scholarly journals RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEO-ASSYRIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE REVIEW PALACE AND NERGAL GATE OF NINEVEH

Iraq ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali. Y. Al-Juboori
Keyword(s):  
City Wall ◽  
Royal Inscriptions ◽  
Northern City

Between 1987 and 1992, Iraqi archaeologists under the direction of the local Inspectorate of Antiquities undertook excavations at Nineveh. In particular, they excavated east of the mosque located on the smaller mound of Nebi Yunus and at the Nergal Gate, the middle gate of the northern city wall. At the Nergal Gate, an inscription of Sennacherib was found on two bull colossi and two paving stones. At Nebi Yunus, a few inscribed clay and stone objects were discovered in the ruins of the armoury, the so-called “Rear Palace” (or “Review Palace”). These included a slab of Ashurnaṣirpal II, a prism fragment of Esarhaddon, two human-headed winged bull colossi of Esarhaddon, a winged-bull of Ashurbanipal, and an unsculpted wall slab of Ashurbanipal. Then, after east Mosul was liberated from ISIS/Daʾesh occupation in early 2017, seven further inscriptions of Esarhaddon were discovered in looters’ tunnels under the destroyed mosque. All of those inscriptions are edited here.

Traces of the strong earthquakes in ancient Mikhaylovka archeological monument, Kerch’ Peninsula, Crimea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.М. Корженков ◽  
А.Н. Овсюченко ◽  
А.С. Ларьков ◽  
А.В. Мараханов ◽  
Е.А. Рогожин ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Intensity ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Strong Earthquakes ◽  
Counterclockwise Rotation ◽  
Kerch Peninsula ◽  
Systematic Character ◽  
Seismic Oscillations ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Northern Wall ◽  
Northern City

In the paper there are results of archeoseismological study of an antic archeological monument – Mikhaylovka hill-fort located in Kerch’ peninsula. Studied deformations complex includes: systematic tilts, shifts and collapses of building constructions of latitudinal strike northward. Building elements of longitudinal strike tilted, shifted and collapsed westward. We revealed one counterclockwise rotation in a wall part which was not anchored. Most impressive and unique is shearing and shifting southward of a significant fragment of northern city wall. The revealed deformations in the trench No. III of Mikhaylovka hill-fort undoubtedly demonstrate their seismogenic origin. Large number of double walls – original walls and counterforce ones – “krepida’s” testifies on at least two events of destruction and deformation in Mikhaylovka fort-hill. Local seismic intensity was apparently (VIII) ≤ Io ≤ IX. According to numismatic founds and fire traces first earthquake occurred in beginning of II century AD, second earthquake - in III century AD. Maximum summary seismic oscillations during first earthquakes propagated apparently in latitudinal direction which led to wedging of significant part of the northern wall of the hill-fort. Seismic shocks during second earthquakes went along NNW-SSE axis. This direction is testified be systematic character of tilts, shifts and collapses of the walls of both directions.

Roman-period pottery from a trench by the northern city wall in Beit Ras/Capitolias

2020 ◽  
pp. 577-602
Author(s):  
Jolanta Młynarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
City Wall ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Northern Jordan

One of the trenches opened by the team of the PCMA during 2015–2016 at the site of Beit Ras (ancient Capitolias) in the governorate of Irbid, northern Jordan, revealed remains of the defensive city wall. Neither the foundation nor the earliest walking level connected with the wall could have been reached; however, the archaeological exploration allowed to identify three upper floors, all posterior to the construction of the city wall. The analysis of the ceramics from under the floors permitted to establish the repertory of the local, regional and some imported wares in the Roman-period Capitolias and, at the same time, provided an insight into the chronology of the defenses of ancient Capitolias.

scholarly journals A new inscription from Sirmium and the basilica of St. Anastasia

Starinar ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Ivana Popovic ◽  
Snezana Ferjancic
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Northern City ◽  
Written Sources

A fragmentary marble inscription, preserved in the Museum of Srem in Sremska Mitrovica, seems to mention the basilica of St. Anastasia: [In dom]o beati[ssimae dominae nost]re Anast[asiae. This monument provides epigraphic evidence on the cult place of the martyr in Sirmium, already recorded by written sources. According to the Passion of St. Demetrius, the church of St. Anastasia had already existed in Sirmium when Leontius, praetorian prefect of Illyricum, started the construction of the basilica of St. Demetrius. Although the find spot of the plate is not known, the finds of Ostrogothic coins next to the northern city wall imply that the basilica of St. Anastasia was located in that zone of the city, as the Ostrogoths highly respected the Martyr. It is possible that it should be identified with a martyrium leaning against the northern city wall that had been unearthed and then destroyed at the end of the 19th century.

scholarly journals Ideology and Administration in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peerapat Ouysook
Keyword(s):  
City Wall ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Royal Inscriptions ◽  
Construction Documents ◽  
Wall System

Kleber, K. 2008. Tempel und Palast: Die Beziehungen zwischen dem König und dem Eanna-Tempel imspätbabylonischen Uruk. AOAT 358. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.Eanna Archive Chronology (pp.135–73) Regnal years 1 – 20 ++; Building projects: Etemenanki Ziqqurat; Location: BabylonRegnal years 2; Building projects: Esagil BabylonRegnal years 14 – 32; Building projects: miscellaneous; Location: Opis and SipparRegnal years 14/35 – 42; Building projects: - ; Location: Tyros/ṢuruRegnal years 15 – at least 20; Building projects: - ; Location: JādaquRegnal years 19 – 29; Building projects: North Palace; Location: BabylonRegnal years 23 – (project completed in the reign of Cyrus); Building projects: - ; Location: Raqqat-ŠamašRegnal years 27; Building projects: Nebuchadnezzar Canal (Nār-Šarri); Location: North of SipparRegnal years 31; Building projects: A dam; Location: Sealand regionRegnal years 33; Building projects: Euriminanki Ziqqurrat; Location: BorsippaRegnal years 35; Building projects: City wall; Location: Babylon ---Da Riva, R. 2008. The Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions: An Introduction. Guides to the MesopotamianTextual Record (GMTR) 4. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.“In his Ehulhul cylinder…, king Nabonidus claims to have restored the Ebabbar in Sippar forty-five years after the reconstruction undertaken by Nebuchadnezzar. Since Nabonidus’ works date to 553-2 BC, the alleged reconstruction must date to 597-96 BC (pp.74).”*597-96 BC = 7 th - 8 th regnal years---Da Riva, R. 2012. The Twin Inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar at Brisa (Wadi Esh-Sharbin, Lebanon): a historical and philological studies . Archiv für Orientforschung (AO) 32. Wien: Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik der Universität Wien. “The construction of Nār-šarri is well-documented in the administrative texts, and all evidence confirms that it was a lengthy project. The first references to the canal are from the second decade of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, but the construction documents are dated to the 27 th regnal year onwards (pp.20).”---Da Riva, R. 2013. Nebuchadnezzar II’s Prism (EŞ 7834): A New Edition. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie (ZA), 103 (2). 196–229.“Also known as the Old Palace, this building had been constructed by Nabopolassar (626–605 BC) and later expanded by Nebuchadnezzar II (605–562 BC) in or before his seventh year, according to the date mentioned in the Prism, before he decided to build a new one (the Hauptburg or Nordburg) outside the inner wall system (pp.196).”(pp.210-1)Column III25’ in se-bu-tim ša-at-ti-ia 1 lim 1 lim še - im26’ 1

scholarly journals Prospecting Archaeological Works at the Northern Defensive Wall in the Seaside Part of Derbent

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
M. S. Gadzhiev ◽  
A. I. Taymazov ◽  
A. L. Budaychiev ◽  
A. K. Abiev ◽  
A. M. Abdulaev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Construction ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Active Life ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
Data Point ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City

The article presents some results of an archaeological researches conducted at the northern city wall in the seaside part of Derbent outside the medieval shakhristan. The soundings (No. 26–29) revealed layers of various geneses and provided new data on the historical topography of the medieval town. The obtained data point at some cultural layers of Pre-Mongol period (X – early XIII century) outside the shakhristan (soundings No. 26–28). It was period of flourishing for the medieval Derbent when the city occupied the territory of architecturally allocated shakhristan and when the near and far agricultural areas was actively used. These materials also confirm the earlier obtained data that the active life of the city ceased in the second quarter of the XIII century due to Mongol invasions. At the same time, excavations revealed some layers related to the late Sasanian period and connected with the large-scale construction of a stone defensive wall in the middle of the VI century (soundings No. 26, 27) and an adobe defensive wall built in the middle of the V century (sounding No. 27), which completely closed the Derbent pass.On the western border of the surveyed site, six Muslim stone sarcophagus-shaped sepulchral monuments of the XI–XII centuries were found in the modern ditch, as well as some stone plates from the destroyed cists. The sarcophagi are the most extreme east monuments within the medieval necropolis of Derbent, and they act as evident confirmation to Adam Olearius’ engraving (1637 AD) that depicted Derbent and its extensive northern cemetery with such monuments. 

Profusion and Parody in Barcelona

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Christoforidis
Keyword(s):  
Local Color ◽  
Genero Chico ◽  
Northern City

The cosmopolitan northern city of Barcelona played host to Carmen’s Spanish premiere in 1881, starring Célestine Galli-Marié, and although the opera failed to take root at this point, Barcelona’s status as a center of entertainment in a variety of Spanish genres and a keen purveyor of European trends set the stage for Carmen’s return in the late 1880s. This revival led to a proliferation of competing productions in the early 1890s, and a degree of popularity that inspired the composition of a successful parody, the género chico work Carmela (1891), which subverted the local color and melodies of Bizet’s opera for a Hispanic audience and toured Spain and the Americas for several years.

WALLS, GATES AND STORIES: DETECTING ROME'S RIVERSIDE DEFENCES

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
T.P. Wiseman
Keyword(s):  
Careful Attention ◽  
City Wall ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

The construction date of the ‘Servian’ wall and its layout in the riverside area between the Aventine and the Capitol are the two main questions addressed in this article. The interlocking topographical problems were addressed in 1988 by Filippo Coarelli, whose interpretation has become the generally accepted orthodoxy. But not all the difficulties have been solved, and with Coarelli's recent return to the subject a fresh examination of the evidence may be helpful. Careful attention is given here to stories of early Rome that involve the walls and gates, as reported in Livy, Dionysius and Plutarch; they are not, of course, taken as authentic evidence for the time of the alleged events, but as indicating what was taken for granted when the stories were first composed. New suggestions are made about a revision of the line of the city wall in 212 BC and the consequent restructuring of two important gates, the Porta Carmentalis and the Porta Trigemina; the mysterious ‘Porta Triumphalis’ is discussed separately in an appendix.

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