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1 online resource |
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Intro; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Color Plates, Figures and Tables; Part I: Introduction, Methodology, Summarizing the Data, Discussion; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. How Is this Study Organized?; 1.2. The Research Questions; 1.3. Definition of Recessed Openings; 1.4. Recessed Openings: History of Research; Chapter 2: Methodology; 2.1. Identifying the Motif; 2.2. Selection of Samples; 2.3. Geographical and Chronological Boundaries; 2.4. Dating the Samples; 2.5. Presentation of the Data; 2.6. Subdivision of the Data |
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Chapter 3: Summarizing the Data3.1. Categories of Representations; 3.2. Chronology of Recessed Openings; 3.3. Geography of Recessed Openings; Chapter 4: Discussion; 4.1. Local Developments or Diffusion?; 4.2. The Adaptation of Recessed Openings; 4.3. Recessed Openings as Decoration; 4.4. Recessed Openings as an Icon of Social Order; 4.5. Recessed Openings as a Liminal Marker; 4.6. Conclusions; Part II: The Data: Recessed Openings in Architecture, Iconography and Text; Chapter 5: Recessed Openings from Late Prehistoric Mesopotamia (fifth and fourth millennia BCE) |
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Chapter 6: Recessed Openings of the World's Earliest Cities (late fourth and third millennia BCE Mesopotamia)Chapter 7: Recessed Openings in Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamia and Adjacent Regions; Chapter 8: Recessed Openings in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia; Chapter 9: Recessed Openings in the Iron Age and Persian Period in the Levant, Sardinia and Carthage (10th to fourth centuries BCE); Chapter 10: Recessed Openings in Late Antiquity Judaism; Chapter 11: Recessed Openings in the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (sixth century BCE to third century CE) |
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Chapter 12: Recessed Openings in Early Christian Architecture: Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic (fourth century to 13th century CE)Chapter 13: Recessed Openings of Later Periods; References; Plate section |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Doorways -- History
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Thresholds (Doorsills) -- History
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Church doorways -- History
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design.
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ARCHITECTURE -- General.
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Church doorways
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Doorways
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Thresholds (Doorsills)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Garfinkel, Yosef, author
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| ISBN |
9781789250770 |
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1789250773 |
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9781789250794 |
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178925079X |
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