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Remarks on Samarra and the archaeology of large cities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Alastair Northedge
Alastair Northedge*
Affiliation:
Professeur d’Art et Archéologie islamiques, Université de Paris I, France (Email: Alastair.Northedge@univ-paris1.fr)
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Abstract

Samarra, built and abandoned during the ninth century, can claim to be the largest archaeological site in the world. Here, Alastair Northedge offers a brief account of what is known about it, and begins by placing it in the context of the world’s most famous historic cities.

Keywords

ninth–eleventh centuries ADIraqAbbasidcitiesurbanism
Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 303 , March 2005 , pp. 119 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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