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Article Dans Une Revue Near Eastern Archaeology Année : 2021

The Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra. Reassessing a Nabataean Ritual Complex

Jack Green
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Noreen Doyle
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Pearce Paul Creasman
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The Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) in Petra is a Nabataean- and Roman-era ritual complex thought to have been founded in the early first century CE (banner photograph and fig. 1). It fell out of use following a major earthquake in 363 CE. This is a contextually rich site for the study of ancient ritual, economy, and society in the Nabataean and Greco-Roman world and part of a larger complex including workshops and domestic spaces. The deity (or deities) once worshiped there remains unknown. The most common suggestion is that the temple was dedicated to Al-‘Uzza, the Arabian divinity whose Greek equivalent was Aphrodite.
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halshs-03924997 , version 1 (05-01-2023)

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Pauline Piraud-Fournet, Jack Green, Noreen Doyle, Pearce Paul Creasman. The Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra. Reassessing a Nabataean Ritual Complex. Near Eastern Archaeology, 2021, 84 (4), pp.293-305. ⟨halshs-03924997⟩
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