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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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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