The article deals with the analysis of the different kinds of roads attested in the legal documentation brought to light in the city of Emar, modern Meskene Qadime (Syria) or attributable to its cultural and geographical environment dating to the Late Bronze age. More than 2000 documents have been excavated in the site and a considerable quantity of tablets from the Antiquity market has been edited. Among those texts, a number of sales of real estate provides rich information on the ancient landscape. Roads are frequently mentioned as adjoining features of both buildings and fields and, in the texts, they are identified with a peculiar terminology differentiating main street axis from smaller lanes inside the urban context and roads in the countryside. The present work relates the terminology of roads to the kind of estate they are bordering and analyses the preserved names of roads.
The article deals with the analysis of the different kinds of roads attested in the legal documentation brought to light in the city of Emar, modern Meskene Qadime (Syria) or attributable to its cultural and geographical environment dating to the Late Bronze age. More than 2000 documents have been excavated in the site and a considerable quantity of tablets from the Antiquity market has been edited. Among those texts, a number of sales of real estate provides rich information on the ancient landscape. Roads are frequently mentioned as adjoining features of both buildings and fields and, in the texts, they are identified with a peculiar terminology differentiating main street axis from smaller lanes inside the urban context and roads in the countryside. The present work relates the terminology of roads to the kind of estate they are bordering and analyses the preserved names of roads.
Osservazioni sulla tipologia delle strade dai testi di Emar / Mori, Lucia. - In: VICINO ORIENTE. - ISSN 0393-0300. - STAMPA. - XIV:(2008), pp. 205-217.
Osservazioni sulla tipologia delle strade dai testi di Emar
MORI, Lucia
2008
Abstract
The article deals with the analysis of the different kinds of roads attested in the legal documentation brought to light in the city of Emar, modern Meskene Qadime (Syria) or attributable to its cultural and geographical environment dating to the Late Bronze age. More than 2000 documents have been excavated in the site and a considerable quantity of tablets from the Antiquity market has been edited. Among those texts, a number of sales of real estate provides rich information on the ancient landscape. Roads are frequently mentioned as adjoining features of both buildings and fields and, in the texts, they are identified with a peculiar terminology differentiating main street axis from smaller lanes inside the urban context and roads in the countryside. The present work relates the terminology of roads to the kind of estate they are bordering and analyses the preserved names of roads.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
