Author: Christopher John RattéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Lydian Masonry and Monumental Architecture at Sardis
Author: Christopher John RattéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
Author: Elspeth R. M. DusinberrePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521810715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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Lydian Architecture
Author: Christopher John RattéPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674060609
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This richly illustrated volume examines monuments of Sardis and environs in the context of contemporary developments in Lydia and throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. It illuminates traditions of Anatolian kingship, technological exchange between Lydia and Greece and the Near East, and the origins of Persian imperial architecture.
Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia
Author: Elspeth R. M. DusinberrePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316347885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BCE) was a vast and complex sociopolitical structure that encompassed much of modern-day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and included two dozen distinct peoples who spoke different languages, worshipped different deities, lived in different environments and had widely differing social customs. This book offers a radical new approach to understanding the Achaemenid Persian Empire and imperialism more generally. Through a wide array of textual, visual and archaeological material, Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre shows how the rulers of the Empire constructed a system flexible enough to provide for the needs of different peoples within the confines of a single imperial authority and highlights the variability in response. This book examines the dynamic tensions between authority and autonomy across the Empire, providing a valuable new way of considering imperial structure and development.
New Approaches to Old Stones
Author: Yorke M. RowanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134949715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Ground stone artefacts were widely used in food production in prehistory. However, the archaeological community has widely neglected the dataset of ground stone artefacts until now. 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a theoretical and methodological analysis of the archaeological data pertaining to ground stone tools. The essays draw on a range of case studies - from the Levant, Egypt, Crete, Anatolia, Mexico and North America - to examine ground stone technologies. From medieval Islamic stone cooking vessels and late Minoan stone vases, to the use of stone in ritual and as a symbol of luxury, 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a radical reassessment of the impact of ground-stone artefacts on technological change, production and exchange.
Tumulus as Sema
Author: Olivier HenryPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110385457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1329
Book Description
Tumuli were the most widespread form of monumental tombs in the ancient world. Their impact on landscape, their allurement as well as their symbolic reference to a glorious past can still be felt today. The need of supra-regional and cross-disciplinary examination of this unique phenomenon led to an international conference in Istanbul in 2009. With almost 50 scholars from 12 different countries participating, the conference entitled TumulIstanbul created links between fields of research which would not have had the opportunity to meet otherwise. The proceedings of TumulIstanbul revolve around the question of the symbolic significance of burial mounds in the 1st millennium BC in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black-Sea regions, providing further insight into Kurgan neighbours from Eurasia.
The City of Sardis
Author: Crawford Hallock GreenewaltPublisher: Harvard Art Museum (Acc)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Distinguished authors explore the topographic landscape and historic architecture of the city in western Turkey that was captial of the Lydian Kingdom.
Ancient Building Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background
Author: G.R.H. WrightPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004477535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The wealth of excavation of ancient buildings in the past 50 years and the resulting flood of publications has created a demand for a survey of building practice in antiquity. This two-volume work deals with the techniques of setting together the fabric of ancient buildings: the manual and mechanical operations involved; the materials, tools and equipment used. "Ancient" here means from very first beginnings (origins) to the end of Late Antiquity (i.e. about 600 A.D.); as manifested geographically in the Old World of Europe and the Middle East (not sub-Saharan Africa, Further Asia, the Far East or New World). Building (the product and the process) is limited to architectural building and looks at the technology of civil engineering only where it introduces novelties. Technology here means the system of techniques used in the process of building construction rather than the science or theory of building. The 10 chapters of this first volume are intended to give a general perspective of animal building in the light of evolutionary biology, then of building in the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Levanto-Aegean, Achaemenid, Greek, Roman, Late Antique -Early Christian / Byzantine / Sassanian contexts (with a weighting towards the lesser known prehistoric beginnings and late antique end). The second volume will focus on the technical details: materials of construction, structural systems, principles of construction and forms of construction.
Satrapal Sardis
Author: Elspeth R. M. DusinberrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East
Author: John J. CollinsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This collection of essays contains a state of the field discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the ancient world. While it does not cover the entire ancient world, it does focus in on the key revolts of the pre-Roman imperial world. Regardless of the exact sequence, it was an undeniable fact that the area we now call the Middle East witnessed a sequence of extensive empires in the second half of the last millennium BCE. At first, these spread from East to West (Assyria, Babylon, Persia). Then after the campaigns of Alexander, the direction of conquest was reversed. Despite the sense of inevitability, or of divinely ordained destiny, that one might get from the passages that speak of a sequence of world-empires, imperial rule was always contested. The essays in this volume consider some of the ways in which imperial rule was resisted and challenged, in the Assyrian, Persian, and Hellenistic (Seleucid and Ptolemaic) empires. Not every uprising considered in this volume would qualify as a revolution by this definition. Revolution indeed was on the far end of a spectrum of social responses to empire building, from resistance to unrest, to grain riots and peasant rebellions. The editors offer the volume as a means of furthering discussions on the nature and the drivers of resistance and revolution, the motivations for them as well as a summary of the events that have left their mark on our historical sources long after the dust had settled.