Termin:
28.09.2005
16:00
Edessa and Palmyra between Rome and Iran
Tommaso Gnoli,Universität Bologna/Ravenna
The political entities of Edessa and Palmyra, in Northern Mesopotamia (Osrhoenae) and in the Syrian steppe respectively, are commonly understood as cultural bridges between East and West.
Eastern- and more specifically Iranian influence on both is limited and reduced in Roman times. The Iranian presence is proved through onomastics and fashion, of course, but it is neither on institutional nor political fields. The analysis of two terms ( pasgribã, occurring in some documents and inscriptions from the Edessean territory; and argapetes, which occurs on a number of inscriptions from Palmyra all referred to the same person, Septimius Vorõd) indicates that the Iranian influence was wider than is accepted by a part of the modern historical research, thus the idea of ´Palmyre, cité grecque´ is not condivisable anymore.
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