The Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture

Rubina Raja

The Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture

Rubina Raja

2024, The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858117.013.27

visibility

…

description

1 page

link

1 file

Palmyrene funerary sculpture has long been acknowledged as constituting the largest group of funerary sculptural material stemming from one place in the classical world outside of Rome itself. Since the second half of the nineteenth century much of the funerary sculpture has been dispersed widely into collections and museums across the world. Only since 2012 has it begun to be studied as a corpus through the work done within the Palmyra Portrait Project. This focus on recontextualizing the funerary sculpture within its local framework in Palmyra, but also as part of a much broader cultural koine, with strong ties to both the western Roman world and the eastern Parthian world, but also beyond those realms, has given new insights into the portrait habit in the ancient world. Today the approximately four thousand surviving funerary portraits from Palmyra give us a unique opportunity to revise our views and approaches to the study of the classical world at a time when calls for diversity and equality and reframing of the Classics stand at the forefront of studies of the ancient world. Raja, R. (2024). "The Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture", in: Raja, R. (ed.) (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 417-432.

Raja EDITED BY RUBINA • A detailed analysis of the archaeology and history of Palmyra • Consolidates a wealth of research into one scholarly volume • Includes findings which have never been published before • Features dozens of halftone illustrations Contributors Nathanael Andrade, Nicole Blanc, Olympia Bobou, Eleonora Cussini, Lucinda Dirven, Peter Edwell, Eugenia Equini Schneider, Hélène Eristov, Michał Gawlikowski, Udo Hartmann, John F. Healey, Agnes Henning, Maura K. Heyn, Emanuele E. Intagliata, Karol Juchniewicz, Sławomir P. Kowalski, Nathalia Breintoft Kristensen, Robyn L. Le Blanc, Jørgen Christian Meyer, Rubina Raja, Annie Sartre-Fauriat, Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, Katia Schörle, Eivind Heldaas Seland, Andrew M. Smith II, Julia Steding, Claude Vibert-Guigue, Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino, Jean-Baptiste Yon, Gioia Zenoni RAJA The Oxford Handbook of PALMYRA The Oxford Handbook of PALMYRA The Oxford Handbook of ISBN 978-0-19-085811-7 www.oup.com PALMYRA 9 780190 858117 Cover image: The Triumphal Arch in Palmyra before destruction in 2015 © Rubina Raja 9780190858117_EST_CVRmech.indd All Pages 17-Oct-23 21:20:53

Log In

The Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture

Related papers

Related topics