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