This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the
ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an
ideological project or a divine intervention in the political
narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking
the complex processes behind the social production of urban space.
During the Early Iron Age (c.1200-850 BCE), Assyrian and
Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official
discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating
landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and
initiating public festivals. This volume combs through
archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental
evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its
spatial practices, landscape history and architectural
technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making
of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as
sites of political performance and state spectacle.
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