Positions and professions in Palmyra / edited by Tracey Long and Annette Højen Sørensen
Palmyra in the Syrian Desert has in the last years come to the attention of the world due to the destructions caused by the Civil War. Right before the conflict broke out the Palmyra Portrait Project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and headed by Rubina Raja was initiated. The anthology, Positions...
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| Superior document: | Palmyrenske studier |
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| Place / Publishing House: | København : Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palmyrenske studier
bind 2 Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica 4 / Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab vol.9 |
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| Classification: | 15.17 - Klassische Archäologie |
| Physical Description: | 136 Seiten; Illustrationen; 27 cm |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Tracey Long and Annette Højen Sørensen
- The body language of Palmyra and Rome Glenys Davies
- Changing identities, changing positions: jewellery in Palmyrene female portraits Signe Krag
- The Parthian haute-couture at Palmyra Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
- The use of Parthian costume in funerary portraiture in Palmyra Tracey Long
- The pious butcher and the physicians: Palmyrene professions in context Eleonora Cussini
- Professions in Palmyra: a matter of ethnicity Tommaso Gnoli
- The iconography of caravan trade in Palmyra and the Roman Near East Eivind Helaas Seland
- To be or n ot to be depicted as a priest in Palmyra: a matter of representational spheres and societal values Rubina Raja