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See Schick, Christian Communities of Palestine, esp. chap. 8.

Rudi Paret, “Die Entstehungszeit des islamischen Bilderverbots,” Kunst des Orients 11 (1976–1977), pp. 158–181, and Paret, “Textbelege zum islamischen Bilderverbot,” in Hans Fegers, ed., Das Werk des Künstlers, Hubert Schrade Festschrift (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1960), pp. 36–48; and Daan Van Reenen, “The Bilderverbot, A New Survey,” Der Islam 67 (1990), pp. 27–57.

Translation in Cyril Mango, Art of the Byzantine Empire 312–1453 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), pp. 152–153.

Bibliographic citations of the church sites where the deliberate damage occurred, along with many color photographs of the damage, can be found in Michele Piccirillo, The Mosaics of Jordan (Amman, Jordan: ACOR, 1993); in Robert Schick, The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule (Princeton, NJ: Darwin, 1995), esp. chap. 9; and in Piccirillo and Eugenia Alliata, Mount Nebo: New Archaeological Excavations, 1967–1997 (Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, 1998), esp. pp. 372–389.

Maximilian Streck, Assurbanipal und die letzen könige bis zum untergange Ninevehs, Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7 (Leipzig, Germany: Hinrichs, 1916), p. 255.

On the Akhet, see James P. Allen, Genesis in Egypt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 6, 11–12, 25.

Finnestad, Image of the World (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1985), pp. 12–13.

Finnestad, Temples of Ancient Egypt, p. 216.

The first quote is from Dominic Montserrat, Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt (London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996), p. 165; the second quote is from Bell “The New Kingdom ‘Divine’ Temple,” p. 137.

On public access to temples, see Lanny Bell, “The New Kingdom ‘Divine’ Temple: The Example of Luxor,” in Temples of Ancient Egypt, ed. Byron E. Shafer (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), pp. 135, 163–170; see also Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, “Temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods,” in Temples of Ancient Egypt, pp. 235–236.