Urkesh

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Marco De Pietri – 2018-present

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1. Bibliography on Urkesh/E-Library

This list displays in alphabetical order the authors of the contributions mentioned in the following list (each number links to a singular contribution).

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Alphabetical List

Buccellati, Giorgio: 1; 2; 3; 4


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Bibliographical entries

The following entries are displayed in chronological order; you can easily find above the publications listed in alphabetical order.

Buccellati, Giorgio
2006
“Presentation and Interpretation of Archaeological Sites: the Case of Tell Mozan, Ancient Urkesh,”
in N. Agnew and J. Bridgland (eds.), Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation, Proceedings of the Conservation Theme at the 5th World Archaeological Congress, Washington D.C. 22-26 June 2003, Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 152-156.
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     After the proper excavation process, archaeologists are required to act towards two goals: the interpretation and preservation of the excavated structures and material and the presentation of the site to the wider public of scholars and tourists. The different strategies of preservation and presentation of Tell Mozan are here briefly outlined.
[mDP – November 2019]



Buccellati, Giorgio
2010
“The Urkesh Temple Terrace: Function and Perception,”
in J. Becker, R. Hempelmann, and E. Rehm (eds.), Kulturlandschaft Syrien - Zentrum und Peripherie - Festschrift für Jan-Waalke Meyer, AOAT 371, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pp. 87-121.
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     The structure and the function of Urkesh's Temple Terrace is widely analysed in the present contribution, aiming to define the limits and features of ancient perception on this monumental structures.
[mDP – November 2019]



Buccellati, Giorgio
2018
“A Children's Hermeneutics,”
Backdirt, December 2018, pp. 32-37.
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     After a discussion of the concept of 'ancient perception', i.e. the way through which ancient people perceived and considered themselves and their life experiences, the topic of this paper moves directly on graves at Urkesh. Human burials are considered within a 'territorial legacy', i.e., also today, when excavating a tomb, archaeologists have to face the problem of been dealing with human remains (i.e. men or women) of people who settled at Urkesh many centuries ago. A final discussion deals with the comparison between archaeological and anthropological observations and 'funeral' texts from second- and first-millennium Mesopotamia.
[mDP – November 2019]



Buccellati, Giorgio
2019
“From Urkesh to Mozan. The itinerary of a project in wartime,”
in A. Pieńkowska, D. Szeląg and I. Zych (eds.),
Stories told around the fountain. Papers offered to Piotr Bieliński on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press; PCMA UW., pp. 187-204.
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“Building on a long experience with community engagement in prewar times, the Urkesh Extended Project has faced the problems caused by the current war in Syria by expanding the range of its activities and involving on many different levels the local communities. Here I touch first on a theoretical consideration: the notion of territorial legacy as linking the modern with the ancient inhabitants of the area of ancient Urkesh. I then illustrate two particular aspects of our work, namely, conservation and site presentation: both continued unabated during the war, and were even expanded. The response of the local people has been a major measure of success, with large numbers of visitors still coming to the site for a surprising form of war tourism” [author's abstract].
[mDP – December 2020]




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2. Links to multimidia outside Urkesh/E-Library. AVASA

This section offers links to AVASA webpage regarding multimedia on the topic of the present page (i.e. site presentation at Urkesh/Tell Mozan).

  1. 6th June 2021: “Immersive Live Tour. Visit the Ancient City of Urkesh in the Syrian Jezirah”
    Online conference organized by the
    Metropolitan Museum of Art; video

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