Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations

book: Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations

Edited by: Federico Buccellati , Sebastian Hageneuer , Sylva van der Heyden and Felix Levenson
Funded by: Cluster of Excellence 264 TOPOI

Volume 146 in the series Histoire

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445389

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About this book

When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters - or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual or inscriptual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.

Author / Editor information

Federico Buccellati, Near Eastern Archaeologist, is a researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin as well as at the Alexandria Archive Institute. He has served as Field Director of the Mozan/Urkesh Archaeological Project since 2008, and is vice-director of the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies (IIMAS). His research interests lie in 3rd and 2nd millennium Syro-Mesopotamia, particularly architecture and the archaeological record, as well as theoretical and digital aspects of archaeology.
Sebastian Hageneuer, Near Eastern Archaeologist, works as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute at the Universität zu Köln. In 2010, he received his degree in Near Eastern Archaeology. Since 2013, he is part of a research group that focuses on the significance of size in the architecture of the Ancient Near East.
Sylva van der Heyden is an art historian with special interests in 18(th) and 19(th) century and its reception history, graphic prints and objects made with uncommon materials. Since 2013 she is part of a research group within the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (Berlin) focusing on the topos of the Greatness of the ancient Rome.
Felix Levenson, Near Eastern Archaeologist, studied Religious Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has done fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. His research interests reach from architectural energetics over pottery technology to social archaeology.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Federico Buccellati, Sebastian Hageneuer, Sylva van der Heyden and Felix Levenson Open Access Download PDF	11
Part I. Theoretical Framework and Methodology
Monuments and Monumentality – different perspectives Felix Levenson Open Access Download PDF	17
Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology Federico Buccellati Open Access Download PDF	41
Perceiving monumentality Sebastian Hageneuer and Sylva van der Heyden Open Access Download PDF	65
Responses to the Theoretical Framework and Methodology
Monumentalbaukunst – Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum Jörg H. Gleiter Open Access Download PDF	93
Monumentality in context – a reply from Egyptology Richard Bußmann Open Access Download PDF	99
Part II. Case Studies
The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental Heike Delitz and Felix Levenson Open Access Download PDF	107
Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor Reinhard Bernbeck Open Access Download PDF	133
Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times Sabrina N. Autenrieth and Dieuwertje van Boekel Open Access Download PDF	157
The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view Kirrily White and Rachel Lane Open Access Download PDF	171
The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3^rd millennium BCE Pascal Butterlin Open Access Download PDF	193
La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales Laura Cousin Open Access Download PDF	209
The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system Catharine Hof Open Access Download PDF	223
Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE Marcello Mogetta Open Access Download PDF	241
Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II Mónica Pacheco Silva Open Access Download PDF	269
Monumentality by numbers Sebastian Hageneuer and Sophie C. Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	291
Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem’s Urban Landscape Jeremy Smoak and Alice Mandell Open Access Download PDF	309
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	345

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 350
Keywords: Architecture; Energetics; Identity; Labour; Monument; Perception; Reception; Cultural History; Ancient History; History

eBook

Published: July 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839445389