Petra rediscovered : the lost city of the Nabataeans

Weitere Verfasser: Markoe, Glenn
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum, 2003.
Ausgabe: 1. publ.
Umfang/Format: 288 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 32 cm.
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Nabataeans in historical context / Glen W. Bowersock
  • The origins and emergence of the Nabataeans / Peter J. Parr
  • Languages, scripts, and the uses of writing among the Nabataeans / M.C.A. Macdonald
  • The Nabataean gods and their sanctuaries / Fawzi Zayadine
  • Nabataean trade / David F. Graf and Steven E. Sidebotham
  • Nabataean pottery / Stephan G. Schmid
  • Dharih and Tannur : sanctuaries of central Nabataea / Francois Villeneuve and Zeidun al-Muheisen
  • The Negev and the Nabataeans / Avraham Negev
  • Nabataeans on the Dead Sea littoral / Konstantinos D. Politis and Hero Granger-Taylor
  • The Nabataeans at Bosra and in southern Syria / Jean-Marie Dentzer
  • Petra : the first-comers / Norman N. Lewis
  • The real and the ideal : Petra in the minds and eyes of nineteenth-century British and American artist travelers / Briony Llewellyn
  • The rock-cut architecture of Petra / Robert Wenning
  • The Petra survey project / Laïla Nehmé
  • Carvings in the desert : the sculpture of Petra and Khirbet et-Tannur / Judith S. McKenzie
  • The khazneh / Andrew Stewart
  • The Qasr al-Bint of Petra / Franc̜ois Larché and Fawzi Zayadine
  • The great temple / Martha Sharp Joukowsky
  • The Temple of the Winged Lions / Philip C. Hammond
  • Petra
  • from tent to mansion : living on the terraces of Ez-Zantur / Bernhard Kolb
  • The Byzantine church at Petra / Zbigniew T. Fiema
  • Petra in the sixth century : the evidence of the carbonized papyri / Ludwig Koenen, Robert W. Daniel, and Traianos Gagos.