Persia`s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran 9781842175194

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Автор: H. Omrani Rekavandi, T. J. Wilkinson, J. Nokandeh, Eberhard Sauer
Название: Persia`s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran
ISBN: 9781842175194
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Классификация:

Археология

Археология Ближнего и Среднего Востока

Археология Древней Греции и Древнего Рима

ISBN-10: 184217519X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 800
Вес: 2.88 кг.
Дата издания: 11.01.2013
Серия: Archeology
Язык: English
Размер: 217 x 301 x 43
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Archaeology,Archaeology by period / region,Middle & Near Eastern archaeology,Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The Gorgan Wall stretches for over 200km through northern Iran. Guarded by over 30 forts, it is longer than Hadrians Wall and the Antonine Wall put together and is the most monumental ancient border defense system between Central Europe and China. Yet few have heard of it. Until recently, dating proposals ranged over more than a millennium, and majority opinion attributed the wall to the Parthians (3rd century BC 3rd century AD). Scientific dating has now established that this massive monument was created in the 5th/6th century AD and belongs to one of the largest and most long-lasting empires of antiquity, that of Sasanian Persia (3rd-7th centuries AD). Stretching from modern Pakistan to Mesopotamia and into Central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, the empire conquered in the early 7th century much of the Levant and advanced as far as the Bosporus. Investigations between 2005 and 2009 by a team of archaeologists makes clear that such expansion was made possible through one of the largest and most well organized military systems of antiquity, together with targeted investment in border defense and the empires agriculture. In the hinterland of the wall there were massive square fortifications, of some 40 ha size each, one of which has yielded traces of dense occupation, probably neat rows of army tents. The Late Sasanian era also saw the foundation of a city, more than twice the size of Roman London at its prime, demonstrating that the area was prosperous enough to sustain a sizable urban population. Substantial manpower was required for these construction projects. Brick production for the Gorgan Wall depended on thousands of kilns that received water via major canals. The wall cut through a landscape that already a millennium earlier was heavily settled and irrigated by canals which enabled a flourishing culture to emerge in the steppe. The Gorgan Wall project has shed light on what made one of antiquitys largest empires and earlier civilisations succeed.

Persia`s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran, H. Omrani Rekavandi, T. J. Wilkinson, J. Nokandeh, Eberhard Sauer