Sasanian construction technology in the Maiden Tower Complex as evidence of Late Antiquity building activities in Baku (Azerbaijan)
| Author(s): |
Marina Döring-Williams
Luise Albrecht |
|---|---|
| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium |
| Published in: | Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories [2 vols.] |
| Page(s): | 581-589 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | Azerbaijan's today's capital Baku is located on the Absheron Peninsula at the Caspian Sea, an area that was part of the Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity. Despite its favourable geographical position no structural remains of this era had been discovered in Baku. A recently uncovered wall fragment in the Maiden Tower complex is to be considered completely unique in Baku's architecture due to its constructive peculiarities, masonry techniques and stonecutting. However, comparison of these exceptional masonry characteristics with constructive details of the architecture in the region of Caucasian Albania will now allow us to make a construction-historical assessment of this ‘isolated' masonry structure which shows that this wall could be part of the ambitious and complex Sasanian construction activities on the Caspian Sea coast in the sixth century. |
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