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Villes achéménides : essai de définition

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In the frame of his archaeological works carried out in Iran, Rémy Boucharlat provided seminal contributions to our understanding of the Achaemenid royal foundations of Pasargadae and Persepolis. During the 2000’s, the restart of fieldwork on these sites using innovative methodological solutions was based on large-scale surveys beyond the royal palaces complexes. The new results obtained have shed light on the layout of these sites that were real cities as it has been firmly demonstrated by analyses of written sources and former archaeological data. A comprehensive view of these recent data allows us to suggest a draft reconstruction of the cities layouts. Pasargadae and Persepolis provide us with two comparable examples of how the Achaemenid Persians planned cities: they were designed as much open urban landscapes formed with several divided settled places sheltering residents and activities of the city, distributed over hundreds of hectares and encompassed by green areas. Compared to the “classic” Mesopotamian cities, the Persian cases were new types of cities characterized by the central place of gardens and parks as well as by the absence of a single populated and densely built core protected by ramparts. Characteristics shared with the Persian cities, that finally we describe as diffuse, are present in some sites scattered over the whole Empire suggesting that this new way of thinking the urban landscapes could have served as model. The thoughts presented here are the starting point of further projects concerning more accurate definitions and analyzes of these particular cityscapes.
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halshs-02419419, version 1 (19-12-2019)

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Sébastien Gondet. Villes achéménides : essai de définition. Gondet, Sébastien; Haerinck, Ernie. L’Orient est son jardin. Hommage à Rémy Boucharlat, Peeters, pp.185-210, 2018, Acta Iranica 58, 978-90-429-3450-4. ⟨halshs-02419419⟩
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