oriental MS 13757
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Sanskrit: V0045137 The holy Cow personified as World Mother. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Undergraduate - Turkish: L0033314 Figure of a baby in a womb. Turkish Ottoman Manuscript Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

 

  • Our Courses - Graduate - Bible Interpretation MSt: Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341), Job
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Buddhist Studies MPhil: Vajravarahi Mandala. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Classical Armenian Studies MSt: L0068016 Armenian 3 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Classical Hebrew Studies MSt: L0063612 Hebrew manuscript A.36 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Classical Indian Religion MPhil: Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1914) p. 64: Rama sending his signet-ring to Sita by K. Venkatappa
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Contemporary Chinese Studies MSc: View to the top of the Shanghai World Financial Centre at night. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Cuneiform Studies MPhil: Akkadian diplomatic letter found in Tell Amarna. Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Eastern Christian Studies MPhil: L0074208 MS.804. Saint Margaret, Virgin & Martyr ( -c. 285). Recto. Wellcome Library
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Egyptology MPhil: Doctoral student Chiara Salvatore recording inscriptions in the Temple of Ptah, Karnak (E. Frood)
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Islamic Art & Archaeology MPhil: L0033272 Persian prince with his attendants Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Islamic Art and Archaeology MSt: L0033266 Persian prince with his attendants Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Islamic Studies and History MPhil: Dome of the Rock, Facade. Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Islamic Studies and History MSt: Kitāb al-Daraj, by Ibn Shākir, Aḥmad ibn Mūsá. Treatise on astrology. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Japanese Studies MPhil: V0046792 A Japanese woman Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Japanese Studies MSc: A Japanese brush painting of bamboo by PrometheusAvV. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period MPhil: Statue to Menander, Theatre of Dionysos, Athens, Greece. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period MSt: Funerary stele of Sabbataios, son of Samuel. Louvre Museum AM 1474. Picture by Marie-Lan Nguyen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - MSt in Jewish Studies: L0063614 Hebrew manuscript A.31 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Korean Studies MSt: Goryeo dynasty Bodhisattva. Photograph by Joop Dorresteijn. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Modern Chinese Studies MPhil: Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, China. Uploaded by en:User:Billatq for enWikipedia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Modern Middle Eastern Studies MPhil: Interior of a shopping center in Doha, Qatar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Modern South Asian Studies MPhil: The Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai. Image taken by Nichalp on Sun, Aug 7, 2005. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Modern South Asian Studies MSc: Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Oriental Studies DPhil: L0032393 Oriental Calligraphy Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Oriental Studies MSt: L0032394 Oriental Calligraphy Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Syriac Studies MSt: L0034806 Page from Socrates Scholasticus - The Ecclesiastical History Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Tibetan and Himalayan Studies MPhil: The golden chorten at the Tashiding monastery complex in West Sikkim. Photograph by Dhillan Chandramowli. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Traditional China MSt: Wang Xizhi by Qian Xuan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Courses - Graduate - Traditional East Asia MPhil: Portrait of Admiral Kang Mincheom in the early Goryeo dynasty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

 

  • Our Languages - Akkadian: https://www.ancientworldwonders.com/sumerian-ancient-cuneiform-writing.html
  • Our Languages - Arabic: Al-Sakkaki, Yusuf ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad, Miftah al-‘ulum [The Key to the Sciences] St John’s College, MS 122
  • Our Languages - Aramaic: Aramaic papyrus containing a contract for a loan, dated to regnal year 5 of pharaoh Amyrtaios, in 400 BCE. From Elephantine (Upper Egypt), 28th Dynasty, Late Period.
  • Our Languages - Armenian: An illuminated manuscript painting by Sargis Ptisak, who was a 14th century Armenian artist. First Page of the Gospel of Mark, Cod. 2627, fol. 436 r. (Matenadaran). Work of Sargis Pitsak scanned from B. Choukaszian, Sargis Pitsak, printed in Finland, 1986
  • Our Languages - Avestan: http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/iranica/avestica/j2/j2/j2.htm
  • Our Languages - Chinese: L0067188 Wellcome Chinese Collection 23B Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Languages - Coptic: https://www.lib.umich.edu/writing-graeco-roman-egypt/manuscript.html
  • Our Languages - Egyptian: Hieroglyphic captions in the temple of Senwosret I at Karnak, Luxor, ca. 1900 BC (R. B. Parkinson)
  • Our Languages - Hebrew: http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/news/
  • Our Languages - Hindi: L0024671 Hindi Manuscript 754 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Languages - Hittite: Istanbul Museum of Archaeology - Tablet of the treaty between Hattushili III of Hatti and Ramesses II of Egypt, version found in Boghazköi/ Hattusha. Picture taken by Deror Avi.
  • Our Languages - Japanese: L0047732 Japanese MS 25 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Korean: L0063605 Korean MS 7 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Old Persian: Palace of Artaxerxes III
  • Our Languages - Pali: L0026543 Burmese-Pali Manuscript. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Languages - Persian: L0050357 Persian 450 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Languages - Prakrit: L0034106 The Kalpasutra (the heroic deeds of the conquerors) Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Sanskrit: L0070774 Sanskrit Manuscript Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Sumerian: Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina (or Uruinimgina), lugal (prince) of Lagash. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Our Languages - Syriac: L0034806 Page from Socrates Scholasticus - The Ecclesiastical History Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
  • Our Languages - Tibetan: V0046096 The Dhyani Buddha Amitabha, in Tibetan Odpagmed Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Turkish: L0029127 Oriental Collection, MS Ottoman Turkish 3 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Urdu: F0002806 PB Urdu 101 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images 
  • Our Languages - Yiddish: L0014673 Text from Precepts of slaughter (in Yiddish) Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images