Fontaines et adduction d’eau à Gerasa (Jerash, Jordanie)

Seigne, Jacques

doi:10.4000/syria.450

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“…[ 24 , 30 ]). A bronze workshop installation associated with the sanctuary of Zeus and dated to the 2nd century CE gives further evidence of production based metalworking particularly with Cu in the Roman city [ 30 , 31 ], while coinage was minted in Jerash regularly only in the first to the third century CE and for a very short period in the seventh century CE [ 32 ]. A recent study has demonstrated that Cu alloy coinage was leaded throughout the period from the 5th century CE until the middle of the 8th century CE [ 23 ].…”

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A Roman provincial city and its contamination legacy from artisanal and daily-life activities

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Roman metal use and related extraction activities resulted in heavy metal pollution and contamination, in particular of Pb near ancient mines and harbors, as well as producing a global atmospheric impact. New evidence from ancient Gerasa (Jerash), Jordan, suggests that small-scale but intense Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad period urban, artisanal, and everyday site activities contributed to substantial heavy metal contamination of the city and its hinterland wadi, even though no metal mining took place and hardly any lead water pipes were used. Distribution of heavy metal contaminants, especially Pb, observed in the urban soils and sediments within this ancient city and its hinterland wadi resulted from aeolian, fluvial, cultural and post-depositional processes. These represent the contamination pathways of an ancient city-hinterland setting and reflect long-term anthropogenic legacies at local and regional scales beginning in the Roman period. Thus, urban use and re-use of heavy metal sources should be factored into understanding historical global-scale contaminant distributions.

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A Roman provincial city and its contamination legacy from artisanal and daily-life activities

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“…In dry periods and during periods of weak governance, the limit crept back towards the 400 mm isohyet, where harvest is more dependable (Issar and Zohar 2007;Lewis 1987;Rosen 2007). In this landscape, traces of ancient water-management systems remain visible in the city: the North and South Water Gates, water infrastructure around the Ain Karawan spring (Kraeling 1938, 11;Lepaon, Turshan, and Weber-Karyotakis 2016;Lichtenberger and Raja 2016a;Seigne 2008) as well as across its hinterland, with stretches of rock-cut channels and cisterns (e.g. the Birketein bipartite cistern complex) and the irrigation features through the wadis (Boyer 2016a;2016b;2019;Lichtenberger and Raja 2016a;Stott and others 2018).…”

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Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources

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Kristiansen³

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Journal of Urban Archaeology

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“…In antiquity, the river was controlled by a water gate as it reached the city, situated at the height of the ancient North Gate (FIGURES 2, 5). Within Jerash there is a strong spring called Ain Karawan (Kraeling 1938, 11;Lichtenberger and Raja 2016a;Seigne 2004Seigne , 2008. This spring lies on a low elevation and therefore did not supply the higher areas of the city.…”

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Urban-Riverine Hinterland Synergies in Semi-Arid Environments: Millennial-Scale Change, Adaptations, and Environmental Responses at Gerasa/Jerash

Lichtenberger

Raja

Seland

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Journal of Field Archaeology

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This interdisciplinary study addresses issues of urban-riverine hinterland relationships in semi-arid environments over millennia at Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan, presenting research that stimulates new lines of enquiry with much broader implications than those relating to this single site. Through the presentation of new data on wadi-sediment responses to social and environmental change, we assess ways in which urban settlements, their hinterlands, and rivers interact over long time periods and how such changes may be read together with historical sources and shed new light on urban-hinterland dynamics. We explore the hypothesis that synergistic relationships between an urban core and its hinterland are essential to the long-term sustainability of both. Our integrated approach gives new insight into settlement dynamics and resource use and carries implications for our understanding of the present through the past.

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Fontaines et adduction d’eau à Gerasa (Jerash, Jordanie)

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

A Roman provincial city and its contamination legacy from artisanal and daily-life activities

A Roman provincial city and its contamination legacy from artisanal and daily-life activities

Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources

Urban-Riverine Hinterland Synergies in Semi-Arid Environments: Millennial-Scale Change, Adaptations, and Environmental Responses at Gerasa/Jerash

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