H 290 x W 205 mm
270 pages
190 figures, 6 tables, 39 plates (colour throughout)
Published Mar 2021
ISBN
Paperback: 9781789697568
Digital: 9781789697575
Keywords
Fortifications Near East; archaeology of buildings; military architecture
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This book presents results of an archaeological research project focused on a specific monumental area, the citadel, in the city of Urfa (Turkey), known in ancient times as Edessa. Three seasons of fieldwork were carried out (2014-2016) in order to identify the building sequence of the citadel and establish an absolute chronology of events.
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