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From Edessa to Urfa the fortification of the citadel.
From Edessa to Urfa: the Fortification of the Citadel is the outcome of an archaeological research project focused on a specific monumental area in the city of Urfa: its citadel. Urfa is better known to the general reader by its ancient name, Edessa. Three seasons of fieldwork were carried out (2014...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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ARCHAEOPRESS,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Abstract ; Özet (translated by O. Usta) ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Part 1 The fortification of the citadel: the written sources ; Building and re-building: a summary of events ; Chapter 2: Edessa and its fortifications in Byzantine times (6th-11th centuries) (N. Zorzi) ; Chapter 3: The citadels and the city walls in the Syriac sources (E. Fiori) ; Chapter 4: Edessa in Armenian sources (T.L. Andrews) ; Chapter 5: The citadel of al-Ruhā' in the Arabic sources: an overview ; Chapter 6: The fortifications of Edessa in medieval Latin sources (D. Pringle) ; Chapter 7: Ruhā in the Persian sources: an elusive presence (S. Cristoforetti) ; Chapter 8: The citadel of Urfa in the Ottoman written sources (O. Usta) ; Part 2 The inscriptions from the citadel ; Chapter 9: Notes on some Greek inscriptions from Edessa (N. Zorzi) ; Chapter 10: The Arabic inscriptions of the citadel of al-Ruhā' (Urfa/Şanlıurfa) (R. Giunta) ; Part 3 The fortification of the citadel: the material evidence ; The archaeological analysis ; Chapter 11: The material evidence: Period 1 (post 3rd-6th centuries?) ; Chapter 12: The material evidence: Period 2 (post 6th-11th centuries?) ; Chapter 13: The material evidence: Period 3 (late 11th-12th centuries?) ; Chapter 14: The material evidence: Period 4 (13th-14th centuries) ; Chapter 15: The material evidence: Period 5 (15th century) ; Chapter 16: The material evidence: Period 6 (16th century) ; Chapter 17: The material evidence: Period 7 (17th century) ; Chapter 18: The material evidence: Periods 8 (18th-19th centuries) and 9 (post Ottoman to the present) ; Chapter 19: The masonry typology (with Technical Notes by J.-Cl. Bessac) ; Chapter 20: Conclusions ; Plates ; Appendix ; Bibliography.