Bathhouses in Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia from Herod the Great to the Umayyads

Arleta Kowalewska (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2021
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-657-4 (ISBN)

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An overview of Roman bathhouses across Israel, Jordan and Syria reveal the social and cultural practices of the Roman, Byzantine and the Early Islamic periods.

Bathing culture was one of the pillars of Roman society and bathhouses are one of the largest categories of a particular type of construction excavated in the Roman world. The large number of surviving remains and their regional variety make bathhouses vital for the study of the local societies in the Roman-Byzantine period.

This book presents the archaeological evidence of close to 200 Roman-style bathhouses from the region of Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia, part of the provinces of the Roman East, constructed from the reign of Herod the Great (second half of the 1st century BCE) to the end of the Umayyad rule (mid-8th century CE). The bathing complexes of the Roman, Byzantine, and the Early Islamic periods, ranging from large public thermae to small bathing suites, are for the first time analysed as unified data with an unprecedented amount of detail, considering a variety of parameters - from dating and setting, through building techniques and materials, to plans and decorations. Typologies of the bathhouses and their components are supplemented by exploration of the socio-cultural insight provided by this particular type of construction. The historical narrative of the regional bathing facilities is updated in the light of new information. The full raw data used for the study is provided in the expandable open-access online database.

Arleta Kowalewska is Research Fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, and since 2016 she has co-directed the Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project. She completed her PhD at the University of Haifa in 2020. Her main research interest is Roman architecture, with a particular focus on bathhouses and masons' marks.

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Preface

Introduction

1.      Baths and bathing in Rome and the Roman East

2.      Bathing complexes in Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia

3.      Analysis of bathhouses of Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia

4.      Conclusions    1164.1. History of bathhouses in Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia

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Erscheinungsdatum	27.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	B/w and colour
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78925-657-7 / 1789256577
ISBN-13	978-1-78925-657-4 / 9781789256574
Zustand	Neuware