Mesopotamian Religious Architecture: Alexander through the Parthians

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This book is a comprehensive remedy of the survival and reworking of earlier forms of Mesopotamian religious architecture in the periods of foreign occupation of the Near East, first by Greeks, who established the Seleucid kingdoms after the conquests of Alexander the Great, and second by Parthians, who step by step took political keep watch over from the Greeks in the second one century B.C. The writer argues that Mesopotamian traditions remained extraordinarily necessary all through these periods and as much as the middle of the third century of the Common Era. She presents not only architectural analysis but a carefully documented picture of the mixture of peoples and beliefs on this focal region of the eastern Hellenistic world.

The Seleucids revived traditional religious forms and practices in old Mesopotamian cities, notably Uruk and Babylon, whilst drawing on Mesopotamian and other oriental traditions to create original religious architecture in new colonies, such as Ai Khanoum in Afghanistan. The effects of the Parthian conquest varied. The Seleucid temples of Uruk were destroyed, but Duray-Europos, Assur, and Hatra demonstrate the continued vitality of Mesopotamian architecture.

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