04002nam 2200721 450 991045336300332120200520144314.090-04-26234-210.1163/9789004262348(CKB)2550000001138681(EBL)1513966(OCoLC)862050343(SSID)ssj0001040552(PQKBManifestationID)11595578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040552(PQKBWorkID)11001651(PQKB)11105493(MiAaPQ)EBC1513966(nllekb)BRILL9789004262348(PPN)178890723(Au-PeEL)EBL1513966(CaPaEBR)ebr10792269(CaONFJC)MIL538351(EXLCZ)99255000000113868120131206h20132014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Fabric of cities aspects of urbanism, urban topography and society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome /edited by Natalie N. May and Ulrike SteinertLeiden :BRILL,[2013]©20141 online resource (268 p.)Culture and history of the ancient Near EastIncludes index.90-04-26233-4 1-306-07100-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources as well as art. The topics treated in this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency in the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between public and private in Assyrian palaces, the connection between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to talk about urban space.Culture and History of the Ancient Near East68.Cities and townsMiddle EastHistoryCities and townsRomeHistoryCivilization, ClassicalUrbanizationMiddle EastHistoryUrbanizationRomeHistoryElectronic books.Cities and townsHistory.Cities and townsHistory.Civilization, Classical.UrbanizationHistory.UrbanizationHistory.307.760956May Natalie N968531Steinert Ulrike968532MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453363003321The Fabric of cities2199932UNINA