The Barbar Temples - Couverture rigide

Andersen, H. Hellmuth; Hojlund, Flemming

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8788415279 ISBN 13 : 9788788415278

Editeur : Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, 2004

Synopsis

This book provides a detailed description of the three ancient temples unearthed between 1954-1961 near Barbar on the northern part of Bahrain island in the Persian Gulf. Two of the structures, from the centuries around 2000 BC, reveal traditions going back to Sumerian temples. A number of spectacular objects were found here, including cylindrical alabaster jars, a human-shaped copper mirror handle and the most famous object from the Barbar Temples, a bull's head of copper. Structurally, a chamber was found over a freshwater spring, indicating the presence of a water cult and perhaps forging a connection to Enki, the Mesopotamian god of the subterranean freshwater ocean, apsu. The temple-apsu is well known from cuneiform sources, but has been extremely difficult to identify in Mesopotamian excavations. The Barbar well chamber may be such an apsu, as the authors point out among their highly detailed descriptions and analysis of the finds. In two volumes.

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À propos de l'auteur

H. Hellmuth Andersen participated in the Danish excavations in the Arabian Gulf in the 1950s and 1960s. Flemming HojlundAes main research area is the pre-Islamic Arabian Gulf, and he is now preparing the Danish excavations at QalaAeat al-Bahrain for publication.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8788415279
• ISBN 13: 9788788415278
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 429
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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