Petra rediscovered
Subtitle: the lost city of the Nabataeans
By: Glenn Markoe, general editor.
Contributors: Markoe, Glenn, 1951-
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Nabataeans -- Exhibitions; Petra (Extinct city) -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Nabataeans in historical context / Glen W. Bowersock; title: The origins and emergence of the Nabataeans / Peter J. Parr; title: Languages, scripts, and the uses of writing among the Nabataeans / M.C.A. Macdonald; title: The Nabataean gods and their sanctuaries / Fawzi Zayadine; title: Nabataean trade / David F. Graf and Steven E. Sidebotham; title: Nabataean pottery / Stephan G. Schmid; title: Dharih and Tannur : sanctuaries of central Nabataea / Francois Villeneuve and Zeidun al-Muheisen; title: The Negev and the Nabataeans / Avraham Negev; title: Nabataeans on the Dead Sea littoral / Konstantinos D. Politis and Hero Granger-Taylor; title: The Nabataeans at Bosra and in southern Syria / Jean-Marie Dentzer; title: Petra : the first-comers / Norman N. Lewis; title: The real and the ideal : Petra in the minds and eyes of nineteenth-century British and American artist travelers / Briony Llewellyn; title: The rock-cut architecture of Petra / Robert Wenning; title: The Petra survey project / Laïla Nehmé; title: Carvings in the desert : the sculpture of Petra and Khirbet et-Tannur / Judith S. McKenzie; title: The khazneh / Andrew Stewart; title: The Qasr al-Bint of Petra / Franc̜ois Larché and Fawzi Zayadine; title: The great temple / Martha Sharp Joukowsky; title: The Temple of the Winged Lions / Philip C. Hammond; title: Petra; title: from tent to mansion : living on the terraces of Ez-Zantur / Bernhard Kolb; title: The Byzantine church at Petra / Zbigniew T. Fiema; title: Petra in the sixth century : the evidence of the carbonized papyri / Ludwig Koenen, Robert W. Daniel, and Traianos Gagos.