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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主要作者: Basile, Joseph J. (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: University of Chicago Press 2002
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2002, 卷: 65, 發布: 4, Pages: 255-258
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總結: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!
ISSN:2325-5404
Contains:Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3210855