Transcultural Urbanity in the Syrian steppe-desertResafa from the 1st to the 13th century within its regional and overregional context

公元5、6世纪，圣塞尔吉奥斯殉难圣地雷萨法从一个晚期的罗马边防哨所发展成为东地中海最重要的朝圣地点之一。公元前8世纪2季度，欧玛雅王朝哈里发·希沙姆·b·阿卜杜勒·马利克在拜占庭城南地区建立了一个居所。在整个存在期间，该遗址因其位于两条重要的大篷车路线的交汇处而受益。应用的主要研究课题正是在这一特定的历史和环境配置中产生的。该项目旨在分析该遗址从形成到13世纪被遗弃的发展情况。从1952年到2011年内战爆发，雷萨法及其周围地区一直是系统考古田野调查的重点，因此该遗址的研究条件格外有利(自1975年作为傣族项目以来)。实际应用旨在解释50年来在最高学术层面下的研究结果。研究的第一步将是分析该遗址从罗马防御工事到城市朝圣地点和哈里发住宅的城市发展。研究还将首次整合对十字军东征之前最新建筑的系统清点和解释。与涉及MURO内部结构的研究同步，城市更广泛区域内的所有遗迹都将被纳入分析。通过这种布局，申请者创建的项目将在以下主要方面带来实质性的新成果：1.城市建设阶段和城市及其周围环境的发展；2.城市空间发展的主角；3.跨文化发展的空间。项目内的研究将总结到目前为止已经完成的所有基于材料的工作，并对其进行历时解释，涉及每个主题的所有书面来源。项目的上层问题将分析城市发展的原因和后果，区分发展的内生和外生因素。此外，还将考虑到环境、政治、社会、经济和宗教条件，讨论跨文化和跨文化进程。讨论将扩展到地理学、历史学和文化史中的中心论的理论模型和实际争论。毫无疑问，选举结果将超出叙利亚北部的地理范围。由于知识的特殊地位和丰富的材料来源，该项目的成果将成为周边空间改造进程的典范。该团队将汇集考古学家、建筑历史学家、历史学家和语言学家。致力于该项目主要研究主题的国际讲习班旨在优化来自该项目外部的学术交流咨询专家。

In the 5th and 6th c. AD, Resafa, holy site of the martyrship of Saint Sergios, developed from a Late Roman frontier post to one of the most important pilgrimage sites of the Eastern Mediterranean. In the 2nd quarter of the 8th c. the Umayyad caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik founded a residence in the area south of the byzantine city. Throughout the period of its existence the site profited from its position at the crossing of two important caravan routes. The main research topics of the application result from this specific historical und environmental disposition. The project aims to analyze the development of the site from its formation until its abandonment in the 13th c. As Resafa and its surroundings were in the focus of systematic archaeological fieldwork from 1952 until the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, research conditions at the site are exceptionally favorable (since 1975 as project of the DAI). The actual application aims to interpret the results of 50 years of research under superordinate scholarly aspects. The first step of research will be the analysis of the urban development of the site from the Roman fortification to an urban pilgrimage site and caliphal residence. For the first time research will also integrate the systematic inventory and interpretation of the latest structures until the Crusades. Synchronously to research referring to the structures intra muros, all remains in the wider area of the city will be integrated into the analysis. With this layout the applicants create a project that will deliver substantially new results to the following main aspects: 1. The urban construction phases and the development of the city and its surroundings, 2. Protagonists in the development of the urban space, 3. Spaces of transcultural development. Research within the project will summarize all material-based work that has been done until now and interpret it diachronically, regarding all written sources to each topic. Superordinate questions of the project will analyze the reasons and consequences of the urban development, differentiating between endogenous and exogenous factors of the development. Furthermore intercultural and transcultural processes will be discussed considering environmental, political, social, economic and religious conditions. The discussion will be extended to theoretical models and actual debates of Zentralortforschung in geography, history and cultural history. Without any doubt the results will exceed the geographical frame of Northern Syria. Due to the extraordinary status of knowledge and a rich pool of material sources the results of the project will become paradigmatic for transformation processes in peripheral spaces. The team will bring together archaeologists, building historians, historians, and philologists. International workshops that are dedicated to the main research topics of the project aim to optimize scholarly exchange consulting experts from outside the project.