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SoSe 15: Urban Planning and Architecture in Middle- and Neo-Assyrian Periods

Maria Micale

Hinweise für Studierende

More recent studies on specific topics will be distributed during the course.

Kommentar

The course will give an overview on the architecture and urban landscape of Assyrian cities from the second half of second millennium to the fall of the Neo-Assyrian empire at the end of the 7th century BC. In addition to the analysis of individual buildings and their reciprocal settlement in a synchronic/diachronic perspective, the course will investigate the sources of Assyrian architecture (buildings, texts, images). A special focus will be placed on: 1) the city of Ashur in the second millennium from old buildings to new monuments; 2) the architecture present in the Middle-Assyrian provinces and the question of "Assyrian features" abroad; 3) the Neo-Assyrian capitals: urban settlement, religious architecture and palaces; 4) archaeological and textual sources for the building activities of the king; 5) the Assyrian images of architecture: a reliable source? The course aims at exploring Assyrian architecture according to typology, function, and chronology as well as a critical perspective on the interpretation of its different sources. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

1. ANDRAE W. (1977), Das wiedererstandene Assur, Beck, Muenich (2 ed.). 2. HEINRICH E. (1982), Die Tempel und Heiligtu?mer im alten Mesopotamien: Typologie, Morphologie und Geschichte. 2 vols. Denkmäler antiker Architektur 14.2. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 3. HEINRICH E. (1984), Die Paläste im Alten Mesopotamien, Denkmäler Antiker Architektur 15, De Gruyter, Berlin. 4. MIGLUS P. (1999), Städtische Wohnarchitektur in Babylonien und Assyrien, Baghdader Forschungen 22, P. von Zabern, Mainz. 5. NOVÁK M. (1999), Herrschaftsform und Stadtbaukunst: Programmatik im mesopotamischen Residenzstadtbau von Agade bis Surra man ra'a, Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 7, Saarbrücker, Saarbrücken. Schließen