Istanbul and water / edited by Paul Magdalino and Nina Ergin. - x, 274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 31 cm. - Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 47 . - Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 47. .

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Paul Magdalino -- The Yeni̇kapi excavations, The Riverine and Lacustrine settings along the Sea of Marmara as the habitat of neolithic settlements / Mehmet Özdoğan -- A Holocene-aged swamp area in Yeni̇kapi-Istanbul and its relation to the neighboring neolithic settlement / M. Namık Yalc̦in [and three others] -- Of harbors and trees : the Marmaray contribution to a 2367-year oak-tree-ring chronology from 97 sites for the Aegean, East Mediterranean, and Black seas / Peter Ian Kuniholm [and three others] -- A middle-Byzantine-period cargo vessel from the Yeni̇kapi excavations in Istanbul : a preliminary analysis / Michael R. Jones -- The distribution and consumption of water in Byzantine times, Water and the creation of a new capital / James Crow -- Thermae, Balnea/Loutra, Hamams : the baths of Constantinople / Marlia Mundell Mango -- Holy springs and pools in Byzantine Constantinople / Alice-Mary Talbot -- The social impact of water in Ottoman times, Water resources management and development in Ottoman Istanbul : the 1693 water survey and its aftermath / Deniz Karakaṣ -- "So, we'll go no more a-roving" : sailors, soldiers and their home-folk in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Rhoads Murphey -- The aesthetics of water, Dionysius "Mythistoricus" : story-telling and history on the Bosphorus / Adrian Saunders -- The power of glittering materiality : mirror reflections between poetry and architecture in Greek and Arabic medieval culture / Bissera V. Pentcheva.

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Water use--History--Turkey--Istanbul--To 1500--Congresses.
Water--Social aspects--Turkey--Istanbul--Congresses.


Istanbul (Turkey)--Antiquities, Byzantine--Congresses.
Istanbul (Turkey)--History--To 1453--Congresses.


Conference papers and proceedings.

DR725 / .I87 2015

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