Revisiting the religious life of Palmyra /
"The oasis city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert has long been the focus of scholarly attention, both as a major cultural locus at the heart of the ancient world, active in trade and politics, and as an important local centre of religion, attested through the archaeology and historical sources r...
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French
English
Published:
Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2019].
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Contextualizing the sacred ;
9.
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Call Number: BL1640 .R48 2019
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Revisiting the religious life of Palmyra in Copenhagen: acknowledgements
- Revisiting the religious life of Palmyra: or why it still matters to focus on ancient religious life within the context of a single site /
- Rubina Raja
- Patterns of worship at Palmyra: reflections on methods and approaches /
- Ted Kaizer
- Dieux grecs à Palmyre: l'ambigüité d'un concept /
- Maurice Sartre
- Images as windows on the religious life of Palmyra /
- Lucinda Dirven
- Images of individual devotion in Palmyrene sources /
- Eleonora Cussini
- Reconsidering the dorsalium or 'curtain of death' in Palmyrene funerary sculpture: significance and interpretations in light of the Palmyra portrait project corpus /
- Rubina Raja
- Catalogue
- The significance of the orans pose in Palmyrene art /
- Maura K. Heyn
- 'Les dieux armés' in Palmyra: religious, iconographic, ethnic, and historic considerations /
- Tommaso Gnoli
- Bel the Merciful /
- Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
- Foreigners and outsiders: the religious life of Palmyra seen from outside /
- Jean-Baptiste Yon
- Portable religion and the Palmyrene diaspora /
- Eivind Heldaas Seland
- A Palmyrene contribution to eastern Christianity: the name of King Gondophares /
- Nathanael Andrade
- Index.