Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of Palmyra /
"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...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2024] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 612 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190858117 0190858117 |
| Index Number: | DS99 |
| CLC: |
K883.76-62 K376.03-62 |
| Call Number: | K376.03-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
Palmyra-Tadmor in the Syrian desert an introduction to the handbook of Palmyra / Climate and environment of Palmyra and the Syrian desert / The Palmyrene hinterland and sedentarization / Glimpses of tadmūr before alexander the pre-hellenistic evidence / Hellenistic Palmyra a fata morgana? / Palmyra the development of an ancient city / Palmyrene identity and community continuity and change / Palmyra and its 'dark ages' (-) an archaeological and historical reassessment / Palmyra in late antique and medieval times / Palmyra and the third-century crisis / Queen Zenobia the rise and fall of her Palmyra / Palmyra and the military from the Roman period to the Islamic conquest / A bilingual world? : language and epigraphy in Palmyra / The Palmyrene tax tariff / Aramaic legal language from Palmyrene monumental inscriptions / The Palmyrene diaspora / Palmyrene trading networks / Palmyrenes in Rome / Palmyra and the Parthians / Palmyra and Dura-Europos contact, impact, and differences / Urban layout and public space the monuments of Palmyra in the Roman and late antique periods / Domestic architecture in Palmyra / Religious architecture in Palmyra the temples and sanctuaries / Built for eternity the funerary monuments of Palmyra / The fortifications and military architecture of Palmyra / Public sculptures from Palmyra / the Palmyrene funerary sculpture / Palmyrene women breaking the glass ceiling or window dressing? / Representations of men in Palmyra / Religious life and priestly representations in Palmyra / Children in Palmyra / The production economy of funerary portraiture / The banqueting tesserae from Palmyra tokens for religious events / Palmyrene coinage / Wall paintings and stucco work in Palmyrene funerary hypogea / A note on quarries and textiles in Palmyra / Postludium Palmyra and the civil war in Syria / |