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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Messina, Vito

Titel

Heather D. Baker. A waste of space? Unbuilt land in Babylonian cities of the first millennium BC

Ist Teil von

• Abstracta iranica, 2013-12 (Volume 32-33)

Ort / Verlag

CNRS (UMR 7528 Mondes iraniens et indiens)

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As is well-known, what characterized the layout of Babylonian cities was the presence of large unoccupied areas within the urban grid of streets of public buildings and dwellings. These unbuilt areas have received little attention in studies devoted to urbanism in the ancient Near East. This article tries to fill this blank by reviewing the textual and archeological evidence about the function of these areas during the first millennium BC. Cuneiform texts, in particular, are analyzed to sketc...