Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East

Auteur: Harmansah, OEmur (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East. City building was an important component of how Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers of the Early Iron Age (c.1200-850 BCE) constructed their political identity. A unique contribution in its field, it brings together architecture and cultural history with the study of antiquity in the Near East.
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This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East. City building was an important component of how Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers of the Early Iron Age (c.1200-850 BCE) constructed their political identity. A unique contribution in its field, it brings together architecture and cultural history with the study of antiquity in the Near East.
ISBN / EAN 9781107027947
Auteur Harmansah, OEmur (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Editeur Cambridge University Press