Overview

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 travellers 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 analysing those aspects of fortifications, many of them with years of experience in field-work 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) will also appear 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.

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Author:   Rune Frederiksen ,  Silke Muth ,  Peter Schneider ,  Mike Schnelle
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 27.50cm
Weight:   2.821kg
ISBN:  

9781785701313

ISBN 10:   1785701312
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   14 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Rune Frederiksen, Silke Muth, 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 Sebastien Rey Mari and the Development of Complex Defensive Systems in Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History............................................................................................ ?? Sebastien 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 Marib and Sirwah (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 economie de la construction des fortifications en pierre: methodes 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 Sag and Ertunc Denktas The Fortifications of Larisa (Buruncuk) Reconsidered........................................ ?? Ayse Dalyanci-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 Muth Functions and Semantics of Fortifications: An Introduction ........................... ?? Heinz-Jurgen Beste The Castle Euryalos of Syracuse............................................................................ ?? Jeanine Abdul Massih and Mathilde Gelin 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? Vorlaufige 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 Bottcher-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 Bulow 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: Archaologischer Befund und Schriftquellen.................... ?? Tymon de Haas and Peter Attema The Pontine Region Under the Early Republic: A Contested Landscape......... ?? Christian Winkle Romisch-italische Stadtmauern der Mittleren Republik: Funktion und Semantik. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung zu Livius................................... ?? Isabelle Pimouguet-Pedarros and Nevzat Cevik Les fortifications de Myra dans la defense 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 Etudier l'organisation defensive d'une region et son evolution: pour une archeologie historique des fortifications. Question de methode..................... ?? Matthieu Guintrand Les fortifications dans le systeme defensif lacedemonien a l'epoque classique................................................................................................... ?? Yannis D. Nakas Isolated Towers in the Fortification Network of Ancient Molossia: A Case Study............................................................................................................. ?? Pierre Moret Les tours isolees de l'Hispanie romaine: postes militaires ou maisons fortes ?....................................................................................... ?? Emine Sokmen Some Preliminary Results Regarding the Mithridatic Defence System............ ?? Douglas Underwood City Walls as Regional and Imperial Strategy? The Case of South Languedoc....................................................................................................... ?? Josip Visnjic Claustra Alpium Iuliarum: A Late Antique Defensive System in the Northern Adriatic and Eastern Alps........................................................................ ?? Mihailo Milinkovic ,Fruhbyzantinische Befestigungen` als Siedlungsgrundeinheit im Illyricum des 6. Jahrhunderts................................................................................... ?? Regionally Confined Phenomena Silke Muth Regionally Confined Phenomena........................................................ ?? Stephan G. Schmid, Caroline Huguenot and Katrin Kermas The Fortifications of Iron Age Oppida in Southern Drome (France) and the Control of Their Territories..................................................................................... ?? Keven Ouellet The City Walls of the Andrian Colonies: Tradition and Regionalism in Military Architecture........................................................................................... ?? Britta OEzen-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 spatrepublikanischer Zeit....................................................................................... ?? Chiara Blasetti Fantauzzi Chronologiediskurse zu den punischen und romischen 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 Segolene 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...................................................................................................................................... ??

Reviews

...offers an impressive amount of new ideas, insights and findings... this second volume of the series as well as the first may not be missed from any library. -- Hans Lohmann * Journal of Greek Archaeology *

…offers an impressive amount of new ideas, insights and findings… this second volume of the series as well as the first may not be missed from any library.” * Journal of Greek Archaeology * In der Gesamtschau bietet der Band einen ‘bunten Strauß’ von Beiträgen, die am Ende den aktuellen Stand und die jüngsten Stränge der Befestigungsforschung in überaus gelungener Weise widerspiegeln und in vielerlei Hinsicht Anregungen für die aktuellen wie für künftige Diskussionen geben. * Gnomon * A rich and interesting assembalge of papers and material from established and younger scholars, many with years of experience in the field, in a very hefty volume. * Ancient West & East *

Author Information

Dr Rune Frederiksen is a classical archaeologist and since 2010 the director of the Danish Institute at Athens. He did his PhD at the Copenhagen Polis Centre on Archaic Greek city walls, published in 2011, and was the Sackler Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford 2004-7 researching its collection of plaster casts of ancient sculpture. Other research interests include early Greek urbanization, Greek and Roman art and architecture, and the history of collecting in Europe since Antiquity. Dr Silke Muth is a classical archaeologist. She did her PhD at the Free University of Berlin on the topography and town planning of ancient Messene and was as a lecturer there for five years, doing research on doing research on the city walls of Messene and Zeugma. Currently she is working on the symbolic functions of Greek and Roman fortifications as a research fellow at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens with funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Further research interests include Greek and Roman urbanism and interdisciplinary approaches between archaeology and ancient history. Dr Peter Irenaus Schneider is a Bauforscher specialized in archaeology. He conducted several field projects in Turkey (Hasankeyf, Miletos) and Saudi-Arabia (Tayma), organized a number of conferences and edited volumes on ancient architecture. Currently he is visiting professor for Building Archaeology and Conservation of Sites at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg. Mike Schnelle is a Bauforscher specialized in archaeology. Mr Schnelle has got extensive experience as a field archaeologist and is working on a PhD focussed on the Sabaean fortifications of the cities of Sirwah and Marib in Yemen. Since 2012 he is research associate at the Sanaa Branch of the German Archaeological Institute and he is currently involved in several projects of the Branch in Sirwah, Marib and Tan'im in Yemen and Yeha and Hawelti in Ethiopia.

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