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High Place: symbolism and monumentality on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Sandra Scham
Sandra Scham*
Affiliation:
Near Eastern Archaeology, American Schools of Oriental Research (Email: Sscham@anth.umd.edu)
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Abstract

Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the Haram al-Sharif, is one of the most iconic archaeological sites in the world. The author relates its functions to that of other local prehistoric high places, and in tracing its history up to the present day draws a distinction between state-sponsored and popular shrines.

Keywords

JerusalemTemple Mountmonumentality
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 301 , September 2004 , pp. 647 - 660
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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