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Temples and sanctuaries in the Roman East : religious architecture in Syria, Iudaea/Palaestina and Provincia Arabia /

This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Segal, Arthur
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2013]
Subjects:
Temples, Roman > Syria.
Temples, Roman > Palestine.
Temples, Roman > Arabia, Roman.
Temples romains > Syrie.
Temples romains > Palestine.
Temples, Roman.
Middle East > Arabia, Roman.
Middle East > Palestine.
Syria.
Archäologische Stätte
Römerzeit
Tempel.
Heiligtum
Architektur
Typologie
Levante
Römisches Reich > Ostprovinzen
Syrien
Israel
Arabia
Temples, Roman > Israel.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Part I
  • ch. 1 Temples in the Roman East: Typological Analysis
  • Vitruvian Temples
  • Non-Vitruvian Temples
  • Nabataean Temples
  • ch. 2 Sanctuaries in the Roman East: Typological Analysis
  • Urban Sanctuaries
  • Extra-urban Sanctuaries
  • Part II
  • Corpus of Temples and Sanctuaries
  • Kal'at Kalota: Two Temples (1, 2)
  • Burdj Bakira (Bourdj Baqirah): Temple of Zeus (3)
  • Srir: Temple of Zeus (4)
  • Ma'aishurin (Ma'ashurin): Temple (5)
  • Isriyeh (Esriye): Temple (6)
  • Hossn-Soleiman (Baitokaike or Baetocaece): two Sanctuaries with three Temples (7, 8, 9)
  • Palmyra: The Sanctuary and Temple of Allat (10)
  • Palmyra: The Sanctuary and Temple of Nebu (Nabu) (11)
  • Palmyra: The Sanctuary and Temple of Baal Shamin (12)
  • Palmyra: Sanctuary and Temple of Bel (13)
  • Hossn Sfiri (Sfire), (Hosn es-Sefiri, Hosn Sfire): Sanctuary with three Temples (14, 15, 16)
  • Bziza (Beziza): Temple (17).
  • Contents note continued: Kal'at Fakra (Qal'at Fakra): Sanctuary with two Temples (18, 19)
  • Heliopolis (Baalbek): Sanctuary and Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus (20)
  • Heliopolis (Baalbek): Temple of Bacchus (21)
  • Heliopolis (Baalbek): Temple of Venus (22)
  • Niha and Hossn (Hosn) Niha: Two Sanctuaries, each incorporating two Temples (23, 24, 25, 26)
  • Qasr Nimrud (Nimroud): Temple (27)
  • Dmer (Dmeir, Doumeir): Temple for Imperial Cult (28)
  • Damascus: Sanctuary of Jupiter Damascenus (29)
  • Ain Hersha (Ain Hircha, Ain Horche): Sanctuary and Temple (30)
  • Mismiyeh (Masmiye, Musmieh): Sanctuary and Temple (31)
  • Sahr: Sanctuary with a Temple and a Theatre (32)
  • Is Sanamen (Sanamein): Sanctuary and Temple of Tyche (33)
  • Kedesh (Cadasa, Tell Qedesh): Sanctuary and Temple (34)
  • Sur: Sanctuary and Temple (35)
  • Il-Haiyat (Heiyat): The Kalybe Temple (36)
  • Umm Iz-Zetun: The Kalybe Temple (37)
  • Shakka (Shaqqa): The Kalybe Temple (38).
  • Contents note continued: Brekeh (Boureike): Temple (39)
  • Philippopolis (Shehba, Shuhba, Shahba): The Hexastyle Temple (40)
  • Philippopolis (Shehba, Shuhba, Shahba): Temple for the Imperial Cult (41)
  • Der Smedj (Deir es-Smeid): Sanctuary without a Temple (42)
  • Slem (Sleim, Selaima, Selaema): Temple (43)
  • Kanawat (Kanata, Kanatha, Qanawat): Temple of Zeus (44)
  • Kanawat (Kanata, Kanatha, Qanawat): Temple of Rabbos (Helios), Peripteral Temple (45)
  • Kanawat (Kanata, Kanatha, Qanawat): Temple C (the Seraya Temple) (46)
  • Atil: Two temples (47, 48)
  • Si (Seeia, Seia): Sanctuary with three Temples (49, 50, 51)
  • Musheneff: Sanctuary and Temple (52)
  • Suweida (Suweda, Souweida, Suwaida): The Peripteral Temple (53)
  • Maiyamas (Miyamas): Two Temples (54, 55)
  • Hebran: Sanctuary and Temple (56)
  • Bosra (Bostra): Temple for the Imperial Cult (57)
  • Beth Shean (Scythopolis): Temple on the Tel (58)
  • Beth Shean (Scythopolis): The Central Temple (59).
  • Contents note continued: Il-Umta'iyeh: Temple (60)
  • Umm El-Jimal (Umm Idj-Djimal, Oumm el-Djimal): Temple (61)
  • Gerasa (Jerash), Birketein: Sanctuary incorporating a theatre and a pool (62)
  • Gerasa (Jerash): Sanctuary and Temple of Artemis (63)
  • Gerasa (Jerash): The Cathedral Sanctuary (64)
  • Gerasa (Jerash): Sanctuary and Temple C (65)
  • Gerasa (Jerash): Sanctuary and Temple of Zeus (66)
  • Samaria (Sebaste): Sanctuary and Temple of Augustus (67)
  • Samaria (Sebaste): Sanctuary and Temple of Kore (68)
  • Mount Gerizim (er-Ras): Sanctuary and Temple of Zeus (69)
  • Philadelphia (Amman): Sanctuary and Temple of Hercules (70)
  • Philadelphia (Amman): The "Nymphaeum" (71)
  • Jerusalem: Temple Mount Sanctuary (72)
  • Dibon (Dhiban): Nabataean Sanctuary and Temple (73)
  • Qasr Raba (Qasr Rabbah, Qasr er-Rabbah): Nabataean Temple (74)
  • Rabba (er-Rabbah): Temple (75)
  • Qasrawet: Two Nabataean Temples (76, 77)
  • Dhat-Ras: Temple (78).
  • Contents note continued: Mahaiy (Mhayy): Nabataean Temple (79)
  • Khirbet et-Tannur: Nabataean Sanctuary (80)
  • Khirbet edh-Dharih (Dherih): Nabataean Sanctuary and Temple (81)
  • Tawaneh (Thuwaneh, Thoana): Nabatean Temple (82)
  • Petra: Temple of the Winged Lion (83)
  • Petra: Qasr el-Bint (Qasr Firaun): Nabataean Sanctuary and Temple (84)
  • Petra: Southern Sanctuary and Temple (The Great Temple Sanctuary) (85)
  • Petra: The Small Temple (The Hexastyle-Prostyle Temple) (86)
  • Er-Ram (Iram): Nabataean Temple (87)
  • Part III.