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Temples and Sanctuaries from the Early Iron Age Levant - Recovery After Collapse (Hardcover)
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Temples and Sanctuaries from the Early Iron Age Levant - Recovery After Collapse (Hardcover)
Series: History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant
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The vision for this impressive work on temple architecture in the
Levant grew out of the author's work on Roman temple designs on the
Iberian Peninsula and continual references to Semitic influences on
the designs of sanctuaries both on the Peninsula and in North
Africa. It was assumed that Phoenician colonization had brought
with it the full flowering of Levantine architectural forms. As
Mierse began to search for relevant material on the ancient Levant,
however, he discovered that no overall synthesis had ever been
written, and it was virtually impossible to recognize and isolate
Semitic elements in architectural forms. This book addresses this
need. The analysis presented here is comparative and follows the
methodology most commonly employed by architectural historians
throughout the twentieth century. It is a formalist approach and
permits the isolation of lines of continuity and the detection of
discontinuity. While Mierse relies heavily on this traditional
method, he also introduces some approaches from the postprocessual
school of archaeology in its attempts to discern an appropriate way
for cult to be investigated by archaeology. The sanctuaries that
this book presents were erected between the end of the Late Bronze
Age (conventionally assigned the date of 1200 B.C.E.) and the
annexation of the Levantine region into the Assyrian Empire (when
Mesopotamia again became highly influential in the region). The
topic concerns temples that were produced during the period when
the Levant was its own entity and politically independent of Egypt,
Mesopotamia, or Anatolia. During this period, the designs chosen
for inclusion in this book must reflect local choices rather than
resulting from imposed outside concepts. The architecture that
emerged in the wake of the downfall of the Late Bronze Age and the
subsequent reemergence of social cohesiveness manifested
significant changes in form and function. The five centuries under
review reveal exciting developments in sacred architecture and show
that, although the architects of the first millennium B.C.E.
maintained important lines of continuity with the developments of
the previous two millennia, they were also capable of creating
novel forms to meet new needs. Included in this fascinating volume
are 90 pages of photos, drawings, floor plans, and maps.
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