Petra rediscovered : the lost city of the Nabataeans /
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Language: English
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New York :
Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum,
c2003.
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Call Number: ( F )DS154.9 .P48 2003
Table of Contents:
- 1.. The Nabataeans
- 1.. The Nabataeans in Historical Context
- 2.. The Origins and Emergence of the Nabataeans
- 3.. Languages, Scripts, and the Uses of Writing among the Nabataeans
- 4.. The Nabataean Gods and Their Sanctuaries
- 5.. Nabatean Trade
- 6.. Nabataean Pottery
- 7.. Dharih and Tannur: Sanctuaries of Cental Nabataea
- 8.. The Negev and the Nabataeans
- 9.. Nabataeans on the Dead Sea Littoral
- 10.. The Nabataeans at Bosra and in Southern Syria
- II.. Petra
- 11.. Petra: The First-Comers
- 12.. The Real and the Ideal: Petra in the Minds and Eyes of Nineteenth-Century British and American Artist-Travelers
- 13.. The Rock-Cut Architecture of Petra
- 14.. The Petra Survey Project
- 15.. Carvings in the Desert: The Sculpture of Petra and Khirbet et-Tannur
- 16.. The Khazneh
- 17.. The Qasr al-Bint of Petra
- 18.. The Great Temple
- 19.. The Temple of the Winged Lions
- 20.. Petra-From Tent to Mansion: Living on the Terraces of Ez-Zantur
- 21.. The Byzantine Church at Petra
- 22.. Petra in the Sixth Century: The Evidence of the Carbonized Papyri.