The Small Stuff Of The Palmyrenes

Author : Rubina Raja
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Coinage
ISBN : 2503597602

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The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes by Rubina Raja Pdf

The ancient city of Palmyra is, rightly, famous for its major monumental architecture and its vast corpus of funerary portraiture, most of which dates from the first three centuries ad. This material has long been central to art-historical, archaeological, and epigraphical studies of the region. However, up to now, relatively little attention has been paid to the 'small stuff' from Palmyra - seemingly minor items such as the enigmatic local coinage and the richly iconographic banqueting tesserae found scattered across the city's sanctuaries - which has never been comprehensively studied, but may have had huge importance for the people who lived in Roman Palmyra. This volume, which arises from the research project Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability in Antiquity headed by Prof. Rubina Raja, aims to redress the balance by giving new focus to these small finds with a view to studying them and better understanding their significance in Palmyrene social and religious life. Drawing together experts on Palmyra's archaeology, history, and language, the volume offers insights and reflections into various aspects of the city's coins and tesserae in both their local setting and their wider regional context. In doing so, the contributions gathered here open up new lines of enquiry, and at the same time underline how much we still have to learn from studying even the smallest items.

Author : Rubina Raja
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190858117

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The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra by Rubina Raja Pdf

With contributions from thirty archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, and philologists, this book covers Palmyra's archaeological remains and history from its earliest phases in the pre-Roman era to the destruction of many of its monuments during the Syrian Civil War and subsequent looting. The authors give comprehensive overviews of already published evidence, as well as significant new findings and analyses from fieldwork, and cover a broad range of themes, which not only relate to the archaeology and history of the site, but also to its relationship with the rest of the ancient world as a major trade hub during the Roman period.

Author : Lucinda Dirven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295926

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The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos by Lucinda Dirven Pdf

This volume deals with the religion of Palmyrenes in Dura-Europos during the first three centuries of the Common Era, and focuses upon the religious interaction between this migrant community and their new residence. By studying the religious interaction of distinct groups on a local level, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the process of religious development and change in Syria during the Roman period. Information on the Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos consists primarily of archaeological remains that have been found there. The Palmyrene materials from Dura-Europos have never been published collectively, and for this reason they are enumerated and re-evaluated in the appendix. The book is richly illustrated with 20 figures and 22 plates.

Author : Hamish Cameron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004388635

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Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland by Hamish Cameron Pdf

In Making Mesopotamia Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland as an inter-imperial borderland in Roman geographical writings of the first four centuries CE.

Author : Daniel C. Snell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135124960

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Ancient Near East: The Basics by Daniel C. Snell Pdf

Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent from those efforts. Topics covered include: What do we mean when we talk about the Ancient Near East? The rise and fall of powerful states and monarchs Daily life both in the cities and out in the fields The legacy of the Ancient Near East: religion, science and writing systems. Featuring a glossary, chronology and suggestions for further reading, this book has all the tools the reader needs to understand the history and study of the Ancient Near East.

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191002939

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Ancient Syria by Trevor Bryce Pdf

Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what happened many centuries before. Trevor Bryce reveals the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of it's earliest written records in the third millennium BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the 3-4th century AD. Across the centuries, from the Bronze Age to the Rome Era, we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations, enlivening, enriching, and besmirching the annals of Syrian history: Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings; Egyptian pharaohs; Amorite robber-barons; the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar; Persia's Cyrus the Great and Macedon's Alexander the Great; the rulers of the Seleucid empire; and an assortment of Rome's most distinguished and most infamous emperors. All swept across the plains of Syria at some point in her long history. All contributed, in one way or another, to Syria's special, distinctive character, as they imposed themselves upon it, fought one another within it, or pillaged their way through it. But this is not just a history of invasion and oppression. Syria had great rulers of her own, native-born Syrian luminaries, sometimes appearing as local champions who sought to liberate their lands from foreign despots, sometimes as cunning, self-seeking manipulators of squabbles between their overlords. They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of Syria's recorded history. The conclusion looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD: in many ways the opening chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria.

Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541619944

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Rome and Persia by Adrian Goldsworthy Pdf

A “magnificent” (Spectator) history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ruled over great cities and the trade routes to mysterious lands beyond. This was the region Alexander the Great had swept through, creating a dream of glory and conquest that tantalized Greeks and Romans alike. Tracing seven centuries of conflict between Rome and Persia, historian Adrian Goldsworthy shows how these two great powers evolved together. Despite their endless clashes, trade between the empires enriched them both, and a mutual respect prevented both Rome and Persia from permanently destroying the other. Epic in scope, Rome and Persia completely reshapes our understanding of one of the greatest rivalries of world history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009192651

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Latin Military Papyri of Dura-Europos (P.Dura 55–145) by Anonim Pdf

This is a full new edition of the Latin papyri from Dura Europos, which provide a wealth of material for several branches of Classical scholarship. They are a priceless source for palaeographers investigating the history of Latin writing, inasmuch as they represent a real archive containing documents produced by scribes who were presumably competent in both Latin and Greek. Historians of the Roman Empire and Roman army are offered a glance inside the everyday life of a Roman camp built within a Hellenized town of Semitic origin with a flourishing Jewish community. The papyri also provide glimpses into spoken Latin and substandard varieties, and the Latin texts survive alongside written samples of eight other languages (Greek, Palmyrenean, Hatrean, Syriac, Parthian and Pehlevi, Hebrew and Safaitic). The editions are accompanied by translations and notes, while the volume also includes a substantial introduction, appendix, and thorough commentary on the Feriale Duranum.

Author : Robert B. Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300129519

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At Empire's Edge by Robert B. Jackson Pdf

When Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 BC after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, its vast and mysterious frontier lands had an important impact on the commerce, politics and culture of the empire. This account - part history and part gazetteer -focuses on Rome's Egyptian frontier, describing the ancient fortresses, temples, settlements, quarries and aqueducts scattered throughout the region and conveying a sense of what life was like for its inhabitants. Robert Jackson has journeyed, by jeep and on foot, to virtually every known Roman site in the area, from Siwa Oasis, 45 kilometers from the modern Libyan border, to the Sudan. Drawing on both archaeological and historical information, he discusses these sites, explaining how Rome extracted exotic stone and precious metals from the mountains of the Eastern Desert, channelled the wealth of India and East Africa through the desert via ports on the Red Sea, constructed and manned fortresses in the distant oases of the Western Desert, and facilitated the expansion of agricultural communities in the desert that eventually experienced the earliest large-scale conversions to Christianity in Egypt. Illustrated with many photographs, the volume should be useful to archaeologists, classicists, and travellers to the region.

Author : Sitta Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110607642

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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies by Sitta Reden Pdf

The second volume of the Handbook describes different extractive economies in the world regions that have been outlined in the first volume. A wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools, which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. A central focus are nodes of consumption that are visible in the archaeological and textual records of royal capitals, cities, religious centers, and armies that were stationed, in some cases permanently, in imperial frontier zones. Complementary to the multipolar concentrations of consumption are the fiscal-tributary structures of the empires vis-à-vis other institutions that had the capacity to extract, mobilize, and concentrate resources and wealth. Larger volumes of state-issued coinage in various metals show the new role of coinage in taxation, local economic activities, and social practices, even where textual evidence is absent. Given the overwhelming importance of agriculture, the volume also analyses forms of agrarian development, especially around cities and in imperial frontier zones. Special consideration is given to road- and water-management systems for which there is now sufficient archaeological and documentary evidence to enable cross-disciplinary comparative research.

Author : Martin Henig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134746521

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The Art of Roman Britain by Martin Henig Pdf

With the help of over 100 illustrations, many of them little known, Martin Henig shows that the art produced in Britannia rivals that of other provinces and deserves comparison with the art of metropolitan Rome.

Author : Rubina Raja
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788763526067

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Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC-AD 250 by Rubina Raja Pdf

This study presents a comparative treatment of four East Roman provinces in the period 50 BC-AD 250 (Aphrodisias and Ephesos in Turkey, Athens in Greece, and Gerasa in Jordan), and it examines the instrumental factors behind regional and local urban developments. It argues that local communities were responsible for the organization and development of public space and buildings, which lends itself to an understanding of self-knowledge in these communities. Through a discussion of the interaction between architectural developments and historical and regional factors, this compelling study examines the interaction between the built environment, the social/political culture, and the urban identity in the eastern Roman Empire.

Author : Nicholas Michell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018536022

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Ruins of Many Lands, a Descriptive Poem by Nicholas Michell Pdf

Author : Nicholas Michell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590678854

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Ruins of many lands, a poem by Nicholas Michell Pdf

Author : Judith Lynn Sebesta,Larissa Bonfante
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299138542

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The World of Roman Costume by Judith Lynn Sebesta,Larissa Bonfante Pdf

Thirteen scholarly and well-illustrated essays survey, document and elucidate over a thousand years of Roman garments and accessories, including Etruscan influences, Near Eastern fashions and the transition towards early Christian garb.