Main entry:

Wightman, G. J.

Title & Author:

Sacred spaces : religious architecture in the ancient world / G.J. Wightman.

Publication:

Louvain [Belgium] ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2007.

Description:

xxxi, 1156 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm.

Series:

Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 22

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1033-1109) and index.
The sacred mountain : Mesopotamia and Elam -- Houses of eternity : Egypt of the Pharaohs -- Face to face with God : Syria-Palestine -- The thousand gods of Hatti : Anatolia before the Greeks -- Dilmun and the spice kingdoms : Arabian Peninsula & Persian Gulf -- Megaliths, earthworks & sacred grtoves : Europe before the Romans -- Potnia & Labrys : Minoans, Mycenaeans and early Cypriotes -- The goddess and the bull : the pre-classical West Mediterranean -- A harmony of tensions : Greece and the Hellenic world -- Templum caeleste : Etruscan and Roman Italy -- The stamp of Rome : the Western Roman provinces -- Where East meets West : Roman East and the Parthian frontier -- Cults of fire & water : the Iranian world and central Asia -- Footsteps of the Buddha : pre-Gupta India -- Heaven, earth & ancestors : China from the neolithic to the Han -- Land of the four quarters : pre-Inca Peru and South America -- Children of the jaguar : the preclassic period in MesoAmerica -- The land as temple : archaic & earlier woodland North America -- Idenity and meaning -- The language of sacred space -- Text and image.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9042918039 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9789042918030 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Temples.
Religious architecture.
Architecture and religion.
Architecture antique.
Architecture et religion.
Architecture religieuse.
religious buildings.
temples (institutions)
Sakralbau
Architecture, Ancient.
Sacred space

Added entries:

Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 22.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255776
Call No.: BIB 186053
Status: Available