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Palmyra and the East
, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xx + 181 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:103 b/w, 3 col., 6 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503598253.
Summary The ancient caravan city of Palmyra, although located in the Syrian Desert, was very much a cultural locus, a place where peoples, goods, and ideas met and mingled from as far afield as Europe to the west and India and China to the east. It was a city that stood balanced between the power of the Roman Empire to one side, and the Parthian Empire to the other. Yet despite the city's location at a cultural crossroads, and its greater proximity to Parthia than Rome, scholars focusing on Palmyra have traditionally focused on links with the west, while relatively little attention has been paid to the threads that wove a connection between Palmyra and regions further to the east. This edited volume seeks to address this lacuna in scholarship by offering an in-depth exploration of Palmyra's connections with its eastern neighbours in the first three centuries ad. The papers gathered here examine the city's art, architecture, and material finds, its languages and inscriptions, its political interactions, social life, and religious identity from a time when Palmyra was at the height of its powers in order to shed light on the city's own distinctive identity, as well as its close ? and often tense ? relationships with Parthia and beyond. Together, these contributions offer fascinating new insights into Palmyra's dynamic relationships with the regions to its east, as well as on how these influences underpinned and were diffused throughout Palmyrene culture. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction ? Palmyra and the East: Reassessing an Oasis City and its Cultural Relations KENNETH LAPATIN and RUBINA RAJA Part I. Language, History, and Trade 1. Language as Power: Aramaic at (and East of ) Palmyra CATHERINE E. BONESHO. 2. Palmyra's Maritime Trade KATIA SCH RLE 3. From Palmyra to India: How the East Was Won JEAN-BAPTISTE YON 4. Palmyra and the Sasanians in the Third Century AD TOURAJ DARYAEE 5. Zenobia and the East NATHANAEL J. ANDRADE 6. The Fate of Palmyra and the East after AD 273: A Few Remarks on Trade, Economy, and Connectivity in Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Period EMANUELE E. INTAGLIATA Part II. Art and Archaeology 7. Palmyrene Funerary Art between East and West: Reclining Women in Funerary Sculpture RUBINA RAJA 8. Ashurbanipal and the Reclining Banqueter in Palmyra MAURA K. HEYN 9. So-Called 'Servants' or 'Pages' in Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture FRED ALBERTSON 10. Notes on Some Palmyrene Religious Imagery TED KAIZER 11. A Palmyrene Child at Dura-Europos LISA R. BRODY 12. Edessa and the Sculpture of Greater North Mesopotamia in the Romano-Parthian Period MICHAEL BL MER Index
Palmyra in Perspective
, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, xvi + 270 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:118 b/w, 95 col., 3 tables b/w., 1 maps color, Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503610320.
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 List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1. Palmyra in Perspective: A Decade of Research in Retrospective Rubina Raja 2. 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 3. Shifting our Perspective on the Female Portraits Maura K. Heyn 4. Perspectives on the Palmyrene Religious Epigraphy: Cultural Context and Organization of Religious Life Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider 5. Revisiting the Palmyrene Pantheon: Methodological Considerations on the Many and the Few - The Nature of the Evidence Rubina Raja 6. The Contribution of the Palmyra Portrait Project to Research on the Epigraphy of Palmyra Jean-Baptiste Yon 7. Perspectives on Palmyrene Long-Distance Trade Eivind Heldaas Seland 8. Small Coins, Big Implications? Kevin Butcher 9. Palmyra and the Problem of Parthian Art Henry P. Colburn 10. Late Antique and Early Islamic Palmyra in Perspective: The Potential and Limits of Incomplete Datasets Emanuele E. Intagliata and Alberto Bacchetta 11. Documents pour l'histoire de l'arch ologie au temps du mandat fran ais en Syrie : IV. Le Service des Antiquit s de la R publique Fran aise au Levant durant ses premi res phases : Histoire d'une r ussite arch ologique Michel Al-Maqdissi 12. The Sanctuary of Bel in Perspective: Selective Destructions, Selective Memories, Selective Realities Jen A. Baird, Zena Kamash, and Rubina Raja 13. The Hauran Needs Palmyra Maurice Sartre 14. Does Palmyra Still Have a Future? Annie Sartre-Fauriat Index
Exchange and Reuse in Roman Palmyra. Examining Economy and Circularity
, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, x + 132 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:56 b/w, 15 col., 9 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503603421.
Summary How did ancient cities like Palmyra survive? How did their people produce and manage the resources required for both their short- and long-term needs? Were their methods circular or wasteful? What materials did they reuse, and how? What form did their routine exchanges take? The material culture of Palmyra offers unique potential for addressing these questions in a concrete way. While the city is most famous for its long-distance commerce, a century of excavations at the site, together with a series of recent print publications and digital enterprises, have provided scholars with unprecedented amounts of material objects, among them inscriptions, statues, tesserae, coins, glass and metal finds, textiles, and other objects, all of which shed new light on Palmyra's economy and how its inhabitants consumed, maintained, exchanged, or reused key resources. Drawing together contributions from leading researchers on ancient Palmyra, this volume explores various dimensions of the city's economy from fresh angles. The chapters gathered here feature new methodologies for determining the size of Palmyra's population and for understanding the nature of coins in local exchanges, offer reassessments of the Palmyrene institutions that underpinned economic exchange, examine how Palmyrenes used and reused materials, and consider the forms of exchange and reuse that governed the building activity of Palmyrenes after the city's Roman heyday and within areas of Egypt. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Economy and Circularity at Roman Palmyra: Reconsidering Aspects of the Ancient Economy on the Basis of Single-Site Analysis Nathanael Andrade and Rubina Raja 2. Modelling an Urban Hinterland: The Case of Roman Palmyra Joan Campmany Jim nez, Iza Romanowska, Rubina Raja, and Eivind Heldaas Seland 3. Circuits of Exchange: Palmyrene Coins and Roman Monetary Plurality Kevin Butcher 4. Palmyrene Temples: Economic Institutions Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider 5. Circular Economy in Palmyra in the Light of Sale and Reuse of Funerary Spaces Eleonora Cussini 6. Recarving of Palmyrene Funerary Portraits Julia Steding 7. The Jewellery of the Women of Palmyra: Inheritance and Reuse Olympia Bobou 8. Textile Economy of Roman Palmyra Marta ?uchowska 9. A Matter of Size: A Dimensional Approach to the Study of Reused Inscriptions and Sculptures from the Sanctuary of Baalshamin at Palmyra Emanuele E. Intagliata 10. The Palmyrene Diaspora in Egypt: Dependency, Sustainability, and Reuse Matthew Adam Cobb Index
Revisiting the Religious Life of Palmyra
, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xiv + 212 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:135 b/w, Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503576350.
Summary The oasis city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert has long been the focus of scholarly attention, both as a major cultural locus at the heart of the ancient world, active in trade and politics, and as an important local centre of religion, attested through the archaeology and historical sources related to the site. In this volume, which is the outcome of a conference organized within the framework of the Palmyra Portrait Project, the latest research from scholars working on Palmyra is drawn together to offer new insights into both the city's religious life and its wider implications for our understanding of religious life in the Near East in general in the first three centuries CE. Incorporating analyses and discussions of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources that shed light on Palmyrene religion, the contributions gathered here reassess and discuss the beliefs and practices that were followed in the city, assess the different cults that existed, and present new insights into the development and function of the city's religious communities and spaces. Together, these chapters provide a vital update to our understanding of how people lived and worshipped in this city, which remains crucial to the broader understanding of the role of religion and religious practices in urban contexts in antiquity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Revisiting the Religious Life of Palmyra: Or Why It Still Matters to Focus on Ancient Religious Life within the Context of a Single Site - RUBINA RAJA Patterns of Worship at Palmyra: Reflections on Methods and Approaches - TED KAIZER Dieux grecs Palmyre: L'ambig it d'un concept - MAURICE SARTRE Images as Windows on the Religious Life of Palmyra - LUCINDA DIRVEN Images of Individual Devotion in Palmyrene Sources - ELEONORA CUSSINI Reconsidering the dorsalium or 'Curtain of Death' in Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture: Significance and Interpretations in Light of the Palmyra Portrait Project Corpus - RUBINA RAJA The Significance of the orans Pose in Palmyrene Art - MAURA HEYN 'Les dieux arm s' in Palmyra: Religious, Iconographic, Ethnic, and Historic Considerations - TOMMASO GNOLI Bel the Merciful - ALEKSANDRA KUBIAK-SCHNEIDER Foreigners and Outsiders:The Religious Life of Palmyra Seen from Outside - JEAN-BAPTISTE YON Portable Religion and the Palmyrene Diaspora - EIVIND HELDAAS SELAND A Palmyrene Contribution to Eastern Christianity: The Name of King Gondophares - NATHANAEL ANDRADE
Harald Ingholt, Rubina Raja (ed), Jean-Baptiste Yon (ed), Julia Steding (ed)
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Excavating Palmyra. Harald Ingholt's Excavation Diaries: A Transcript, Translation, and Commentary
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 2 vols, 1846 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 1027 col., 2 maps color, Language: English . ISBN 9782503595313.
Summary When the Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt conducted his ground-breaking excavations of Palmyra in the 1920s and 1930s, during which time he investigated several grave monuments and carried out the first observations of Palmyra's famous funerary portraits, he kept detailed diaries of his work. For a long time, these have been stored at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen together with the extensive Ingholt Archive, while further photographs and notes on Palmyrene sculpture have been kept with Ingholt's family in the United States. Now this material and Ingholt's diaries, written primarily in Danish, have for the first time been transcribed and translated into English with a full commentary written by Professor Rubina Raja, Dr Julia Steding, and Dr Jean-Baptiste Yon, in order to make these unique texts available to a wider public. The diaries contain a wealth of information on Palmyrene sculpture, grave complexes, and inscriptions from the city, as well as offering previously unpublished details into Ingholt's excavations, and his time in the field that will provide essential new insights for scholars working on Palmyra. TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I Introduction Reading the Ingholt Excavation Diaries and Acknowledgements -RUBINA RAJA 'Den smukkeste Kvindebuste, jeg endnu har set': The Palmyra Excavation Diaries of Harald Ingholt, 1924-1928 - RUBINA RAJA Figures: Life in Syria and a Trip to Palmyra Diary 1 - 1924 Figures: Monuments in Palmyra Appendix - 1924 Figures: At Work in Palmyra Diary 2 - 1925-1928 Figures: Uncovered Objects Diary 3 - 1925 Figures: The Tombs of Palmyra VOLUME II Diary 4 - 1928 Figures: To Those at Home Diary 5 - Tombs Figures: The Near East and Hama Supplementary Material Map of graves Map of graves - degrees (locations) List of All Tombs Mentioned in the Diaries of Harald Ingholt A List of Tombs from Diary 3 Concordance of Published Inscription in the Diaries Concordances of Inscriptions from the Diaries Prosopography of the Unpublished Inscriptions in the Diaries Bibliography, Diaries Selected Bibliography of Harald Ingholt Palmyra Portrait Project - List of Publications Index
