Tours funéraires d'Arabie (les) : nefesh monumentales
The most famous funerary towers in the ancient Near East are those from Palmyra, called nefesh in some associated inscriptions. Similar monuments can be found in other sites in Syria and in the Euphrates Valley. Most of them date from the first centuries AD. However, this architectural tradition in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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IFAPO
1997
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Syria
Year: 1997, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-98 |
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| Summary: | The most famous funerary towers in the ancient Near East are those from Palmyra, called nefesh in some associated inscriptions. Similar monuments can be found in other sites in Syria and in the Euphrates Valley. Most of them date from the first centuries AD. However, this architectural tradition in relation to funeral practices can be found also in Arabia, in the latter centuries before the Christian Era, in Mleiha, Qaryat al-Fau and Petra. The distribution of these monuments provides us with some light on their origin, and witnesses the common roots of some human communities which settled on the borderlands of the Arabian desert in the latter centuries BC. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Syria
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3406/syria.1997.7540 |