The Oxford handbook of Palmyra
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Handbook of Palmyra Palmyra |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Raja, Rubina, 1975-
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2024.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (633 pages) |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford handbooks online.
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| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra | ISSN: 0-19-085811-7 |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
