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Names: Ben-Dov, Jonathan, editor. | Rojas, Felipe, 1975– editor. | Carvings in and out of Time : Afterlives of Rock-cut Monuments in the Ancient Near East (2017 : Brown University)
Title: Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East / Jonathan Ben-Dov, Felipe Rojas.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566–2055 ; volume 123 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021015549 (print) | LCCN 2021015550 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004462076 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004462083 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Middle East—Antiquities. | Monuments—Middle East. | Inscriptions—Middle East. | Cultural landscapes—Middle East—History—To 1500. | Antiquities in literature. | Middle East—Historiography. | Historiography—Cross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC DS56 .A34 2021 (print) | LCC DS56 (ebook) | DDC 939.4—dc23
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ISSN 1566-2055
ISBN 978-90-04-46207-6 (hardback)
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