Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East: Religious Architecture in Syria, Iudaea/Palaestina and Provincia Arabia

by David Field, Deborah Cunliffe, Graham Brown, et al.

This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the Roman East and to its multiplicity of traditions pertaining to ethnic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842175262
• ISBN13: 9781842175262
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.4" x 11.0"