Details

Subject(s)

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

Editor

• Raja, Rubina, 1975- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

With contributions from archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, and philologists, this book covers Palmyra's archaeological remains and history from its earliest phases in the pre-Roman era to the destruction of many of its monuments during the Syrian Civil War and subsequent looting. The authors give comprehensive overviews of already published evidence, as well as significant new findings and analyses from fieldwork, and cover a broad range of themes, which not only relate to the archaeology and history of the site, but also to its relationship with the rest of the ancient world as a major trade hub during the Roman period.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2024.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 11, 2023).

Contents

• Cover
• The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Maps
• 1 Palmyra-​Tadmor in the Syrian Desert: An Introduction to the Handbook of Palmyra
• Part One Setting and Landscape
• 2 Climate and Environment of Palmyra and the Syrian Desert
• 3 The Palmyrene: Hinterland and Sedentarization
• Part Two Tadmor/​Palmyra in a Longue Durée Perspective
• 4 Glimpses of Tadmūr Before Alexander: The Pre-​Hellenistic Evidence
• 5 Hellenistic Palmyra: A Fata Morgana?
• 6 Palmyra: The Development of an Ancient City
• 7 Palmyrene Identity and Community: Continuity and Change
• 8 Palmyra and Its 'Dark Ages' (273-​750): An Archaeological and Historical Reassessment
• 9 Palmyra in Late Antique and Medieval Times
• 10 Palmyra and the Third-​Century Crisis
• 11 Queen Zenobia: The Rise and Fall of Her Palmyra
• 12 Palmyra and the Military: From the Roman Period to the Islamic Conquest
• Part Three Palmyra and Language
• 13 A Bilingual World? Language and Epigraphy in Palmyra
• 14 The Palmyrene Tax Tariff
• 15 Aramaic Legal Language from Palmyrene Monumental Inscriptions
• Part Four Palmyra and Its Contacts
• 16 The Palmyrene Diaspora
• 17 Palmyrene Trading Networks
• 18 Palmyrenes in Rome
• 19 Palmyra and the Parthians
• 20 Palmyra and Dura-​Europos: Contact, Impact, and Differences
• Part Five Palmyra and Its Monuments
• 21 Urban Layout and Public Space: The Monuments of Palmyra in the Roman and Late Antique Periods
• 22 Domestic Architecture in Palmyra
• 23 Religious Architecture in Palmyra: The Temples and Sanctuaries
• 24 Built for Eternity: The Funerary Monuments of Palmyra
• 25 The Fortifications and Military Architecture of Palmyra
• Part Six Palmyra and Its Art
• 26 Public Sculptures from Palmyra
• 27 The Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture.
• 28 Palmyrene Women: Breaking the Glass Ceiling or Window Dressing?
• 29 Representations of Men in Palmyra
• 30 Religious Life and Priestly Representations in Palmyra
• 31 Children in Palmyra
• 32 The Production Economy of Funerary Portraiture
• 33 The Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra: Tokens for Religious Events
• 34 Palmyrene Coinage
• 35 Wall Paintings and Stucco Work in Palmyrene Funerary Hypogea
• 36 A Note on Quarries and Textiles in Palmyra
• 37 Postludium: Palmyra and the Civil War in Syria
• Index.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of Palmyra
• Palmyra

ISBN

• 0-19-085814-1
• 0-19-085812-5
• 0-19-085813-3

OCLC

1378115557

Doi

• 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858117.001.0001

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