Two Visual Languages at Petra: Aniconic and Representational Sculpture of the Great Temple
At the Petra Great Temple a number of figural relief panels depicting Classical deities were recovered beside two aniconic betyls. These two sculptural types reflect an important dichotomy in Nabataean art-the adoption by the Nabataeans of Hellenistic-Roman forms of representation together with the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2002
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2002, Volume: 65, Issue: 4, Pages: 255-258 |
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| Summary: | At the Petra Great Temple a number of figural relief panels depicting Classical deities were recovered beside two aniconic betyls. These two sculptural types reflect an important dichotomy in Nabataean art-the adoption by the Nabataeans of Hellenistic-Roman forms of representation together with the persistence of an Arabian/Semitic tradition of depicting deities aniconically. How does the author account for these two, seemingly contradictory, forms of divine image? Read on! |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210855 |