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The Idea of Babylon

巴比伦的理念

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F011075/1
负责人：
Irving Finkel
金额：
$ 12.29万
依托单位：
British Museum
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF011075%2F1
关键词：
Idea Babylon

项目摘要

The Idea of Babylon is a study of the intricate and varied processes by which knowledge of the past is constructed, communicated and established in culture. The research brings the history of antiquarianism and archaeology together with cultural history, analysing the development of an archaeological approach within a broad cultural context for the representation of the ancient past that includes art, literature, music and theatre. The research will examine how the ancient city of Babylon has been perceived and represented bring the in later, predominantly European, culture, together with the history of the site's fascination for travellers, its rediscovery, exploration and finally excavation. Important areas include the views of Babylon contained in biblical sources; Greek histories; the accounts of medieval and later travellers; fine art, where the Tower of Babel and Belshazzar's Feast in particular have been major themes; literary representations; and antiquarian and archaeological writing themselves. These approaches to the ancient past are based on different epistemologies and produce very different kinds of information and meaning. This study is concerned with the interaction of these many sources, and the disjunctions between them, in the construction of knowledge. The research will be of interest to specialists in Mesopotamian archaeology for its thorough treatment of these processes in relation to Babylon, but also has a much wider relevance to those with an interest in the history of ideas and the relationship between scientific research and cultural life. The completed book will make an original contribution to the study of the history of archaeological thought, exploring in detail the hybrids that are created when knowledge of the past derived from, e.g., biblical and classical sources combines with empirical research in the representation of the past. It will be argued that such revealing hybrids are neither aberrations nor the exception to the rule in the construction of knowledge about the past, but rather are frequently occurring and often influential in both popular and academic thought. The book will also consider the recent history of the physical site of Babylon and its representation. This important aspect of the work will analyse the impact of serious damage to Iraq's cultural heritage on future archaeological research and in wider cultural terms. In this way the study will aim to allow the scale of Iraq's and the world's loss to be appreciated in broad context.

《巴比伦的观念》是对过去的知识在文化中被建构、传播和确立的复杂而多样的过程的研究。该研究将古物学和考古学的历史与文化史结合在一起，分析了在广泛的文化背景下考古方法的发展，以代表古代的过去，包括艺术，文学，音乐和戏剧。该研究将研究巴比伦古城是如何被感知和代表的，带来了后来的，主要是欧洲的文化，以及该遗址对旅行者的魅力，它的重新发现，探索和最终挖掘的历史。重要的领域包括圣经来源中所包含的巴比伦观点;希腊历史;中世纪和后来的旅行者的帐户;美术，其中巴别塔和伯沙撒的盛宴特别是主要主题;文学表现;以及古物和考古写作本身。这些研究古代的方法基于不同的认识论，产生了非常不同的信息和意义。本研究关注的是在知识的构建中，这些来源之间的相互作用以及它们之间的分离。这项研究将引起美索不达米亚考古学专家的兴趣，因为它彻底处理了与巴比伦有关的这些过程，但对于那些对思想史以及科学研究与文化生活之间的关系感兴趣的人来说，也具有更广泛的相关性。完成的书将对考古思想史的研究做出原创性贡献，详细探索当过去的知识来源于，例如，《圣经》和古典资料与对过去的再现的实证研究相结合。有人认为，这种揭示性的混合体既不是关于过去的知识的建构中的反常现象，也不是规则的例外，而是经常发生的，而且在流行思想和学术思想中都经常有影响力。这本书还将考虑巴比伦的物理站点及其代表的近代历史。这项工作的这一重要方面将分析对伊拉克文化遗产的严重破坏对今后考古研究和更广泛的文化方面的影响。通过这种方式，本研究报告的目的是使人们能够在广泛的背景下了解伊拉克和全世界损失的规模。