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Subject(s)

• Tadmur (Syria)—Civilization [Browse]
• Tadmur (Syria)—Antiquities [Browse]
• Inscriptions—Syria—Tadmur [Browse]

Editor

• Raja, Rubina, 1975- [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks series [More in this series]

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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