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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
    UID:
    almafu_9958075374602883
    Format: 1 online resource (xix, 351 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-107-23688-6 , 1-107-30165-3 , 1-107-53374-0 , 1-107-31449-6 , 1-107-30581-0 , 1-139-22721-1 , 1-107-30894-1 , 1-107-30674-4 , 1-299-25732-1
    Content: This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (c.1200-850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , 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 and building stories: architectural technologies and the poetics of urban space -- 6. Cities, place, and desire. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-02794-2
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-31229-9
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York : Cambridge University Press
    UID:
    gbv_1696647770
    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.
    Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , 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. , 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
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    Keywords: Alter Orient ; Stadt ; Gründung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Electronic books
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