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AbstractExcavations of residential areas in the north lower town of Zincirli, Turkey, the Iron Age Aramaean capital of Sam’al, show a change, in the second-half of the 8th century BC,… Click to show full abstract
AbstractExcavations of residential areas in the north lower town of Zincirli, Turkey, the Iron Age Aramaean capital of Sam’al, show a change, in the second-half of the 8th century BC, toward a stratified socio-economic organization with the foundation of an elite residential district. This change coincided with the onset of strong Neo-Assyrian imperial influence on the last local kings and intensified through the Assyrian provincial period. The development of the urban residential areas, as Sam’al changed from a royal to a provincial capital, reflects the different political aims of urbanization in the context of territorial state formation and imperialism.
Journal Title: Levant
Year Published: 2017
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