RT Book
T1 Cities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East
A1 Harmanşah, Ömür 1971-
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/726847488
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HT147.M628
SN 9781107027947
K1 Cities and towns : Middle East : History
K1 Collective Memory : Middle East