Research Catalog

Title

Petra rediscovered : lost city of the Nabataeans / Glenn Markoe, general editor.

Publication

New York : Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Markoe, Glenn, 1951-
• Cincinnati Art Museum.
• American Museum of Natural History.

Description

288 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 32 cm.

Subjects

• Petra (Extinct city) > Exhibitions
• Nabataeans > Exhibitions

Note

• Accompanies the traveling exhibition organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the American Museum of Natural History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-282) and index.

Contents

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, Steven E. Sidebotham -- Nabataean pottery / Stephan G. Schmid -- Dharih and Tannur : sanctuaries of central Nabataea / Francois Villeneuve, Zeidun al-Muheisen -- The Negev and the Nabataeans / Avraham Negev -- Nabataeans on the Dead Sea littoral / Konstantinos D. Politis, Hero Granger-Taylor -- 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 / Laila Nehme -- Carvings in the desert : the sculpture of Petra and Khirbet et-Tannur / Judith S. McKenzie -- The Khazneh [Treasury] / Andrew Stewart -- The Qasr al-Bint of Petra / Francois Larche, 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, Traianos Gagos.

Call Number

*ODHA+ 04-1791

ISBN

• 0810945371
• 0810991284 (pbk.)

LCCN

2003006209

OCLC

51886324

Title

Petra rediscovered : lost city of the Nabataeans / Glenn Markoe, general editor.

Imprint

New York : Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum, 2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-282) and index.

Added Author

Markoe, Glenn, 1951-

Cincinnati Art Museum.

American Museum of Natural History.

Research Call Number

*ODHA+ 04-1791