Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Abbreviations xv
Preface xvii
1 Introduction 1
Cities, Imagination, and Memory in the Ancient Near East 1
Building the City 3
Cities, Landscape, and the Long Term 6
The Structure of the Book 10
2 landscapes of change: cities,politics, and memory 15
Introduction: Cities and Moving Landscapes 15
"The Rock Was Untouched": The Ideology and Rhetorics of Landscapes 25
Contemporary Approaches to Archaeological Landscapes 28
Upper Mesopotamian Environment during the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition 31
The Evidence from Regional Surveys 35
Urbanization and Commemoration in Syro-Hittite Landscapes 40
Moving Landscapes : Shifts in the Geography of Power 45
Rock Reliefs, New Cities and Colonized Landscapes Making Places in Malizi/Melid 50
Settling Agro-Pastoralists,Moving Capitals 67
3 The land of assur: the making of assyrian landscapes 72
Introduction : Assyrian Landscapes on the Move 72
Cities, Landscapes, and Political Actors in a Changing World 74
Building the Frontiers: Middle Assyrian Foundations in the Jazira and the Upper Tigris Basin 76
Beyond Assur: The Making of Assyria in a New Landscape 81
Founding Kalhu 89
Assyrian Rock Reliefs, Landscape Commemoration, and the Inscription of Place 93
Conclusions: Moving Landscapes and Place-Making Practices 100
4 City and the festival: monuments, urban space, and spatial narratives 102
Introduction: Ceremony, Performance, and Building in the City 102
The Production of Urban Space 104
The Upper Mesopotamian City: Aspects of Planning and Urban Formation 108
The Foundation of Kalhu : Narrativity and Performance 114
Spatial Narratives : The Urban Landscape of Kalhu 119
Obelisk and the Stele: The Ritualization of Public Space 130
"These Gates I Orthostated" : Monuments, Memory and the Making of Ceremonial Space at Karkamis 134
Upright stones and building stories: architectural technologies and the poetics of urban space 153
Technological Style, Architectonic Culture, and the Spaces of Craft-Knowledge 153
Orthostats: A Monumental Finish for Weathering Walls 157
Kalhu: Technologies of Stone, Architectural Innovation, and Visual Culture 162
Upright Stones: The Long-Term History of an Architectural Technique 168
Appropriation of Representationality: The Transition to the Early Iron Age in North Syria 180
Tukulti-Apil-ESarra (Tiglath-Pileser) I: Middle Assyrian Orthostats and the Idea of Commemoration 183
Concluding Remarks 185
Cities, place, and desire 189
Cities and Desire 189
Desirous Places 190
Imagined Cities
From Architectural Space to Archaeologies of Landscape and Place 193
Notes 197
Bibliography 225
Index 343