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Document Details : Title: Multiple Rabbets on Doors in Iron Age Assyria and Western Iran Author(s): ROAF, M. Journal: Iranica Antiqua Volume: 33 Date: 1998 Pages: 57-80 DOI: 10.2143/IA.33.0.519123 Abstract : In Mesopotamia, where temples have been identified through foundation inscriptions and can be recognise by their distinctive plans, the presence of doorways with two or more external rabbets in a building is almost an infallible indicator that the building was a temple. A rabbet or rebate is a rectangular recess made along a projecting edge. In this article the author investigates how doorways with multiple rabbets were used in Iron Age Assyria and western Iran and whether this feature can be associated as closely with religious architecture in Iran as it can in Mesopotamia. |
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