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1 Online-Ressource (745 pages)
ISBN:
9781785701320
Serie:
Focus on Fortifications v.2
Inhalt:
Preface -- Introduction -- Studying Ancient Fortifications: A promising and expanding field -- Origins of Fortifications -- Introduction -- Mari and the Development of Complex Defensive Systems in Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History -- Mesopotamian Poliorcetics Before Assyria: Genesis of the Art of Fortification and Siege Warfare -- Building the Frontier: Frontier Fortifications in the Assyrian Empire -- Fortifications of Prehistoric Crete: The Current State of Research -- Late Middle Helladic and Early Late Helladic Fortifications: Some Considerations on the Role of Burials and Grave Monuments at City Gates -- The Fortifications of Archaic Rome: Social and Political Significance -- Fortifications of Central Anatolia in the Early First Millennium BC -- Origins of Sabaean Fortifications of the Early 1st Millennium BC - Some Suggestions to the Examples of the Cities Marib and ?irwa? (Yemen) -- Physical Surroundings and Technique: The Building Experience -- Physical Surroundings, Technique and Building Experience: The State of Research in the Network Fokus Fortifikation -- Techniques et économie de la construction des fortifications en pierre: méthodes et perspectives -- Fortifying a Major Early Bronze Age Centre: The Construction and Maintenance of Tell Chuera's (Northern Syria) Outer Defence Works -- The Fortifications of Larisa (Buruncuk) Reconsidered -- The Acropolis Wall on Monte Croccia (South Italy). Building a Lucanian Fortification: The Economical and Representative Utilization of the Landscape -- Functions and Semantics -- Functions and Semantics of Fortifications: An Introduction -- The Castle Euryalos of Syracuse -- Fortifications and Town Planning in Kyrrhos: Its Hellenistic Origin and Its Evolution -- Form, Funktion und Bedeutung der Stadtmauern von Perge in Pamphylien
Inhalt:
Hellenistische Prunktore - ein wissenschaftlicher Irrtum? Vorläufige Grabungsergebnisse vom Osttor von Side aus der Kampagne 2012 -- The Function and Significance of Fortified Sanctuary Precincts in the Eastern Mediterranean World during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods -- Fortified Palaces and Residences in Hellenistic Times: The Upper Castle on Mount Karasis and Other Examples -- Zur semantischen Funktion des Bogens im Stadttorbau. Ein Vergleich zwischen republikanischen und hellenistischen Stadttoren -- Candentia Moenia. The Symbolism of Roman City Walls -- The Fortification of Secondary Settlements in Late Roman Gaul -- The Two Defensive Systems of the Late Roman Imperial Palace of Romuliana-Gamzigrad (Dacia Ripensis) -- Historical Context -- Antike Befestigungsbauten im historischen Kontext. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag des Netzwerks ‚Fokus Fortifikation' -- Defence, Attack and the Fate of the Defeated: Reappraising the Role of City-walls -- Neue Forschungen zu den Befestigungen von Ephesos in archaischer und klassischer Zeit: Archäologischer Befund und Schriftquellen -- The Pontine Region Under the Early Republic: A Contested Landscape -- Römisch-italische Stadtmauern der Mittleren Republik: Funktion und Semantik. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung zu Livius -- Les fortifications de Myra dans la défense de la Lycie orientale -- The Athenian Walls in the 1st Century BC -- The Late Roman City Wall of Resafa/Sergiupolis (Syria): Its Evolution and Functional Transition from Representative over Protective to Concealing -- The Fortification of Regions -- Regional Fortifications and the Fortification of Regions -- Étudier l'organisation défensive d'une région et son évolution: pour une archéologie historique des fortifications. Question de méthode -- Les fortifications dans le système défensif lacédémonien à l'époque classique
Inhalt:
Isolated Towers in the Fortification Network of Ancient Molossia: A Case Study -- Les tours isolées de l'Hispanie romaine: postes militaires ou maisons fortes? -- Some Preliminary Results Regarding the Mithridatic Defence System -- City Walls as Regional and Imperial Strategy? The Case of South Languedoc -- Claustra Alpium Iuliarum: A Late Antique Defensive System in the Northern Adriatic and Eastern Alps -- ‚Frühbyzantinische Befestigungen' als Siedlungsgrundeinheit im Illyricum des 6. Jahrhunderts -- Regionally Confined Phenomena -- Introduction -- The Fortifications of Iron Age Oppida in Southern Drôme (France) and the Control of their Territories -- The City Walls of the Andrian Colonies: Tradition and Regionalism in Military Architecture -- Das Befestigungssystem der lelego-karischen Stadt Pedasa -- The Fortifications at Halikarnassos and Priene: Some Regional Characteristics? -- Polygonalmauern in Mittelitalien und ihre Rezeption in mittel- und spätrepublikanischer Zeit -- Chronologiediskurse zu den punischen und römischen Stadtmauern Sardiniens -- Graeco-Roman Poliorketics and the Development of Military Architecture in Antiochia Hippos of the Decapolis as a Test Case -- Les fortifications kouchanes en Bactriane -- The Fortifications of Athens and New Field Research -- Introduction -- The Middle Bronze Age Fortifications on the Aspis Hill at Argos -- Die archaische Stadtmauer von Korinth -- Recent Research in Palaiomanina, Acarnania -- Neue Forschungen in Eryx: Die Ausgrabungen an der Stadtmauer und die Topographie der Stadt -- About the Meaning of Fortifications in Late Antique Cities: The Case of Athens in Context -- The Benizeli Mansion Excavation: Latest Evidence on the Post-Herulian Fortification Wall in Athens -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781785701313
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Frederiksen, Rune Focus on Fortifications : New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East Havertown : Oxbow Books,c2016 ISBN 9781785701313
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