Frederiksen Rune - Focus on Fortifications

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Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, no. 18. Series editor Rune Frederiksen
Fortification Studies no. 2. Edited by R. Frederiksen, Silke Mth, Peter Schneider and Mike Schnelle
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Names: Frederiksen, Rune. | Mth, Silke. | Schneider, Peter I. (Peter Irenus), date. | Schnelle, Mike.

Title: Focus on fortifications: new research on fortifications in the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East / edited by Rune Frederiksen, Silke Mth, Peter I. Schneider and Mike Schnelle.

Description: Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015049018 (print) | LCCN 2015049272 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785701313 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781785701320 (electronic) | ISBN 9781785701320 (epub) | ISBN 9781785701337 (mobi) | ISBN 9781785701344 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Fortification--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500. | Fortification--Middle East--History--To 1500. | Mediterranean Region--Antiquities. | Middle East--Antiquities. | Mediterranean Region--History, Military. | Middle East--History, Military. | Military history, Ancient.

Classification: LCC UG429.M43 F63 2015 (print) | LCC UG429.M43 (ebook) | DDC 623/.1937--dc23

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Front cover: City wall of Herakleia on Latmos (photo: S. Mth)

CONTENTS

Rune Frederiksen, Silke Mth, Peter I. Schneider and Mike Schnelle

Pierre Leriche

Rune Frederiksen and Mike Schnelle

Pascal Butterlin and Sbastien Rey

Sbastien Rey

Nathan Morello

Tomas Alusik

Stefanie Hubert

Gabriele Cifani

Baptiste Vergnaud

Mike Schnelle

Peter D. De Staebler

Jean-Claude Bessac

Tobias B. H. Helms and Jan-Waalke Meyer

Turgut Saner, Kaan Sa and Ertun Denkta

Aye Dalyanc-Berns and Agnes Henning

Silke Mth

Heinz-Jrgen Beste

Jeanine Abdul Massih and Mathilde Gelin

Wolfram Martini

Ute Lohner-Urban and Peter Scherrer

Klaus Freyberger

Timm Radt

Jessica Bttcher-Ebers

Saskia Stevens

Melanie Jonasch

Gerda von Blow

Eric Laufer

Pierre Ducrey

Michael Kerschner

Tymon de Haas and Peter Attema

Christian Winkle

Isabelle Pimouguet-Pdarros and Nevzat evik

Caterina Parigi

Catharine Hof

Sylvian Fachard

Claire Balandier

Matthieu Guintrand

Yannis D. Nakas

Pierre Moret

Emine Skmen

Douglas Underwood

Josip Vinji

Mihailo Milinkovi

Silke Mth

Stephan G. Schmid, Caroline Huguenot and Katrin Kermas

Keven Ouellet

Britta zen-Kleine

Poul Pedersen and Ulrich Ruppe

Sophie Helas

Chiara Blasetti Fantauzzi

Michael Eisenberg

Pierre Leriche and Sgolne de Pontbriand

Rune Frederiksen

Anna Philippa-Touchais

Konstantinos Kissas and Vassilios Tasinos

Vassilios Lambrinoudakis and Evangelos Kazolias

Salvatore De Vincenzo

Isabella Baldini and Elisa Bazzechi

Nikos Tsoniotis

PREFACE

The present publication comprises the collected papers from a conference organised by the editors which took place over four intensive days, between the 6th and the 9th of December 2012, at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The conference was organised through the Danish Institute at Athens (DIA) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, on behalf of the network Fokus Fortifikation. Antike Befestigungen im stlichen Mittelmeerraum/Focus on Fortification. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean, and with much help from other network members. Fokus Fortifikation, which was sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft between 2009 and 2011, brought together 27 younger scholars from several countries, all of whom were working professionally in the field of ancient fortifications. The network was initiated and directed by Silke Mth, Peter Schneider and Mike Schnelle. As a member of the network, Rune Frederiksen proposed that the Danish Institute at Athens be involved in the organisation of the conference and its publication, which was happily accepted. The conference was an important step in the networks activities, which will be described in detail in the Introduction, and its publication coincides with that of the networks research, presented in S. Mth, P. Schneider, M. Schnelle and P. De Staebler (eds.), Ancient Fortifications: A compendium of theory and practice, Fokus Fortifikation Studies no. 1, Oxford 2016.

The call for papers, published a year before the conference, saw an overwhelming response. Although we extended the programme by a full fourth day, it was still not possible to host all the proposed talks. The inevitable result was that many solid and interesting proposals had to be rejected. This is of course to be regretted but it also confirmed that there is currently a great need for the sharing of information about ancient fortifications.

In addition to the papers submitted in revised form as printable articles, this collection includes three extra contributions from scholars who were not able to participate in the conference: Jessica Bttcher Ebers, Chiara Blasetti Fantauzzi and Salvatore De Vincenzo. We are thankful we have been able to include their work in the printed volume.

We are greatly indebted to the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG) and the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation for their financial support of the conference, and to both the Athens Department and the Division of Building Archaeology (Architekturreferat) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) for their cooperation. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the many institutions based in Athens for lodging a considerable number of participants in their accommodation facilities during the conference: the French and Swiss Schools at Athens, the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute, and the Canadian, Irish, Netherlands, Norwegian and Swedish Institutes at Athens. The conference would not have been possible without the network members who helped with its organisation, from voting for the papers to introducing and chairing sessions or giving talks, for which we are deeply grateful. Warm thanks also go to the staff of the Danish Institute at Athens, Lone Gad, Sren Handberg, Hanna Lassen and Sine Riisager, for their effective work in the organisation and realisation of the conference. Furthermore, it was a great pleasure for us to hold our conference in the lecture theatre of the Acropolis Museum in Athens, and we would like to express our gratitude to its directorate for this opportunity.