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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"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 (ca. 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Technological Style, Architectonic Culture, and the Spaces of Craft-KnowledgeOrthostats: A Monumental Finish for Weathering Walls; Kalhu: Technologies of Stone, Architectural Innovation, and Visual Culture; Upright Stones: The Long-Term History of an Architectural Technique; Appropriation of Representationality: The Transition to the Early Iron Age in North Syria; Tukult-Apil-Earra (Tiglath-Pileser) I: Middle Assyrian Orthostats and the Idea of Commemoration; Concluding Remarks; six Cities, Place, and Desire; Cities and Desire; Desirous Places; Imagined Cities. |
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From Architectural Space to Archaeologies of Landscape and PlaceNotes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Middle East -- History.
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Cities and towns. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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Collective memory -- Middle East.
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Collective memory. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Harmanşah, Ömür. Cities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107027947 (DLC) 2012037828 (OCoLC)811724259 |
| ISBN |
9781107314498 (electronic book) |
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1107314496 (electronic book) |
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9781139227216 (electronic book) |
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1139227211 (electronic book) |
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9781107308947 |
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1107308941 |
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9781107027947 |
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1107027942 |
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9781299257320 |
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1299257321 |
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9781107306745 (EBL) |
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1107306744 |
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