Imperial Architecture and Identity

The special issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Volume 9, Issue 3, 2021 co-edited by team 3 researchers Marta Lorenzon and Rick Bonnie is out! The new issue focuses on the topic of imperial architecture presenting interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the role of the built environment in shaping identities within past MENA societies.

Articles included in the issue

Imperial Architecture and Identity: An Introduction

Marta Lorenzon and Rick Bonnie

(***Open Access for 3 Months*** on JSTOR)


The Hubris of Founding a New City: Sargon II and the Creation of Dur-Sharruken

David Kertai


From Architectural Analysis to Architectural Theory: City Gates as Public Spaces in Syro-Anatolian Urban Centers

Marta Lorenzon


Typology and Multifunctionality of Public Libraries in Rome and the Empire

Antonio Lopez Garcia and Miriam Bueno Guardia


A Sustained Presence: Synagogue Buildings in Galilee during the Early

Islamic Period and Later

Rick Bonnie


Book reviews

The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and Its

Consequences, by Avraham Faust

Reviewed by Gunnar Lehmann


Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East, by Max D. Price

Reviewed by Nimrod Marom


The Enigma of the Hyksos, Volume 1: ASOR Conference Boston 2017—ICAANE

Conference Munich 2018—Collected Papers, edited by Manfred Bietak and

Sylvia Prell

Reviewed by James M. Weinstein

 

Available for subscribers online at JSTOR.