Tell Ahmar on the Syrian Euphrates from Chalcolithic village to Assyrian provincial capital / Guy Bunnens ; with contributions by Cristina Baccarin, Vanessa Boschloos, Deborah Giannessi, Elizabeth Hendrix, Andrew S. Jamieson, Adelheid Otto, Silvia Perini, Arlette Roobaert, John M. Russell.
| Author/creator | Bunnens, Guy |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2022. |
| Description | vii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bunnens, Guy. |
| Other author/creator | Boschloos, Vanessa. |
| Other author/creator | Giannessi, Deborah. |
| Other author/creator | Otto, Adelheid. |
| Other author/creator | Baccarin, Cristina. |
| Other author/creator | Roobaert, Arlette. |
| Portion of title | From Chalcolithic village to Assyrian provincial capital |
| Partial contents | The site and its exploration -- Tell Ahmar from its origins to the end of the second millennium : East meets West on the Euphrates -- Tell Ahmar between Luwians, Aramaeans and Assyrians : birth of a regional capital -- Tell Ahmar in the Assyrian empire : birth of an imperial koine. |
| Abstract | Tell Ahmar - also known as Masuwari, Til Barsib and Kar-Shalmaneser in the first millennium BCE - was first inhabited in the sixth millennium, during the Ubaid period, and progressively developed to become a regional center and, in the eighth and seventh centuries, a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire. Remains from the third millennium (a temple and a funerary complex), the second millennium (an administrative complex and well-preserved houses) and the first millennium (an Assyrian palace and elite residences) are particularly impressive. The book offers an archaeological and historical synthesis of the results obtained by the excavations of François Thureau-Dangin (1929-1931) and by the more recent excavations of the universities of Melbourne (1988-1999) and Liège (2000-2010). It presents a comprehensive and diachronic view of the evolution of the site, which, by its position on the Euphrates at an important crossroads of ancient communication routes, was at the heart of a game of cultural and political interference between Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean world and Asia Minor. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022935313 |
| ISBN | 1789258383 (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781789258387 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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