EU H2020 Project "COMPUS (Civic community and public space in the ancient Near East. The case of..)": description, partecipants, costs and EC-fundings

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Project "COMPUS" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA Organization address address: DORSODURO 3246 city: VENEZIA postcode: 30123 website: www.unive.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Italy [IT]
Total cost	180˙277 €
EC max contribution	180˙277 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-01-11 to 2019-01-10

#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA	IT (VENEZIA)	coordinator	180˙277.00

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA

IT (VENEZIA)

coordinator

180˙277.00

Project objective

'This project proposes to study public space of the ancient Near Eastern cities as a material correlate of civic communities. Civic communities acted as a significant political factor throughout the history of the ancient Near East, both as institutions (e.g., assemblies) and as informal groups (the “town's crowd”). These forms of social aggregation were influential and often antagonistic alternatives to the monarchical and religious central powers. However, while the Temple and the Palace as architectonic materializations of dominant powers engaged entire generations of archaeologists, the traces left by civic communities in the urban texture of the ancient cities have received far less attention. This project approaches the study of past communal political life by analyzing the planning and use of central streets and squares at Hattusha, the capital of the Hittite Empire. The study is based on a granted access to unpublished topographical data and integrates three lines of methodological inquiry: topological analysis, urban design analysis, and ta 'contextual analysis'. Both heuristics and time focus originate from my previous studies on Syro-Hittite urbanism in the early Iron Age (1200-900 BCE). I came to understand that Late Bronze Age (14th-13th centuries BCE) urban politics are the key to city structure and political discourses for centuries to come. As case-study, Hattusha offers an optimal balance of historical relevance and data accessibility. The research aims at opening vistas on the interaction between built environment, informal civic habits, and communal institutions. It places itself across archaeology, anthropology, and urban studies. As a result, I expect an output of relevance not only for archaeologists, but for all scholars interested in comparative urban politics, ancient and modern. I also designed this research in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University to lay ground for future European-based research projects sharpen my career profile.'

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	Alessandra Gilibert A sensorial approach to ancient Ugarit published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:		2019-07-25
2020	Alessandra Gilibert et al The Misadventures of a Scribe at ancient Ugarit published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:		2019-07-25
2019	Alessandra Gilibert Urban squares at Late Bronze Age Ugarit: an archaeopolitical perspective. published pages: , ISSN: 1378-4641, DOI:	to be submitted	2019-07-25

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