Ashlar
Ashlar

Author: Maud Devolder

Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 2875589644

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This volume focusses on ashlar masonry, probably the most elaborate construction technique of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, from a cross-regional perspective. The building practices and the uses of cutstone components and masonries in Egypt, Syria, the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Levant in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC are examined through a series of case studies and topical essays. The topics addressed include the terminology of ashlar building components and the typologies of its masonries, technical studies on the procurement, dressing, tool kits and construction techniques pertaining to cut stone, investigations into the place of ashlar in inter-regional exchanges and craft dissemination, the extent and signifi cance of the use of cut stone within the communities and regions, and the visual eff ects, social meanings, and symbolic and ideological values of ashlar.

Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture

Author: Hazel Conway

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780415320580

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Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach.

The Building of the First Temple
The Building of the First Temple

Author: Peter Dubovský

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9783161538377

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What can we say about 1 Kings 6-8 that attributes the construction of the temple in its full glory to Solomon? Peter Dubovsky approaches these texts from the diachronic point of view by investigating evidence gathered from the ancient Near East demonstrating that temples were often changed. He analyzes biblical texts indicating that the first temple underwent some important changes. This result leads to the final step of his investigation: he offers a minimalist version of a chronological development of the first temple and ventures to offer a more nuanced model. This conclusion, on the one hand, should be ultimately confronted with the results of archaeological excavation once they become available; on the other hand, this study can point to some nuances that only a text can preserve and no archaeologist can ever unearth.

Ancient Building in Cyprus
Ancient Building in Cyprus

Author: George R. H. Wright

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9789004095472

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The wealth of excavation in Cyprus conducted across a period of nearly a century and a half has revealed much evidence of ancient building of all functional categories. This picture extends over a vast range of time (ca. 10,000 years) since Cyprus is probably the place where the earliest substantial building known, the Neolithic round house style is better presented than anywhere else in the world. It is the aim of this book to set forth and document the building tradition which hitherto has received no detailed exposition. The book will fill several gaps in the library shelves at one and the same time: architectural history that presents all the archaeological evidence.