The Architecture of Petra
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
British Academy Monographs in Archaeology
ISBN-10
019727000X
ISBN-13
9780197270004
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1991
Print length
209 Pages
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An illustrated catalogue of the main monuments of Petra. Seeking the origins of Petra's particular architecture and its close relations with the architectural scenes on the walls of Pompeii, it examines the rock cut tombs of Medain Saleh (Saudi Arabia) and the little known architectural remains of Ptolemaic Alexandria.
This is an enormous and impressive book not only full of facts, but also solving mysteries. It provides a detailed and lavishly illustrated catalogue of the main monuments of Petra. Then, in seeking the origins of Petra's particular architecture and its close relations with the architectural scenes on the walls of Pompeii, Judith McKenzie examines the rock cut tombs of Medain Saleh (Saudi Arabia) and then the little known architectural remains of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Here lies her solution, for the earliest of the Petra-style baroque architecture is in Alexandria from where it spread east to Petra and west to Pompeii and thus elsewhere in the Roman World. It is an impressive study with a significant and satisfying conclusion.
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