id
	13963
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/13963
Resource template
	Conference Paper
Resource class
	fabio:ConferencePaper
Title
	Umayyad Arches, Vaults & Domes: Merging and Re-creation
Creator
	Arce, Ignacio
Publisher
	Construction History Society,
Date
	2006
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Umayyad architecture and construction techniques are, up to a point, the result of a successful eclectic merging of Late Roman traditions and Partho-Sassanian ones, due to the need to establishnew cities in the conquered territories and to create a new “aulic” imagery and an appropriatearchitectural framework for the new power. The seizing of key areas of the Byzantine empire(Syria, Egypt) and the whole of the Sassanian one (Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia), provided the new rulers with two endless sources of construction traditions, artisans and materials,that blended, and gave birth to new and idiosyncratic one.
Is Part Of
	Contributions to Early Islamic construction history
Spatial Coverage
	Ascot
Cited by
	10747
Pages
	195-220
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/9B5WEUY9/item-list

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