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Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians

Proceedings of the International Conference Florence, February 6th-8th 2014 in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi
  • Edited by:
  • Anacleto D'Agostino,
  • Valentina Orsi,
  • Giulia Torri,

This book contains studies on the symbolic significance of the landscape for the communities inhabiting the central Anatolian plateau and the Upper Euphrates and Tigris valleys in the 2nd-1st millennia BC. Some of the scholars who attended to the international conference Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians held in Florence in February 2014, present here contributions on the religious, symbolic and social landscapes of Anatolia between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age. Archaeologists, hittitologists and historians highlight how the ancient populations perceived many elements of the environment, like mountains, rivers and rocks, but also atmospheric agents, and natural phenomena as essential part of their religious and ideological world. Analysing landscapes, architectures and topographies built by the Anatolian communities in the second and first millennia BC, the framework of a symbolic construction intended for specific actions and practices clearly emerges.

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Anacleto D'Agostino

University of Pisa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8433-9404

Valentina Orsi

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3657-4351

Giulia Torri

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9741-5963

Anacleto D’Agostino is Lecturer of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Pisa. He has participated in excavations and survey projects in Syria, Turkey and Iraq. Currently he is deputy director of the Archaeological Expedition at Uşaklı Höyük in Central Anatolia.

Valentina Orsi is Lecturer of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the Postgraduate School in Archaeology and Heritage at Florence University and Associate Researcher at the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts. She has conducted archaeological researches in Syria, Turkey and Iraq.

Giulia Torri is Associate Professor of Hittitology at Florence University. She has been researcher at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur – Mainz (Germany). She was epigraphist of the German excavation at Boǧazköy and now of the Expedition at Uşaklı Höyük in Central Anatolia.
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Book Title

Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians

Book Subtitle

Proceedings of the International Conference Florence, February 6th-8th 2014 in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi

Editors

Anacleto D'Agostino, Valentina Orsi, Giulia Torri

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170

Publication Year

2015

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© 2015 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6655-904-7

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978-88-6655-903-0

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978-88-6655-904-7

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978-88-9273-296-4

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Studia Asiana

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1974-7837

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2612-808X

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