Screen LibraryPalmyra : mirage in the desert /
In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragic headline news in 2015, when it was overtaken by...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
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In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragic headline news in 2015, when it was overtaken by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which destroyed many of its monuments and artifacts. The essays in this book include new scholarship on Palmyra's origins and evolution as well as developments from both before and after its damage by ISIS, providing new information that will be relevant to current and future generations of art historians and archaeologists. The book also includes a moving tribute by Waleed Khaled al-Asa'ad to his father, Khaled al-Asa'ad, the Syrian archaeologist and head of antiquities at Palmyra, who was brutally murdered by ISIS in 2015 for defending the site. |
| Item Description: | "The essays in this volume are based on papers and lectures presented in 'Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert,' a symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 23, 2016" -- Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-159). |
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9781588396310 1588396312 |
| Index Number: | DS99 |
| CLC: | K883.76-532 |
| Call Number: | K883.76-532/P179/2016 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Joan Aruz -- A tribute to the late Khaled al-Asa'ad, martyr of Palmyra / Waleed Khaled al-Asa'ad -- The bride of the dry steppe: Palymrya and the surrounding territory / Jorgen Christian Meyer -- The first occupation of Palmyra: soundings in the sanctuary of Bel and Tell ez-Zor / Michel al-Maqdisi, Eva Ishaq -- Bel and Baalshamin: two lost temples / Michal Gawlikowski -- Thirty years of Syro-German / Austrian archaeological research at Palmyra in memory of Khaled al-Asa'ad / Andreas Schmidt-Colinet -- "Ich bin ein Palmyrener" or Je suis Tadmor": on how to be a proper citizen of the Queen of the Desert / Ted Kaizer -- Out of a Palmyrese family: notes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Palmyra Collection / Eleanora Cussini -- Palmyrene funerary portraits: collection histories and current research / Rubina Raja -- Embodied identities in the funerary portraiture of Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn -- Palmyrene sculpture in context: between hybridity and heterogeneity / Lucinda Dirven -- Zenobia in history and legend / Judith Weingarten. |