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Syria's Monuments : Their Survival and Destruction
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Title
Syria's Monuments : Their Survival and Destruction / by Michael Greenhalgh.
ISBN
9789004329577
9004329579
9789004334601
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Physical Description
vii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Syria's monuments : their survival and destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers' accounts, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, which describe religious buildings and housing in numbers and quality unknown elsewhere. The book charts the reasons why monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets the political and social context for the Empire's transformation toward a modern state, provoked by Western trade and example. An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and strategies for their resurrection, with plentiful references and web links"--Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Greenhalgh, Michael, author. Syria's monuments Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 23, 2017
Series
Heritage and identity : issues in cultural heritage protection, volume 5.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-479) and index.
Contents
The extent of Syria
Mapping Syria
The Syria of yesterday
The state of Syria in recent centuries
Governance
Earthquakes and disease
Trade
Circassians and other settlers amongst the monuments
Nomadic Arabs
Agriculture and desertification
Conclusion : impact of Ottoman decline on antiquities
Travel throughout Syria
Where to go and how to get there
Languages, dress and descriptions
Scholars in the East
The Bible as a guidebook
Changing horizons meet the unchanging East
Biblical monuments "identified"
Other guidebooks : Baedeker, Cook & Murray
Confected guidebooks : an example
Travel then tourism : the agony and the ecstasy
Taxes and robbery
Profiteering sheikhs
Haram/forbidden : access to Muslim sites
Architectural quality : is Syria worth visiting?
One-upmanship and verbal wars in travel narratives
Modernisation changes travelling in the unchanging East
Conclusion
The life and death of monuments
Superstitions and monuments
Treasure-hunting and locals' knowledge of the past
Vandalism
Roads milestones bridges
Railways
Aqueducts
Temples
Degradation
Locals and antiquities
Columns as structural tie-bars
Mosaics and veneers
Quarries and marble
Re-use
Ancient towns and villages and their houses
The seabord : harbours and ports north to south
Iskenderun
Seleucia Pieria
Lattakia
Banias
Tortosa/Tartus & Ruad
Tripoli
Byblos
Beirut
Sidon
Sarepta
Tyre
Acre
Haifa
Caesarea
Jaffa
Ascalon
Gaza
Aleppo and the north
Aleppo
Antioch
Cyrrhus & Menbij
Dead cities
Apamea & Qalaat Mudiq
Deir
Semaan & Saint Simeon
Hama & Homs
Qasr Ibn Wardan
Hosn Suleiman
Damascus and the centre
Damascus
Baalbek
Palmyra
Anjar, Medjel Anjar & the nearby temple
Bosra and the south
Bosra
Hauran
Shahba
Slim, Hit, Atil
Suweida
Qanawat
Salkhad
Deraa
Ledja
Ezraa
Burak & Mismiye
Bashan
Jaulan / Golan Heights
Counting the settlements
West of the River Jordan
Samaria Janin, Capernaum
Jerusalem
Herodium
Jericho & Hebron
Tiberias
Beisan
Beth Shean / Scythopolis
East of the River Jordan
Irbid
Pella
Yajuz
Mmm al-Jimal
Gadara
Difficult sites
Jerash, Amman, & Petra
Jerash
Amman
Um rasas
Iraq al-Amir
Madaba
Petra
Fortresses Roman, Muslim, Crusader
Building and rebuilding "Crusader" fortresses
Saphet
Shaizar
Baalbek
Beirut
Athlit
Kerak
Krak des Chevaliers
Desert castles
Qasr el-Hallabat
Mschatta and nearby antiquities
Qasr al-Heir west
Qasr al-Heir east
Roman fortresses
Qasr el-Abyad
Qasr el-Bai'j
Masada and its siege camps
Mayhem : archaeology, museums and mandates
Archaeology
Digging in Palestine
Filling western museums
The First World War and the French mandates
Conclusion
Epilogue : the monuments of Syria in 2016
Syria : timelines
History of archaeology and travel in Syria
Recent political/military developments in the region, and their sources
Websites detailing Syria's monuments
Damaged sites, monuments and museums
Photographic evidence of destruction in Syria
Guides/surveys of monuments and regions
Computer reconstructions
Conclusion : warning about "restoration".
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