A journey to Palmyra : : collected essays to remember Delbert R. Hillers / / edited by Eleonora Cussini.
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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| Superior document: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East, v. 22 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English German |
| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 22. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 Century (Javier Teixidor); Bibliography; List of Figures and Plates; General Index; Epigraphical Index