| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) |
| Contents |
Introduction (Jørgen Christian Meyer, Eivind Heldaas Seland, Nils Anfinset); Palmyra, Pastoral Nomads, and City-State Kings in the Old Babylonian Period: Interaction in the Semi-Arid Syrian Landscape (Kristina J. Hesse); The Venice of the Sands: Palmyrene Trade Revisited (Michael Sommer); Trade Across Frontiers: Foreign Relations of a Caravan City (Michał Gawlikowski); Palmyra and the Chinese Silk Trade (Marta Żuchowska); The Palmyrene Temple in Rome and Palmyra's Trade with the West (Taco T. Terpstra); The Road from Palmyra to Damascus in the Tabula Peutingeriana (Paola Mior); The Stage of Palmyra: Colonnaded Streets, Spaces for Communication and Activities in the Eastern Roman Empire (Claudia Bührig); Geophysical Prospection by Ground- and Space-based Methods of the Ancient Town of Palmyra (Syria) (Roland Linck); The Palmyrene Gods in the Works of M. I. Rostovtzeff and C. Hopkins (Pavel Alipov); A Roman Residential House in the 'Hellenistic' Town of Palmyra: Archaeology, Function and Urban Aspects -- Vessel Glass (Christine Ertel and René Ployer); Seleucid, Roman, and Mesopotamian Influence in Palmyrene Pottery and the Question of a Palmyrene Identity (Christiane Römer-Strehl); Excavation of No.129-b House Tomb at the North Necropolis in Palmyra (Kiyohide Saito); The Vessels in Palmyrene Banquet Scenes: Tomb BWLH and BWRP and Tomb TYBL (Saeko Miyashita); On the Human Skeletal Remains Excavated from the Underground Tombs in Palmyrab (Takahiro Nakahashi); Inorganic Impurities in Teeth of the Ancient Inhabitants of Palmyra (K. Yoshimura, Shiqin Wu, T. Nakahashi and S. Saito); Agriculture in Byzantine Palmyrena (Knut Krzywinski and Jonatan Krzywinski) |
| Summary |
The contributions to this volume address the archaeology and history of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Bringing together papers presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012 as a part of the a Syrian-Norwegian research project, it reflects international research and fieldwork that was going on until the outbreak of the Syrian civil war |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2016 |
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Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 8, 2016) |
| Subject |
Middle & Near Eastern archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Antiquities
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Tadmur (Syria) -- History -- Congresses
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Tadmur (Syria) -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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Syria -- Tadmur
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meyer, Jørgen Christian, editor
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Seland, Eivind Heldaas, editor
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Anfinset, Nils, editor
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Archaeopress, publisher.
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| ISBN |
1784912808 |
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9781784912802 |
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