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Focus on Fortifications: New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
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Mike Schnelle (editor),
Rune Frederiksen (editor),
Peter I. Schneider (editor) and
Silke Muth (editor)
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Publisher
Oxbow Books Ltd
Publication date
May 31, 2016
Pages
732
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781785701313
ISBN-10
1785701312
Dimensions
2 by 8.50 by 11 in.
Weight
6.15 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$110.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and scholars from the very beginning of research on antiquity from the late 18th century onwards, the architectural, economic, logistical, political, urban and other social aspects of fortifications have been somewhat overlooked and underestimated by scholarship in the 20th century. The book presents the research of a new generation of scholars who have been analyzing those aspects of fortifications, many of them with years of experience in fieldwork on city walls. Much new evidence and a fresh look at this important category of built structure is now made available, and the publication will be of interest not only to the field of ancient architecture, but also to other sub-disciplines of archaeology and ancient history.
The papers were presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012, and they all present material and discuss topics under seven headings that represent the most central themes in the study of fortification in antiquity: the origins of fortification, physical surroundings and building technique, function and semantics, historical context, the fortification of regions and regionally confined phenomena, the fortifications of Athens and new field research.
The book is Volume 2 in the new series Fokus Fortifikation Studies, created by the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. The topics included have been identified by the network over many previous conferences and workshops as being the most important and as needing research and discussion beyond the network members. Volume 1 in the series, Ancient Fortifications: a compendium of theory and practice (Oxbow Books) appeared in 2015 and together the two volumes bring the field of fortification studies up-to-date and will be an essential resource for many years to come.
Table of Contents
Rune Frederiksen, Silke Müth, Peter Schneider and Mike Schnelle
Preface
Introduction
Pierre Leriche
What Does Studying Ancient Fortifications Mean?
Origins of Fortifications
Rune Frederiksen and Mike Schnelle
Introduction
Pascal Butterlin and Sébastien Rey
Mari and the Development of Complex Defensive Systems in Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History
Sébastien Rey
Mesopotamian Poliorcetics Before Assyria: Genesis of the Art of Fortification and Siege Warfare
Nathan Morello
Building the Frontier: Frontier Fortifications in the Assyrian Empire
Tomas Alusik
Fortifications of prehistoric Crete: the current state of research
Stefanie Hubert
Late MH and Early LH Fortifications: Some Considerations on the Role of Burials and Grave Monuments at City Gates
Gabriele Cifani
The Fortifications of Archaic Rome: Social and Political Significance
Baptiste Vergnaud
Fortifications of Central Anatolia in the Early First Millennium BC
Mike Schnelle
Origins of Sabaean fortifications of the early 1st millennium BC – some suggestions to the examples of the cities Mārib and Ṣirwāḥ (Yemen)
Physical Surroundings and Technique: The Building Experience
Peter de Staebler
Physical Surroundings, Technique, and Building Experience: The State of Research in the Network Fokus Fortifikation
Jean-Claude Bessac
Techniques et économie de la construction des fortifications en pierre: méthodes et perspectives
Tobias B. H. Helms and Jan-Waalke Meyer
Fortifying a major early Bronze Age centre: The construction and maintenance of Tell Chuera’s (northern Syria) outer defence works
Turgut Saner, Kaan Sağ and Ertunç Denktaş
The Fortifications of Larisa (Buruncuk) Reconsidered
Ayşe Dalyancı-Berns and Agnes Henning
The Acropolis Wall on Monte Croccia (South Italy). Building a Lucanian Fortification: the Economical and Representative Utilization of the Landscape
Function and Semantics
Silke Müth
Functions and Semantics of Fortifications: An Introduction
Heinz-Jürgen Beste
The Castle Euryalos of Syracuse
Mathilde Gelin, Jeanine Abdul Massih and Shaker Al Shbib
Fortifications and Town Planning in Kyrrhos: its Hellenistic origin and its evolution
Wolfram Martini
Form, Funktion und Bedeutung der Stadtmauern von Perge in Pamphylien
Ute Lohner-Urban and Peter Scherrer
Hellenistische Prunktore – ein wissenschaftlicher Irrtum? Vorläufige Grabungsergebnisse vom Osttor von Side aus der Kampagne 2012
Klaus Freyberger
The Function and Significance of Fortified Sanctuary Precincts in the Eastern Mediterranean World during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Timm Radt
Fortified Palaces and Residences in Hellenistic Times: The Upper Castle on Mount Karasis and Other Examples
Jessica Böttcher-Ebers
Zur semantischen Funktion des Bogens im Stadttorbau. Ein Vergleich zwischen republikanischen und hellenistischen Stadttoren
Saskia Stevens
Candentia Moenia. The Symbolism of Roman City Walls
Melanie Jonasch
The fortification of secondary settlements in late Roman Gaul
Gerda Sommer von Bülow
The Two Defensive Systems of the Late Roman Imperial Palace of Romuliana-Gamzigrad (Dacia Ripensis)
Historical Context
Eric Laufer
Antike Befestigungsbauten im historischen Kontext. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag des Netzwerks ,Fokus Fortifikation‘
Pierre Ducrey
Defence, Attack and the Fate of the Defeated: Reappraising the Role of City-walls
Michael Kerschner
Neue Forschungen zu den Befestigungen von Ephesos in archaischer und klassischer Zeit: Archäologischer Befund und Schriftquellen
Tymon de Haas and Peter Attema
The Pontine Region Under the Early Republic, A Contested Landscape
Christian Winkle
Römisch-italische Stadtmauern der Mittleren Republik: Funktion und Semantik. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung zu Livius
Isabelle Pimouguet-Pédarros and Nevzat Çevik
Les fortifications de Myra dans la défense de la Lycie orientale
Caterina Parigi
The Athenian Walls in the 1st Century BC
Catharine Hof
The City Wall of Resafa/Sergiupolis (Syria): The Transition of a Late Roman Representative and Permeable Town Wall over a Sturdy Fortification to an Introverted Early Islamic Haram Enclosure
The Fortification of Regions
Sylvian Fachard
Regional Fortifications and the Fortification of Regions
Claire Balandier
Étudier l’organisation défensive d’une région et son évolution : pour une archéologie historique des fortifications. Question de méthode
Matthieu Guintrand
Les fortifications dans le système défensif lacédémonien à l’époque classique
Yannis D. Nakas
Isolated Towers in the Fortification Network of Ancient Molossia: A Case Study
Pierre Moret
Les tours isolées de l’Hispanie romaine : postes militaires ou maisons fortes?
Emine Sökmen
Some Preliminary Results Regarding the Mithridatic Defence System
Douglas Underwood
City Walls as Regional and Imperial Strategy? The Case of South Languedoc
Josip Višnjić
Claustra Alpium Iuliarum: A Late Antique Defensive System in the
Northern Adriatic and Eastern Alps
Mihailo Milinković
,Frühbyzantinische Befestigungen‘ als Siedlungsgrundeinheit im Illyricum des 6. Jahrhunderts
Regionally Confined Phenomena
Silke Müth
Regionally Confined Phenomena
Stephan G. Schmid, Caroline Huguenot and Katrin Kermas
The Fortifications of Iron Age Oppida in Southern Drôme (France) and the Control of Their Territories
Keven Ouellet
The City Walls of the Andrian Colonies: Tradition and Regionalism in Military Architecture
Britta Özen-Kleine
Das Befestigungssystem der lelego-karischen Stadt Pedasa
Poul Pedersen and Ulrich Ruppe
The Fortifications at Halikarnassos and Priene: Some Regional Characteristics?
Sophie Helas
Polygonalmauern in Mittelitalien und ihre Rezeption in mittel- und spätrepublikanischer Zeit
Chiara Blasetti Fantauzzi
Chronologiediskurse zu den punischen und römischen Stadtmauern Sardiniens
Michael Eisenberg
Graeco-Roman Poliorketics and the Development of Military Architecture in Antiochia Hippos of the Decapolis as a Test Case
Pierre Leriche and Ségolène de Pontbriand
Les Fortifications Kouchanes en Bactriane
The Fortifications of Athens and New Field Research
Rune Frederiksen
Introduction
Anna Philippa-Touchais
The Middle Bronze Age Fortifications on the Aspis Hill at Argos
Konstantinos Kissas and Vassilios Tasinos
Die archaische Stadtmauer von Korinth
Vassilios Lambrinoudakis and Evangelos Kazolias
Recent research in Palaiomanina, Acarnania
Salvatore de Vincenzo
Neue Forschungen in Eryx: Die Ausgrabungen an der Stadtmauer und
die Topographie der Stadt
Isabella Baldini and Elisa Bazzechi
About the Meaning of Fortifications in Late Antique Cities: the Case
of Athens in Context
Nikos Tsoniotis
The Benizeli Mansion Excavation: Latest Evidence on the Post-Herulian
Fortification Wall in Athens
Index
The papers were presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012, and they all present material and discuss topics under seven headings that represent the most central themes in the study of fortification in antiquity: the origins of fortification, physical surroundings and building technique, function and semantics, historical context, the fortification of regions and regionally confined phenomena, the fortifications of Athens and new field research.
The book is Volume 2 in the new series Fokus Fortifikation Studies, created by the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. The topics included have been identified by the network over many previous conferences and workshops as being the most important and as needing research and discussion beyond the network members. Volume 1 in the series, Ancient Fortifications: a compendium of theory and practice (Oxbow Books) appeared in 2015 and together the two volumes bring the field of fortification studies up-to-date and will be an essential resource for many years to come.
Table of Contents
Rune Frederiksen, Silke Müth, Peter Schneider and Mike Schnelle
Preface
Introduction
Pierre Leriche
What Does Studying Ancient Fortifications Mean?
Origins of Fortifications
Rune Frederiksen and Mike Schnelle
Introduction
Pascal Butterlin and Sébastien Rey
Mari and the Development of Complex Defensive Systems in Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History
Sébastien Rey
Mesopotamian Poliorcetics Before Assyria: Genesis of the Art of Fortification and Siege Warfare
Nathan Morello
Building the Frontier: Frontier Fortifications in the Assyrian Empire
Tomas Alusik
Fortifications of prehistoric Crete: the current state of research
Stefanie Hubert
Late MH and Early LH Fortifications: Some Considerations on the Role of Burials and Grave Monuments at City Gates
Gabriele Cifani
The Fortifications of Archaic Rome: Social and Political Significance
Baptiste Vergnaud
Fortifications of Central Anatolia in the Early First Millennium BC
Mike Schnelle
Origins of Sabaean fortifications of the early 1st millennium BC – some suggestions to the examples of the cities Mārib and Ṣirwāḥ (Yemen)
Physical Surroundings and Technique: The Building Experience
Peter de Staebler
Physical Surroundings, Technique, and Building Experience: The State of Research in the Network Fokus Fortifikation
Jean-Claude Bessac
Techniques et économie de la construction des fortifications en pierre: méthodes et perspectives
Tobias B. H. Helms and Jan-Waalke Meyer
Fortifying a major early Bronze Age centre: The construction and maintenance of Tell Chuera’s (northern Syria) outer defence works
Turgut Saner, Kaan Sağ and Ertunç Denktaş
The Fortifications of Larisa (Buruncuk) Reconsidered
Ayşe Dalyancı-Berns and Agnes Henning
The Acropolis Wall on Monte Croccia (South Italy). Building a Lucanian Fortification: the Economical and Representative Utilization of the Landscape
Function and Semantics
Silke Müth
Functions and Semantics of Fortifications: An Introduction
Heinz-Jürgen Beste
The Castle Euryalos of Syracuse
Mathilde Gelin, Jeanine Abdul Massih and Shaker Al Shbib
Fortifications and Town Planning in Kyrrhos: its Hellenistic origin and its evolution
Wolfram Martini
Form, Funktion und Bedeutung der Stadtmauern von Perge in Pamphylien
Ute Lohner-Urban and Peter Scherrer
Hellenistische Prunktore – ein wissenschaftlicher Irrtum? Vorläufige Grabungsergebnisse vom Osttor von Side aus der Kampagne 2012
Klaus Freyberger
The Function and Significance of Fortified Sanctuary Precincts in the Eastern Mediterranean World during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Timm Radt
Fortified Palaces and Residences in Hellenistic Times: The Upper Castle on Mount Karasis and Other Examples
Jessica Böttcher-Ebers
Zur semantischen Funktion des Bogens im Stadttorbau. Ein Vergleich zwischen republikanischen und hellenistischen Stadttoren
Saskia Stevens
Candentia Moenia. The Symbolism of Roman City Walls
Melanie Jonasch
The fortification of secondary settlements in late Roman Gaul
Gerda Sommer von Bülow
The Two Defensive Systems of the Late Roman Imperial Palace of Romuliana-Gamzigrad (Dacia Ripensis)
Historical Context
Eric Laufer
Antike Befestigungsbauten im historischen Kontext. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag des Netzwerks ,Fokus Fortifikation‘
Pierre Ducrey
Defence, Attack and the Fate of the Defeated: Reappraising the Role of City-walls
Michael Kerschner
Neue Forschungen zu den Befestigungen von Ephesos in archaischer und klassischer Zeit: Archäologischer Befund und Schriftquellen
Tymon de Haas and Peter Attema
The Pontine Region Under the Early Republic, A Contested Landscape
Christian Winkle
Römisch-italische Stadtmauern der Mittleren Republik: Funktion und Semantik. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung zu Livius
Isabelle Pimouguet-Pédarros and Nevzat Çevik
Les fortifications de Myra dans la défense de la Lycie orientale
Caterina Parigi
The Athenian Walls in the 1st Century BC
Catharine Hof
The City Wall of Resafa/Sergiupolis (Syria): The Transition of a Late Roman Representative and Permeable Town Wall over a Sturdy Fortification to an Introverted Early Islamic Haram Enclosure
The Fortification of Regions
Sylvian Fachard
Regional Fortifications and the Fortification of Regions
Claire Balandier
Étudier l’organisation défensive d’une région et son évolution : pour une archéologie historique des fortifications. Question de méthode
Matthieu Guintrand
Les fortifications dans le système défensif lacédémonien à l’époque classique
Yannis D. Nakas
Isolated Towers in the Fortification Network of Ancient Molossia: A Case Study
Pierre Moret
Les tours isolées de l’Hispanie romaine : postes militaires ou maisons fortes?
Emine Sökmen
Some Preliminary Results Regarding the Mithridatic Defence System
Douglas Underwood
City Walls as Regional and Imperial Strategy? The Case of South Languedoc
Josip Višnjić
Claustra Alpium Iuliarum: A Late Antique Defensive System in the
Northern Adriatic and Eastern Alps
Mihailo Milinković
,Frühbyzantinische Befestigungen‘ als Siedlungsgrundeinheit im Illyricum des 6. Jahrhunderts
Regionally Confined Phenomena
Silke Müth
Regionally Confined Phenomena
Stephan G. Schmid, Caroline Huguenot and Katrin Kermas
The Fortifications of Iron Age Oppida in Southern Drôme (France) and the Control of Their Territories
Keven Ouellet
The City Walls of the Andrian Colonies: Tradition and Regionalism in Military Architecture
Britta Özen-Kleine
Das Befestigungssystem der lelego-karischen Stadt Pedasa
Poul Pedersen and Ulrich Ruppe
The Fortifications at Halikarnassos and Priene: Some Regional Characteristics?
Sophie Helas
Polygonalmauern in Mittelitalien und ihre Rezeption in mittel- und spätrepublikanischer Zeit
Chiara Blasetti Fantauzzi
Chronologiediskurse zu den punischen und römischen Stadtmauern Sardiniens
Michael Eisenberg
Graeco-Roman Poliorketics and the Development of Military Architecture in Antiochia Hippos of the Decapolis as a Test Case
Pierre Leriche and Ségolène de Pontbriand
Les Fortifications Kouchanes en Bactriane
The Fortifications of Athens and New Field Research
Rune Frederiksen
Introduction
Anna Philippa-Touchais
The Middle Bronze Age Fortifications on the Aspis Hill at Argos
Konstantinos Kissas and Vassilios Tasinos
Die archaische Stadtmauer von Korinth
Vassilios Lambrinoudakis and Evangelos Kazolias
Recent research in Palaiomanina, Acarnania
Salvatore de Vincenzo
Neue Forschungen in Eryx: Die Ausgrabungen an der Stadtmauer und
die Topographie der Stadt
Isabella Baldini and Elisa Bazzechi
About the Meaning of Fortifications in Late Antique Cities: the Case
of Athens in Context
Nikos Tsoniotis
The Benizeli Mansion Excavation: Latest Evidence on the Post-Herulian
Fortification Wall in Athens
Index
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About: With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years.
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