An innovative collection illuminating Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the East and the West, and their use of this location to recreate themselves as a central power player within a rapidly changing world.
Palmyra is one of the most famous sites of the ancient world and played a major role in the overland trade between the Mediterranean and the East. This volume explores fascinating aspects of Palmyrene archaeology and history that underline the site's dynamic relations with the Roman world, whilst simultaneously acknowledging its extremely local nature. The chapters explore Palmyra as a site, but also Palmyrene society both at home and abroad – as travellers in the then known world and contractors and businesspeople as well as innovative political and military leaders of their time. They illuminate Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the East and the West, and their use of this location to recreate themselves as a central power player – at least for a time – within a rapidly changing world.
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Illuminates Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire.
1. Palmyra in the Mediterranean World Rubina Raja;
2. The Western
Networks of Palmyra Eivind Heldaas Seland;
3. You Can't Get There from Here:
Itineraries of the Palmyrenes in the Mediterranean Jean-Baptiste Yon;
4.
Palmyrene Iconographic Traditions and the Mediterranean Connections: A Note
on Some Signet Seal Impressions on the Palmyrene Tesserae Rubina Raja;
5.
Palmyra and Emesa or 'Palmyre sans Émèse': Some Considerations on Palmyrene
Trade Networks and the Mediterranean Leonardo Gregoratti;
6. Organizing
Networks to Supply Mediterranean Markets Katia Schörle;
7. Language, Law and
Religion: The Palmyrene Tariff in Its Roman Context John F. Healey;
8.
Channels of Communication and Connections of Style; Palmyrene Portraiture in
Its Wider Context Maura K. Heyn;
9. Identity and Mobility of Palmyrene Jews
Eleonora Cussini;
10. Palmyrene Military Expatriation and Its Religious
Transfer at Roman Dura-Europos, Dacia and Numidia Nathanael Andrade.
RUBINA RAJA is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. She also directs several collective research projects focusing on the archaeology, history, and cultural heritage of Palmyra, including the Palmyra Portrait Project. Her books include Pearl of the Desert. A History of Palmyra (2022) and Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC AD 250: Aphrodisias, Athens, Ephesos, Gerasa (2012).
