Format:
1 online resource (374 pages)
ISBN:
9781107306745
Content:
This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East, bringing together architecture and cultural history.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- -- One Introduction -- Cities, Imagination, and Memory in the Ancient Near East -- Building the City -- Cities, Landscape, and the Long Term -- The Structure of the Book -- Two Landscapes of Change -- Introduction: Cities and Moving Landscapes -- "The Rock Was Untouched": The Ideology and Rhetorics of Landscapes -- Contemporary Approaches to Archaeological Landscapes -- Upper Mesopotamian Environment during the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition -- The Evidence from Regional Surveys -- Urbanization and Commemoration in Syro-Hittite Landscapes -- Moving Landscapes: Shifts in the Geography of Power -- Rock Reliefs, New Cities and Colonized Landscapes -- Making Places in Malizi/Melid -- Settling Agro-Pastoralists, Moving Capitals -- three The Land of Aur -- Introduction: Assyrian Landscapes on the Move -- Cities, Landscapes, and Political Actors in a Changing World -- Building the Frontiers: Middle Assyrian Foundations in the Jazira and the Upper Tigris Basin -- Beyond Aur: The Making of Assyria in a New Landscape -- Founding Kalhu -- Assyrian Rock Reliefs, Landscape Commemoration, and the Inscription of Place -- Conclusions: Moving Landscapes and Place-Making Practices -- four City and the Festival -- Introduction: Ceremony, Performance, and Building in the City -- The Production of Urban Space -- The Upper Mesopotamian City: Aspects of Planning and Urban Formation -- The Foundation of Kalhu: Narrativity and Performance -- Spatial Narratives: The Urban Landscape of Kalhu -- Obelisk and the Stele: The Ritualization of Public Space -- "These Gates I Orthostated": Monuments, Memory and the Making of Ceremonial Space at Karkami -- five Upright Stones and Building Stories -- Technological Style, Architectonic Culture, and the Spaces of Craft-Knowledge.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Landscapes of change: cities, politics, and memory; 3. The land of Aššur: the making of Assyrian landscapes; 4. City and the festival: monuments, urban space, and spatial narratives; 5. Upright stones: architectural technologies and the poetics of urban space; 6. Cities, place, and desire.
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; One Introduction; Cities, Imagination, and Memory in the Ancient Near East; Building the City; Cities, Landscape, and the Long Term; The Structure of the Book; Two Landscapes of Change; Introduction: Cities and Moving Landscapes; "The Rock Was Untouched": The Ideology and Rhetorics of Landscapes; Contemporary Approaches to Archaeological Landscapes; Upper Mesopotamian Environment during the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition; The Evidence from Regional Surveys; Urbanization and Commemoration in Syro-Hittite Landscapes; Moving Landscapes: Shifts in the Geography of PowerRock Reliefs, New Cities and Colonized Landscapes; Making Places in Malizi/Melid; Settling Agro-Pastoralists, Moving Capitals; three The Land of Aur; Introduction: Assyrian Landscapes on the Move; Cities, Landscapes, and Political Actors in a Changing World; Building the Frontiers: Middle Assyrian Foundations in the Jazira and the Upper Tigris Basin; Beyond Aur: The Making of Assyria in a New Landscape; Founding Kalhu; Assyrian Rock Reliefs, Landscape Commemoration, and the Inscription of Place; Conclusions: Moving Landscapes and Place-Making Practicesfour City and the Festival; Introduction: Ceremony, Performance, and Building in the City; The Production of Urban Space; The Upper Mesopotamian City: Aspects of Planning and Urban Formation; The Foundation of Kalhu: Narrativity and Performance; Spatial Narratives: The Urban Landscape of Kalhu; Obelisk and the Stele: The Ritualization of Public Space; "These Gates I Orthostated": Monuments, Memory and the Making of Ceremonial Space at Karkami; five Upright Stones and Building Stories ...
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107027947
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107027947
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Harmanşah, Ömür, 1971 - Cities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013 ISBN 9781107027947
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Alter Orient
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Stadt
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Gründung
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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