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Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East - Religious Architecture in Syria, Iudaea/Palaestina and Provincia Arabia (Paperback)
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Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East - Religious Architecture in Syria, Iudaea/Palaestina and Provincia Arabia (Paperback)
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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 Jordan. Religious
architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the
Roman East and to its multiplicity of traditions pertaining to
ethnic and religious aspects as well as to the powerful influence
of Imperial Rome. The source of this power lay in the uniformity of
the architectural language, the inventory of forms, the choice of
styles and the spatial layout of the buildings. Thus, while temples
have an eclectic character, there is an underlying unity of form
comprising the podium, the stairway between the terminating walls
(antae) and the columns along the entrance front - in other words,
the axiality, frontality and symmetry of the temple as viewed from
outside. The temples and sanctuaries studied in this volume
demonstrate individual nuances of plan, spatial design, location in
the sanctuary and interrelations with the immediate vicinity but
can be divided into two main categories: Vitruvian temples (derived
from Hellenistic-Roman architecture) and Non-Vitruvian temples
(those with plans and spatial designs that cannot be analysed
according to architectural criteria such as those defined by
Vitruvius). The individual descriptions presented focus solely upon
the analysis of the external and internal space of the temples of
all types and do not involve any cultural or ethnic discussion.
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