The fabric of cities : aspects of urbanism, urban topography and society in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome /

The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, stre...

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مؤلفون آخرون: May, Natalie N., Steinert, Ulrike.

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Boston : Leiden, [2013]

سلاسل: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 68.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.

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رقم الطلب: HT147.M53 F33 2013

جدول المحتويات:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society? /
  • Natalie N. May and Ulrike Steinert
  • The Cost of Cosmogony: Ethical Reflections on Resource Extraction, Monumental Architecture and Urbanism in the Sumerian Literary Tradition /
  • J. Cale Johnson
  • Gates and Their Functions in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel /
  • Natalie N. May
  • City Streets: Reflections on Urban Society in the Cuneiform Sources of the Second and First Millennium bce /
  • Ulrike Steinert
  • The Babylonian Cities: Investigating Urban Morphology Using Texts and Archaeology /
  • Heather D. Baker
  • From bābānu to bētānu, Looking for Spaces in Late Assyrian Palaces /
  • David Kertai
  • "Ich bin die Grenze der Agora." Zum kognitiven Stadtbild der Athener in klassischer Zeit /
  • Jan Stenger
  • Religiöse Topographie Roms: Der Aventin Innerhalb der Stadt und ausserhalb des Pomeriums /
  • Darja Šterbenc Erker
  • Index.