Palmyra : mirage in the desert / edited by Joan Aruz.
Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert (Symposium) (2016 : New York, N.Y.); Aruz, Joan, editor.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
2017
N5460 .P356 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Palmyra : mirage in the desert / edited by Joan Aruz.
Meeting Name
Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert (Symposium) (2016 : New York, N.Y.)
ISBN
9781588396310 (paperback)
1588396312 (paperback)
Published
New York, NY : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
Language
English
Description
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm.
Call Number
N5460 .P356 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
939.4/32
Summary
In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragic headline news in 2015, when it was overtaken by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which destroyed many of its monuments and artifacts. The essays in this book include new scholarship on Palmyra's origins and evolution as well as developments from both before and after its damage by ISIS, providing new information that will be relevant to current and future generations of art historians and archaeologists. The book also includes a moving tribute by Waleed Khaled al-Asa'ad to his father, Khaled al-Asa'ad, the Syrian archaeologist and head of antiquities at Palmyra, who was brutally murdered by ISIS in 2015 for defending the site.
Note
"The essays in this volume are based on papers and lectures presented in 'Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert,' a symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 23, 2016" -- Title page verso.
In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragic headline news in 2015, when it was overtaken by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which destroyed many of its monuments and artifacts. The essays in this book include new scholarship on Palmyra's origins and evolution as well as developments from both before and after its damage by ISIS, providing new information that will be relevant to current and future generations of art historians and archaeologists. The book also includes a moving tribute by Waleed Khaled al-Asa'ad to his father, Khaled al-Asa'ad, the Syrian archaeologist and head of antiquities at Palmyra, who was brutally murdered by ISIS in 2015 for defending the site.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-159)..
Added Author
Aruz, Joan, editor.
Added Corporate Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia.
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Introduction / Joan Aruz
A tribute to the late Khaled al-Asa'ad, martyr of Palmyra / Waleed Khaled al-Asa'ad
The bride of the dry steppe: Palymrya and the surrounding territory / Jorgen Christian Meyer
The first occupation of Palmyra: soundings in the sanctuary of Bel and Tell ez-Zor / Michel al-Maqdisi, Eva Ishaq
Bel and Baalshamin: two lost temples / Michal Gawlikowski
Thirty years of Syro-German / Austrian archaeological research at Palmyra in memory of Khaled al-Asa'ad / Andreas Schmidt-Colinet
"Ich bin ein Palmyrener" or Je suis Tadmor": on how to be a proper citizen of the Queen of the Desert / Ted Kaizer
Out of a Palmyrese family: notes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Palmyra Collection / Eleanora Cussini
Palmyrene funerary portraits: collection histories and current research / Rubina Raja
Embodied identities in the funerary portraiture of Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn
Palmyrene sculpture in context: between hybridity and heterogeneity / Lucinda Dirven
Zenobia in history and legend / Judith Weingarten.

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