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Content
The eLibrary basically collects books, papers, dissertations, lectures, posters, reports, communications, exhibits, papers on media, multimedia, and other digital material related to the ancient archaeological site of Urkesh/Tell Mozan, mainly produced by members of the Mozan team, even if not exclusively.
In fact, sections of the present website are devoted to display bibliographical entries which are related to Urkesh even if not authored by members of the Mozan team.
Further, another section is dedicated to useful bibliography not directly related to Urkesh (but seldom quoting it under many aspects) but of general interest about archaeology, anthropology, religion, history, philosophy, social sciences, literature and many other disciplines involving topics of interest for a deeper understanding of the history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East as a whole and coherent field of study.
The eLibrary also offers some excursuses, mostly dealing with archaeology and different approaches to archaeological publication and fruition, which invite the reader to reach a deeper understanding of the topics covered by the bibliography entered in this website.
A specific section of the eLibrary focuses on major themes regarding pivotal aspects of the work at Tell Mozan.
Moreover, the website is also corredated with a section of indices helping the reader in easily finding information according to differet parameters of enquiry.
Last, as far as possible, each bibliographical entry (even if not all of them) is provided with an abstract which expands the information already given in the short summary.
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Stucture
The eLibrary is basically divided into three main (first hierarchical level) sections (in a coherent manner, according to different topics or contents) marked by Latin capital letters, i.e.:
Sub-sections (second hierarchical level) are insted labeled with Arabic numbers followed by a dot, i.e.:
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Editorial
In the top part of the left-hand side bar, after the command “Expand/Collapse menu”, the string of “Search”, the “Topical index” (listing topics pertaining to the whole website, differently from the “7. INDICES”, collecting just topics related to “SECTION B”), and the “Shortcuts”, there is a small part labeled EDITORIAL.
This part provides links to other pages and the main data about the eLibrary:
- links:
- pages:
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Sections
Hereafter, a general overview on the three main (first hierarchical level) sections (A, B, and C) is provided, along with a brief description of their seven (second hierarchical level) sub-sections.
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A – GENERAL
This section is dedicated to a brief description of relevant aspects of the eLibrary which pertains to the sub-section 0. Introduction, which is described in detail here below.
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0. INTRODUCTION
This sub-section offers some relevant topics related to the present book:
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B – MATERIAL
Section B collects the bibliographical material, properly.
The section is divided into two (second hierarchical level) sub-sections with are described in detail here below.
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1. PROJECT MATERIAL
The PROJECT MATERIAL sub-section basically provides contributions published by members of the Mozan team. This sub-section is further splitted into two (third hierarchical level) sub-sections:
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2. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The OTHER PUBLICATIONS sub-section reports material which is not always (even if this criterion is not that strict) why are authored either by members of the Mozan team or by other scholars. Also this sub-section is divided into two (third hierarchical level) sub-sections, as described hereafter.
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2.1. Papers
The sub-section “2.1. PAPERS” is organized into two (fourth hierarchical level) sub-sections:
- Urkesh specific, collecting papers directly related to Urkesh.
- General interest, listing either works with topics not focused on Urkesh but mentioning it or pertaining to different scientific fields (such as, e.g., archaeology, anthropology, religion, history, philosophy, social sciences, literature, etc.) which in several way contribute to reach a better understanding of Urkesh (and other ancient archaeological sites) and its “broken tradition”.
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2.2. Links
The material in the sub-section “2.2. LINKS” is also distributed into two (fourth hierarchical level) sub-sections:
- Urkesh specific; listing in alphabetical order useful links to topic related to Urkesh;
- Other links; presenting links not directly related to Urkesh but dealing with topics about archaeological themes (general introduction list of sites, preservation, methodology, blogs), the Ancient Near East (archaeology, history, religion, philology, museums), evaluation of archaeological sites, and education through archaeology.
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3. MEDIA COVERAGE
The sub-section labeled as “MEDIA COVERAGE” presents contributions related to Tell Mozan in four different formats:
- papers appeared in the Press;
- visual material in the form of Broadcasts and videos;
- short contributions or quotation of Urkesh on different Blogs;
- mentions of the words “Urkesh” outside the proper archaeological context in different fields related to popular culture, hence the label “On the fringes”.
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4. MAJOR THEMES
This thematic sub-section, “MAJOR THEMES”, collects a selection of papers already entered in the sub-sections 1 and 2, dealing with some relevant aspects of the archaeological work and materials found at Urkesh:
- Ceramics, for which see also the dedicated topical book;
- Conservation, further developed in a specific parent topical book;
- Digitality, listing works about the practical aspects of the approach of digital tools to archeology (for the theoretical premises about digitality, cf. the Digital Discourse website;
- Heritage, presenting the social impacts and cultural implications of archeology on the local community and the young generations (more information in the HERITAGE topical book);
- Seals, putting together the most significant papers stressing the importance of seals and sealings to retrieve the ancient history of Urkesh, whose importance can be further investigated reading the related topical book GLYPTICS;
- Site presentation, displaying papers describing the peculiar way through which Tell Mozan is brought to the knowledge of different (for geographical location, age, etc.) publics, as well explained in another topical book.
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C – EXTRA & TOOLS
Section C is basically spitted into two types of sub-sections, better explained here below, providing further insights or useful research tools.
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5. ABSTRACTS
The sub-sections 5. ABSTRACTS offers texts longer than the summaries of the bibliographical entries in section B, allowing the reader to better understand and evaluate the contributions listed in the present website.
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6. EXCURSUSES
The bibliographical 6. EXCURSUSES represents an attempt to analyze a specific topic in the light of the bibliography provided in section B; namely, they are involving the following aspects related to archaeology and history:
- the archaeology of architecture;
- the concept of built environment;
- the ethics necessary to perform an archaeological endeavor which is sustainable and enriching for the society;
- the experience required to develop proper and effective archaeological strategies;
- the logic concept of nonlinearity;
- the relevance and impact of perception in the archaeological field;
- the importance and need of reading and not just consulting or surfing a website like urkesh.org
- the role and historical implications of writing, either in the remote past and the contemporary time.
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7. INDICES
The last sub-section, i.e. 7. INDICES, lists information and data according to four criteria:
- Authors of the different contributions;
- Keywords selected by the editors of the present website;
- Labels of items found at Urkesh with the related bibliographical quotations;
- Topics involving different aspects of Urkesh or archaeology in general correlated with references to bibliography (also providing links redirecting to the very page of the contribution for which a PDF version is, when available, also provided).
[NB: please, take into account that all the aforementioned indices are manually produced, differently from the topical indices of the bibliographical pages of sub-sections 1 and 2.]
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