scholarly journals Forum provinciae in Sarmizegetusa

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Ádám Szabó ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empty Space ◽  
Exact Match ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Imperial Cult ◽  
The Third ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Made In

L. F. Marsigli represented three archaeological structures on the map of Colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, made in 1699 and published in 1726 – the city walls, the amphitheatre and a rectangular, double-walled building which encloses an empty space, and which has a square-shaped niche on one side (Pl. I/2). The map, compared in scale to the results of archaeological excavations and geophysical surveys shows an exact match with the currently known groundplan of the city wall, its northeastern corner and the amphitheatre. The third building may be identified as the centre of the provincial assembly (concilium provinciae)1 and the provincial imperial cult, namely the forum provinciae, that was situated within the territory of the Area sacra (Pl. I/1; Pl. II), approximately 20 metres to the northwest from the location given by Marsigli. The two textual fragments previously found in the area also support the assessment of the structure of forum provinciae. The dislocation of the third building on the map was presumably due to misprinting or Marsigli’s field error. Today, the area is still unexplored, only future archeological excavations can justify or refute the exact characteristics, structure and periodisation of the third building depicted on Marsigli’s map.

scholarly journals Integrated geophysical surveys for the knowledge of a monument of Lecce: the sixteenth-century fortifications

ACTA IMEKO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Giovanni Leucci ◽  
Giacomo Di Giacomo ◽  
Lara De Giorgi ◽  
Immacolata Ditaranto ◽  
Ilaria Miccoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
Geophysical Investigations ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Within<strong> </strong>the project for the<strong> </strong>restoration of the<strong> </strong>northern section of the sixteenth-century city wall of Lecce, CNR-IBAM carried out geophysical surveys aimed at the study and the reconstruction of the fortifications system. In particular, the investigations focused on a wide band of land outside the two bastions at the northern far end of the fortifications. The integrated use of GPR and ERT systems has allowed to detect anomalies related to the main ditch outside the city wall and to characterize the rocky bench in which it was excavated; at the time of the surveys, this ditch was still buried and the results of the measurements have guided its excavations. Moreover, the investigations have allowed to identify also other possible ditches or quarries and more ancient structures, which subsequent archaeological excavations have dated at the Roman period. Moreover, geophysical surveys highlighted the presence of modern walls, corresponding with the foundations of the stadium constructed in the first half of the 1900s close to the fortifications. So, geophysical investigations were very important since they allowed not only to direct the archaeological excavations, but also because they allowed to formulate some hypotheses on the ancient topography of the not excavated area.

scholarly journals Le délicat problème des restes humains en archéologie

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-209
Author(s):  
Philippe Charlier
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

The problem I am interested in is above all that of the biomedical management of human remains in archaeology, these ancient artifacts “unlike any other”, these “atypical patients”. In the following text, I will examine, with an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropological, philosophical and medical), how it is possible to work on human remains in archaeology, but also how to manage their storage after study. Working in archaeology is already a political problem (in the Greek sense of the word, i.e., it literally involves the city), and one could refer directly to Laurent Olivier’s work on the politics of archaeological excavations during the Third Reich and the spread of Nazi ideology based on excavation products and anthropological studies. But in addition, working on human remains can also pose political problems, and we paid the price in my team when we worked on Robespierre’s death mask (the reconstruction of the face having created a real scandal on the part of the French far left) but also when we worked on Henri IV’s head (its identification having considerably revived the historical clan quarrel between Orléans and Bourbon). Working on human remains is therefore anything but insignificant.

scholarly journals Balsa, Topografia e Urbanismo de uma Cidade Portuária

2020 ◽  
pp. 1399-1412
Author(s):  
Vítor Silva Dias ◽  
João Pedro Bernardes ◽  
Celso Candeias ◽  
Cristina Tété Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Strip ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Ria Formosa ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
The Way

Geophysical surveys, field walking prospections and archaeological excavations recently carried out and still ongoing under the project, “Balsa, searching the origins of Algarve”, have allowed us to know more about this ancient city, namely by assessing what is still preserved and / or what it will have been destroyed, the extension of the city, some of its urban and topographic realities or, definitively eliminating hypotheses of archaeological realities that, evidently, never existed. Based on a multivariate methodology and using different technologies and specialists, the results of the work already carried out allowed us to attest that the city is smaller than was supposed, extending along a narrow strip along the Ria Formosa; they also allowed to know the orientation of the urban plan, the location and extent of its main necropolis, the location of the forum, as well as some aspects of the way the city has evolved.

Preservation Strategies of Longdong Ancient City Walls in Systematic Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Yu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Lina Wang
Keyword(s):  
Point System ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
System Planning ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Historic Landmark ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City ◽  
Great Portion

City wall is an important symbol of ancient Chinese cities with unique geographical and cultural characteristics. Thus, the preservation of this historic landmark is considered significantly important. However, numerous residential construction activities and changes in ecological environment have destructed a great portion of the city walls in recent years. This study looks into the preservation of the ancient city walls from the systematic perspective and in line with the actual characteristics of Longdong Region to provide guideline measures for the protection and restoration of such landmark. Cognition and preservation are adopted extensively to investigate the specific situation of and the factors that influence the ancient city walls in this region. Preservation strategies for the city walls, including the “Axis-Point” system, planning control, and authenticity readability, are presented. The ancient city walls in Longdong Region can be preserved by protecting the entire region, the city, and the main wall body. The systematic method and preservation strategies at the “macro perspective,” “medium perspective” and “micro perspective” levels can solve the preservation problems of the ancient city walls in Longdong Region effectively.

scholarly journals The Peripheral Housing Estate as a Form of Urban Spatial Development. The Status Quo and Perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Pieniążek
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
The Third ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Made In

Abstract Presentation of contemporary trends in development of such residential units as peripheral housing estates in large Polish cities, as exemplified by Warsaw, is the objective of the paper. Such units are compared with their counterparts being built in Berlin. Research was carried out in three housing estates in the western part of the Bemowo District of Warsaw, i.e. Lazurowa (developer J.W. Construction), Nad Jeziorem (developer DoR Group) and Villa L’Azur (developer Bouygues Immobilier Polska). The first two were completed at the turn of 2008/2009. The third is in the final stage of construction. All three are located inside immediate city borders. Within framework of research were carried out analysis of developers’ materials, cartographic materials from the City Hall as well as field research. The results were juxtaposed with research made in 2008 in Berlin.

scholarly journals STUDY ON EXTRACTION AND EXPRESSION METHODS OF BULGING DISEASES IN ANCIENT CITY WALLS

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W20 ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Q. Song ◽  
Y. G. Hu ◽  
M. L. Hou
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Processing Efficiency ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
City Walls ◽  
Scan Data ◽  
The City

Abstract. The ancient city wall contains rich cultural values. Due to environmental and human factors, there are many diseases in the ancient city wall: bulging, cracking, etc., which will lead to the collapse or even death of the ancient city wall. Therefore, the monitoring and protection of the ancient city wall is imminent. This paper proposes a new scheme for bulging monitoring for wall bulging. The feature plane is fitted according to the actual scan data, the degree of bulging, the trend and the area size are determined, and the bulging deformation of the city wall is displayed in the form of an image. Simplify workflow, improve data processing efficiency, and display more intuitively.

Euergetism and city-walls in the Italian city of Telesia

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Richard Ramanius
Keyword(s):  
City Wall ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Italian City ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Six inscriptions relating to the construction of the fortifications of the southern Italian town of Telesia were analyzed and compared to three inscriptions of the same type from the Italian town of Grumentum. The purpose of this was to gain insight into how Italian towns funded and organized the construction of city-walls during the Late Republic. The city-walls were built progressively in both towns, and in both cases were probably funded by private citizens, even if they were acting as magistrates. In Grumentum an older city-wall was gradually replaced by letting each new, annually elected magistrate build a new section. It would seem that in Telesia the walls were built first. The subsequent construction of the towers probably followed the plan of the local senate and was paid for by the magistrates themselves. The expressions pro ludeis/ludis on some inscriptions suggest that they were built instead of giving games.

scholarly journals Muslim Communities During the Ayutthaya Period

MANUSYA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julispong Chularatana
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
City Wall ◽  
The Third ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The City

The Muslims in Ayutthaya were divided into distinct groups. The first, the Indo- Malay Muslims, and the second, the Sunni Muslims from the countries to the west of Siam, were the groups outside the city wall, while the third resided inside the city wall. This third group consisted mainly of Indo-Iranian Muslims of the Shiite sect, different from the first and the second groups, who were primarily of Sunni sect of the Shaf’is group. The differences in their religion, race, society, and culture caused these Muslims to separate into different communities in the city of Ayutthaya.

scholarly journals Toponym Klimata in the Medieval Crimea

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Aibabin
Keyword(s):  
Entire Period ◽  
The South ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Written Sources

Introduction. In Byzantine historical and hagiographic texts of the 9th–10th centuries reporting on events that took place in Crimea, the Klimata were repeatedly mentioned (τ κλίματα is a plural number of τὸ κλίμα – klimata). Κλίμα in Greek means a district in a city or part of a province. Methods. For justifying the boundaries of the Klimata, it is necessary to analyze all references to the toponym in written sources and materials of archaeological excavations in the South-Western Crimea. Analysis. During the entire period of its existence, the Klimata (archontitai) did not have autonomy. In the 7th century Cherson and Klimata were a Byzantine border province. Since the early 8th century until 841 Mountain Crimea belonged to the Khazars. Kagan united the Klimata (archontitai) of Cherson to the province of Gothia with its capital in Doros. Kagan retained the previous administration and appointed archon Klima Doras as the ruler of Gothia (Klimata). Kagan subordinated to him the archons of other fortresses and entrusted to him the collection of tribute. From 841 to the third quarter of the 11th c., the Klimata of Gothia were included into the theme of Cherson. Seals of the Turmarch of Gothia of the end of the 10th – the early 11th centuries prove the creation the Turma of Gothia within the theme of Cherson, which was ruled by a Byzantine officer-turmarch. In 1204, the province submitted to Trebizond. Results. In written sources, the toponym Klimata called only the region neighboring Cherson with the fortresses of the neighbouring peoples of the city “castris gentium ibidem adjacentium” (the Goths and the Alans). In the 7th century the Klimata of Cherson were localized on the territory of the country of Dori. In the 8th – the first half (?) of the 13th centuries Gothia or the Klimata of Gothia were put there.

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