A journey to Palmyra : collected essays to remember Delbert R. Hillers / edited by Eleonora Cussini.

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TextSeries: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 22.Publication details: Boston : Brill, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 258 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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9004124187
9789004124189
9781429426329
1429426322
9781433705489
1433705486

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Journey to Palmyra.; Online version:: Journey to Palmyra.DDC classification:

939/.43 22

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DS99.P17 J68 2005eb

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Contents:

The sacred banquets at Palmyra and the functions of the tesserae : reflections on the tokens found in the Arṣu Temple / Khaled al-Asʼad, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Jean-Baptiste Yon -- Greek and Latin words in Palmyrene inscriptions : a comparison with Syriac / Sebastian P. Brock -- Beyond the spindle : investigating the role of Palmyrene women / Eleonora Cussini -- The city of the dead / Michal Gawlikowski -- Variation in the Palmyrene honorific inscriptions / Agustinus Gianto -- Three new Palmyrene inscriptions / Andrew D. Gross -- Lexicographical and grammatical notes on the Palmyrene Aramaic texts / Barch A. Levine -- The Safaitic inscriptions at Dura Europos / Michael C.A. Macdonald -- Zwei palmyrensichen Inschriften auf Reliefs / Klaus Parlasca -- Palmyrene burial practices from funerary goods / Kiyohide Saito -- A new tessera from Palmyra : questions of iconography and epigraphy / Andreas Schmidt-Colinet and Khaled al-Asʼad -- Palmyra in the third century / Javier Teixidor.

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Summary: "This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion on several issues pertaining to the field of Palmyrene studies, and illustrates methodologies to be employed in order to increase our knowledge of aspect of the complex and multifaceted culture of ancient Palmyra and of neighbouring areas."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.

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"This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion on several issues pertaining to the field of Palmyrene studies, and illustrates methodologies to be employed in order to increase our knowledge of aspect of the complex and multifaceted culture of ancient Palmyra and of neighbouring areas."--Jacket

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