Cura aquarum in Israel II
Subtitle: water in antiquity : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region, Israel, 14 - 20 october 2012
By: edited by Christoph Ohlig & Tsvika Tsuk
Series: Schriften der Deutschen Wasserhistorischen Gesellschaft (DWhG) e.V -- volume 21; Schriften der Deutschen Wasserhistorischen Gesellschaft -- Bd. 21
Publisher: DWhG
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Siegburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783869483337; 9783869483377
Subjects: Aqueducts; Congresses; Water-supply; Antiquities
Other titles: Water in antiquity
Notes: "In memory of Mr. Yehuda Peleg, Prof. Ehud Netzer, Dr. David Amit."
Table of contents: title: Introduction and conclusions / Tsvika Tsuk; title: Is there light at the end of the tunnel? : excavations of the Tel Gezer water system : preliminary results of the 2010-12 seasons / Daniel A. Warner; title: Water to Jerusalem : the route and date of the upper and lower level aqueducts / David Amit and Shimon Gibson; title: Bedrock water tunnels in the southern Levant : deviations, surveying techniques and shaft construction / Amos Frumkin; title: The inverte siphon pipelines to Tel Bet Yeraḥ -al-Ṣinnabra / Yardenna Alexandre; title: When the Qanat systems were introduced to the Holy Land? / Yosef Porath; title: The early Islamic aqueducts to Ramla and Hebron / Amir Gorzalczany and David Amit; title: Taninim dam; title: a Byzantine flushing mechanism / Yehoshua (Yeshu) Dray; title: The ancient garden of Ramat Raḥel and its water installations / Boaz Gross, Yuval Gadot, Oded Lipschits; title: Touring Israel's ancient water systems / Tsika Tsuk; title: Water in Israel and in the Middle East : past, present, future / Shimon Tal; title: ^; title: Groundwater use in the Hittite Capital Hattuša 1600 BC / Hartmut Wittenberg; title: The Roman hydraulic engineering buildings of Antioch (Turkey) / Mathias Döring; title: The Roman water supply system of Pergamum / Henning Fahlbusch; title: The aqueducts and water supply of tralleis / E.J. Owens and Rafet Dinc̦; title: Ancient water systems of the Lamas C̦ayi and the surrounding hinterland / Dennis Murphy; title: The armed forces and the infrastructure of cities during the Roman Imperial period : the example of Judaea/Syria palaestina / Werner Eck; title: Water as weapon and military target in ancient Mesopotamian warfare / Ariel M. Bagg; title: Groundwater use and understanding in ancient times : lessons for today and tomorrow / Michael J. Knight; title: Dynamic control elements in Roman aqueducts : a reconnaissance study / Wilke D. Schram; title: The role of water in ancient sanctuaries : the sanctuary of Amphiaraos / Anna Androvitsanea; title: ^; title: When ceres commands her nymphs : an investigation of the relation between mills and aqueducts in the ancient mediterranean / Steganie Preißler; title: The glass kiln ("Horno de Vidrio") : a pressure drop tower in the water supply to the city of Toledo (Spain) during the Roman era / Maria Luisa Barahona; title: Karman Ermenek Yukari Çağlar : water tunnels and water supply system of ancient SBEDE / Mehmet Bildirici.