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The Oxford handbook of Palmyra / edited by Rubina Raja.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Description
xviii, 612 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Tadmur (Syria)
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Civilization
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Tadmur (Syria)
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Antiquities
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Inscriptions
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Syria
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Tadmur
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Editor
Raja, Rubina, 1975-
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Series
Oxford handbooks
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Summary note
"The Handbook of Palmyra comprises 37 chapters written by specialists, ancient and global historians, archaeologists, epigraphers, and philologists, working on the ancient world, all of them with a particular interest in Palmyra, ancient Tadmor, the famous oasis city in the Syrian steppe desert. The handbook covers the site's archaeology and history from its pre-Roman phases, from the time of its deepest prehistory, until the recent destruction of many of the city's monuments and the looting that it has seen during the devastating conflict in Syria, which broke out in 2011. Numerous of the authors have conducted fieldwork in Palmyra prior to the 2011 conflict, and others have collected large corpora of evidence from the site or specialized in particular themes concerning the site and its relations across the ancient world. The handbook is structured in five main sections, proceeded by an introductory chapter and concluded with a postludium chapter that focuses on the time from the conflict in Syria broke out in 2011. A broad range of themes are covered in the book, which do not only relate to the development of the site, its archaeology, and history, but just as much to its position and networks throughout the ancient world from Antiquity until modern times. The chapters hold firsthand expert knowledge that is condensed for the readership in an easily accessible manner with updated bibliographies, making this the ideal place to begin research on this important location in the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Palmyra-Tadmor in the Syrian desert an introduction to the handbook of Palmyra / Rubina Raja
Part One. Setting and Landscape
Climate and environment of Palmyra and the Syrian desert / Eivind Heldaas Seland
The Palmyrene hinterland and sedentarization / Jørgen Christian Meyer
Part Two. Tadmor/Palmyra in a Longue Duře Perspective
Glimpses of tadmkr before alexander the pre-hellenistic evidence / John F. Healey
Hellenistic Palmyra a fata morgana? / Andreas Schmidt-Colinet
Palmyra the development of an ancient city / Michał Gawlikowski
Palmyrene identity and community continuity and change / Andrew M. Smith
Palmyra and its 'dark ages' (-) an archaeological and historical reassessment / Emanuele E. Intagliata
Palmyra in late antique and medieval times / Slawomir P. Kowalski
Palmyra and the third-century crisis / Udo Hartmann
Queen Zenobia the rise and fall of her Palmyra / Nathanael Andrade
Palmyra and the military from the Roman period to the Islamic conquest / Emanuele E. Intagliata
Part Three. Palmyra and Language
A bilingual world? : language and epigraphy in Palmyra / Jean-Baptiste Yon
The Palmyrene tax tariff / John F. Healey
Aramaic legal language from Palmyrene monumental inscriptions / Eleonora Cussini
Part Four. Palmyra and Its Contacts
The Palmyrene diaspora / Katia Sch̲rle
Palmyrene trading networks / Eivind Heldaas Seland
Palmyrenes in Rome / Eugenia Equini Schneider
Palmyra and the Parthians / Peter Edwell
Palmyra and Dura-Europos contact, impact, and differences / Lucinda Dirven
Part Five. Palmyra and Its Monuments
Urban layout and public space the monuments of Palmyra in the Roman and late antique periods / Emanuele E. Intagliata
Domestic architecture in Palmyra / Gioia Zenoni
Religious architecture in Palmyra the temples and sanctuaries / Robyn L. Le Blanc
Built for eternity the funerary monuments of Palmyra / Agnes Henning
The fortifications and military architecture of Palmyra / Karol Juchniewicz
Part Six. Palmyra and Its Art
Public sculptures from Palmyra / Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino
the Palmyrene funerary sculpture / Rubina Raja
Palmyrene women breaking the glass ceiling or window dressing? / Maura K. Heyn
Representations of men in Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn
Religious life and priestly representations in Palmyra / Rubina Raja
Children in Palmyra / Olympia Bobou
The production economy of funerary portraiture / Julia Steding
The banqueting tesserae from Palmyra tokens for religious events / Rubina Raja
Palmyrene coinage / Nathalia Breintoft Kristensen
Wall paintings and stucco work in Palmyrene funerary hypogea / Ȟl̈ne Eristov, [and others]
A note on quarries and textiles in Palmyra / Andreas Schmidt-Colinet
Postludium Palmyra and the civil war in Syria / Annie Sartre-Fauriat
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ISBN
9780190858117 (hardcover)
0190858117 (hardcover)
LCCN
2023017833
OCLC
1376505849
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