Levantine Architecture (Pre-Islamic)

>>1869239
Bump for interest.

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By the time of the Islamic conquest it was pretty much all Byzantine/Roman/Greek. Pic related is from 475 AD.

Earlier Canaanite (including Hebrews and Phoenicians) and Syrian civilizations had more Mesopotamian-style architecture.

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>>1869975
Caananite architecture.

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>>1869983
Israelite (early 9th century BC)

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>>1869989
Phoenician, though not Levantine.

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>>1870002
Syro-Hittite, 8th-9th century BC.

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>>1870012
More Syro-Hittite.

https://vimeo.com/93254854

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>>1870023
A Syro-Hittite temple.

>>1870029
Holy Shit

Its almost identical to the hebrew temple built for God

They even have an arc of the covenant like thing and a curtain

>>1869239
Bump
This shit is getting interesting.

>>1870410
No culture exists in a vacuum. That includes spiritual and moral ones.

>In case of a dispute, get away from it, disregard it! If a dispute involving you should flare up, calm it down. A dispute is a covered pit, a wall which can cover over its foes; it brings to mind what one has forgotten and makes an accusation against a man.

>Do not return evil to your adversary; requite with kindness the one who does evil to you, maintain justice for your enemy, be friendly to your enemy. Give food to eat, beer to drink, grant what is requested, provide for and treat with honor. At this one's god takes pleasure. It is pleasing to [REDACTED], who will repay him with favor. Do good things, be kind all your days.

Who wrote that and when, and where? Anybody know without Google-cheating?

>>1869989
I actually worked this site last summer.remember walking up the hill through this gate

>>1871458
Please tell me you took plenty of pictures.

>>1870023
That's pretty impressive.