The Architecture of Petra

by Judith McKenzie

The Petra tombstones in Jordan are famed for their "baroque" architecture carved out of pink sandstone by the Nabataeans. This comprehensive survey, the first volume in the new British Academy Monographs in Archaeology series, dates many of the famous Petra monuments against similar rock-cut tombs at Medain Saleh in Saudi Arabia. Through close examination of the monuments as well as the little known remains of Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Hellenistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019727000X
• ISBN13: 9780197270004
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 4.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 9.1" x 12.3"