From the Romans to the railways : the fate of antiquities in Asia Minor

From the Romans to the railways : the fate of antiquities in Asia Minor /

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Main Author: Greenhalgh, Michael
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Technology and change in history ; v. 13.
Subjects:
Turkey > Antiquities, Roman > Conservation and restoration.
Turkey > Antiquities, Greek > Conservation and restoration.
Turkey > Antiquities > Conservation and restoration.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

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505 0 0 |a Machine generated contents note:   |t Technology and Change - But Progress? --   |t Technologies Unsustainable without Expertise --   |t Links between Technology and Culture --   |t Classical Civilization: The Exception Not the Norm --   |t Romanization --   |t Learning about Asia Minor --   |t Exploring, Recording, Writing --   |t Preview of Conclusions --   |g 1.  |t Country and Its Travellers --   |g A.  |t Country and Its Travellers --   |t Asia Minor: A Little-Known Land --   |t Interior: Terra Incognita --   |t Its Low Population --   |t Industry and Idleness --   |t Non-Modem State --   |t "Nothing is Ever Repaired in Turkey" --   |g B.  |t Travellers and Technology --   |t Technology of Books, Catalogues and Education --   |t Technological Backwardness --   |t Lack of Charts and Roads --   |t Continuing Dearth of Good Maps --   |t Telescopes, Chronometers, Barometers and Cameras --   |t Firman: An Official Laissez-Passer --   |t Welcoming Locals --   |t Rushing Around Confusing Sites --   |t Decadence and Reuse --   |t Ten Green Bottles - Counting the Increase in Destruction --   |t Brigands and Nomads --   |t Disease --   |t Smyrna: A Western Haven --   |g 2.  |t Decline and Recycling of Ancient Settlements --   |t Technological Decline --   |t Earthquakes --   |t Cities Abandoned for Villages --   |t Cities Shrink into Villages --   |t Monumental Survivals --   |t Monumental Disappearances --   |t Site Which Survived: Hierapolis --   |t Part-Survival: Ephesus and Sagalassos --   |t Bursa: Ancient Town Obliterated by Rebuilding and Repairs --   |t Stripping Ancient Sites --   |t Locals --   |t Speedy Degradation of Sites --   |t Agriculture and Antiquities --   |t Making Sense of the Mess --   |t Deforestation and Desertification --   |t Site "Biographies" --   |t Assos --   |t Cyzicus --   |t Laodicea on the Lycus --   |t Nicomedia --   |t Tarsus --   |t Thyatira --   |t Constantinople --   |t Post-Byzantine Degradation --   |t Technological Gap between Constantinople and Asia Minor --   |t Conspicuous Theatres - Conspicuous Robbing --   |t Tomb Terraces and Streets of Tombs --   |t Standing Walls and the Dangers of Demolition --   |t Lime-Kilns and the Depletion of Antiquities --   |t Storks and Antiquities --   |t Fortress-Building from Antiquities --   |g 3.  |t Decline of the Road, Port and Transport Systems --   |t Super-Technology and Roman Roads --   |t Survival or Collapse of Roman Roads --   |t When Did the Decline of Roman Roads Begin? --   |t Disused Roman Roads, Crumbling Modem Roads --   |t Using Roads in Asia Minor --   |t Horse and Camels Confront Technologies Old and New --   |t Transporting Antiquities in the Nineteenth Century --   |t All-Weather Roads versus Railways --   |t Water Essential for Transporting Heavy Objects --   |t Antiquities, Modem Towns and Immigrants --   |t Ancient Bridges in Anatolia --   |t Repairing Ancient Bridges with Spolia --   |t Nineteenth-Century Degradations of Justinian's Sangarius Bridge --   |t Repairing Ancient Bridges with Wood --   |t New Post-Antique Bridges --   |t Milestones --   |t Modem Roads, Poor Technology --   |t Wheeled Traffic --   |t Disused Ancient Ports on the West and South Coasts --   |t Lack of Maintenance --   |t Rivers and Pestilence --   |t Reconstruction Projects --   |t Quarries and Transport --   |t Ancient Sites as Quarries --   |t New Railways, Worse Roads? --   |g 4.  |t Waterworks: Aqueducts, Fountains and Baths --   |t Roman Use of Water --   |t Water in Post-Antique Asia Minor --   |t Classical Baths and Moslem Hammans --   |t Antiquities Built into Fountains --   |t Fountains with Sarcophagi --   |t Fountain-Basins with Other Antiquities --   |t Using/Refurbishing Ancient Aqueducts, Constructing New Ones --   |t Sites Without Running Water --   |t Consequences of Broken Water Supplies --   |t Side: Nomads and Kilns, but No Water --   |t Cisterns Ancient and Modern --   |g 5.  |t Houses in Wood; Churches and Mosques in Marble --   |t Conflicting Traditions --   |t Earthquakes Again --   |t Hubris and Other Reasons --   |t Disparities Between Ancient and Modem Technologies --   |t Housing on Ancient Sites --   |t Building in Wood --   |t Building in Mud-Brick --   |t Earth Roofs and Antiquities --   |t Building with Antiquities --   |t Antiquities for Structure or for Show? --   |t Mosaic Floors --   |t Building with Antiquities and Wood --   |t Building with Antiquities and Mud-Brick --   |t Churches and Mosques --   |t Overview: Temples, Churches and Mosques --   |t Churches --   |t Mosques Beautified with Spolia --   |t Population Fluctuations and Surviving Antiquities --   |g 6.  |t Locals: Attitudes to Antiquities --   |t Greek Spirit and Romanticism --   |t Indifference --   |t Valuing Antiquities, Distinguishing Stones --   |t Superstition and Ignorance --   |t "Mischievous" Destruction --   |t Antiquities Laws and Museums --   |g 7.  |t Demands of Modernity: Filching the Building-Blocks of the Ancient World --   |t Nineteenth-Century Building Surge and Its Consequences --   |t Foreign Looting Shrinks: From Marble to Terracotta --   |t Looting by Locals Intensifies --   |t War: Armies Devour Antiquities --   |t Crimea --   |t Ancient Columns and Gunpowder Projectiles --   |t Ancient Columns into Projectiles --   |t Dardanelles Guns --   |t Sources for Projectiles --   |t Other Large Guns --   |t Modem Nineteenth-Century Warships Encounter Marble Technology --   |t Advantage, Turkey --   |t Columns as Guns, Ammunition or Decoration --   |t Buildings for the Modem State --   |t Railways: The New Dawn --   |t New Dawn for Commerce --   |t Clouds on the Horizon --   |t Slow, Costly and Non-Commercial Railway-Building --   |t Dangers of Foreign Technologies --   |t Asia Minor as a Sideshow --   |t Transport Over Drainage Technologies --   |t Imports Before Local Production --   |t Antiquities and Railways --   |t Constantinople --   |t Examples of Destruction by Railway --   |t Archaeological Dilemmas: Excavation on the Cheap, Protocols versus Access --   |t See and Export Antiquities More Quickly - by Railway --   |t Railways for Prosperity - and Lime-Kilns --   |g 8.  |t Classical Inscriptions: Discovery, Reuse and Treasure-Hunting --   |t Epigraphy the Basis for Archaeological Study --   |t Importance of Inscriptions --   |t Collecting Inscriptions --   |t Locals and Epigraphers --   |t Uncovering Inscriptions --   |t Inscriptions in Re-Use --   |t Wandering Stones and Site Identification --   |t Stones Too Large to Wander Far? --   |t Some Inscribed Bases Survive, But Not Their Statues --   |t Re-Use and Reworking Antiquities for Cemeteries --   |t Inscriptions and Hidden Treasure --   |t Locals Built the Monuments --   |t Foreigners Built the Monuments --   |t Treasure in Columns at Sardis and Aezani --   |t Funerary Antiquities and Treasure --   |t Manuscripts --   |g 9.  |t We Only Hear about Lord Elgin: Collecting Antiquities and Transporting Them Home --   |t Access, Excavate, Export --   |t Early Western Indifference to Antiquities --   |t Taking Antiquities Home --   |t Heavy Loads at Archaeological Sites --   |t Ephesus --   |t Halicarnassus --   |t Xanthus --   |t Cnidus: The Lion Monument --   |t Heavy Sarcophagi --   |t Gravity Wins --   |t Naval Technologies in the Service of Antiquities --   |t Dangers of Sea Transport --   |t Halicarnassus: A Fortress from the Mausoleum --   |t Site --   |t Monument --   |t Firman --   |t Technology and the Turks --   |t Pergamon: Antiquities Recovered from a Byzantine Wall --   |g 10.  |t Tourism Meets Modernity in Asia Minor --   |t Doing the Sights at Speed --   |t Ephesus Attracts Tourists --   |t Chip Off the Old Block: Kiln-Fodder or Souvenirs? --   |t Destruction of the Seljuk Walls of Konya --   |t Building the Walls --   |t Documenting the Walls --   |t Destroying the Walls --   |t Amasra, Ankara and Bursa --   |t Modernity for Tourists and Locals --   |t Source Works --   |t Modern Scholarship. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-431) and index. 
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