Arleta Kowalewska, Bathhouses in Iudaea, Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia from Herod the Great to the Umayyads. Oxford: Oxbow, 2021. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781789256574 $60.00.Review by
Stefanie Hoss, University of Cologne. shoss0@uni-koeln.de... The book under review analyses the development of bathhouses in the Near East, focusing on the architectural history of the buildings (building, rebuilding or disuse of rooms), their technical installations (hypocaust, water installations) and the various embellishments (marble incrustations, mosaics, wall painting) of the architecture. ...
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