A Journey to Palmyra : Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers.

A Journey to Palmyra : Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers.

A Journey to Palmyra originates from the desire to remember Delbert R. Hillers, who greatly contributed with his work to Palmyrene studies. However, it is not meant just as a memorial volume, but as a research tool. It contains thirteen papers by scholars in the field of Palmyrene studies and Semiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cussini, Eleonora
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2005.
Series:Culture and History of the Ancient near East Ser. ; vol. 22.
Subjects:
Inscriptions > Syria > Tadmur.
Antiquities
Civilization
Inscriptions
Tadmur (Syria) > Civilization.
Tadmur (Syria) > Antiquities.
Syria > Tadmur
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Table of Contents:
  • The Sacred Banquets at Palmyra and the Functions of the Tesserae: Reflections on the Tokens Found in the Arsu Temple (Khaled al-As'ad, 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 (Baruch A. Levine)The Safaitic Inscriptions at Dura Europos (Michael C.A. Macdonald); Zwei palmyrenische Relieffragmente (Christa Müller-Kessler); Zu palmyrenischen 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-As'ad); Palmyra in the Third Centu.

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