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100			_aHarmansah, Omur _954038
245			_aCities and the shaping of memory in the ancient near East
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2015
300			_axx,351p.
505			_aContents 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
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