Palmyra in perspective /

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Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2024] ©2024
Description:	xiii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Language:	English French
Series:	Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history ; volume 11 Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history ; v. 11.
Subject:	Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Congresses. Portrait sculpture, Roman -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Congresses. Relief (Sculpture), Roman -- Syria -- Tadmur -- Congresses. Tadmur (Syria) -- Antiquities, Roman -- Congresses.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13450009

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Other authors / contributors:	Raja, Rubina, 1975- editor. Palmyra Portrait Project, sponsoring body. Aarhus universitet, sponsoring body. Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab, host institution.
ISBN:	2503610323 9782503610320
Notes:	Papers originally presented at the Palmyra in Perspective conference December 8-9, 2022, sponsored by Arhaus University, and held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English, with one contribution in French.
Summary:	"The famous oasis city of Palmyra, located in the Syrian Desert, has long been the subject of scholarly research; and over the last decade, it has been the focus of three key projects based at Aarhus University in Denmark. Together, these projects have yielded results that have shed new light on Palmyra and have profoundly changed what we know about both the city itself, and its place in the wider Roman Empire, through a focus on sculptural production and the sustainability and economy that underpinned this, urban development, excavation history, and legacy data. This volume, based on a conference organized under the auspices of the Palmyra research projects in Aarhus, draws together papers that reflect on our understanding of Palmyra up to now, and pave the way for new lines of enquiry. Experts in the field engage with discussions of best practice, offer new perspectives on the city, its society, and its environs, and outline approaches that will allow research to continue to break new ground in our understanding of Palmyra."--

Table of Contents:

Palmyra in perspective : a decade of research in retrospect / Rubina Raja
Harald Ingholt on Palmyra in his own words: audience, language and contexts in Ingholt's archaeological reports, newspaper articles, and field diaries / Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, and Julia Steding
Shifting our perspective on the female portraits / Maura K. Heyn
Perspectives on the Palmyrene religious epigraphy : cultural context and organization of religious life / Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
Revisiting the Palmyrene pantheon : methodological considerations on the many and the rew - the nature of the evidence / Rubina Raja
The contribution of the Palmyra Portrait Project to research on the epigraphy of Palmyra / Jean-Baptiste Yon
Perspectives on Palmyrene long-distance trade / Eivind Heldaas Seland
Small coins, big implications? / Kevin Butcher
Palmyra and the problem of Parthian art / Henry P. Colburn
Late Antique and early Islamic Palmyra in perspective : the potential and limits of incomplete datasets / Emanuele E. Intagliata and Alberto Bacchetta
Documents pour l'histoire de l'archéologie au temps du mandat français en Syrie : IV. Le "Service des Antiquités" de la République Française au Levant durant ses premières phases : "Histoire d'une réussite archéologique" / Michel Al-Maqdissi
The Sanctuary of Bel in perspective : selective destructions, selective memories, selective realities / Jen A. Baird, Zena Kamash, and Rubina Raja
The Hauran needs Palmyra / Maurice Sartre
Does Palmyra still have a future? / Annie Sartre-Fauriat.

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