Palmyra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Adam Prins, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, David Michelson, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Thomas Carlson, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Dec 17, 2019 02:43 PM
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History
An ancient oasis and trading city with monumental remains, located in modern Syria. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668331
34.5521005265, 38.265706528
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- Colonia Hadr. Ant. P. (Georgian, 140 BC - AD 640)
- Ἁδριανοπόλις (Hadrianopolis: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 850)
- I Illyricorum garrison (Latin, AD 284 - AD 640)
- I Illyrorum garrison (Georgian, 140 BC - AD 640)
- Πάλμυρα (Palmyra: Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 850)
- Palmyra (Latin, 30 BC - Present)
- Palmyra (Ancient Greek, 1450 BC - AD 2000)
- Παλμυρηνός (Palmyrenos: Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 850)
- Tadmar (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Tadmir (Hittite, 1450 BC - 1200 BC)
- תַּדְמֹר (Tadmor: Ancient Hebrew, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- تدمر (Tadmur: Arabic, modern)
- Tadmur (Akkadian, 1600 BC - AD 2000)
- Tadmur (Modern Standard Arabic, 1600 BC - AD 2000)
- Tadmuru (Akkadian, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- Θαδάμορα (Thadamora: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Palmyra connection Strata Diocletiana (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Al-Lat at Palmyra at Palmyra (330 BC - AD 640)
- Theatre of Palmyra at Palmyra (unspecified date range)
- Camp of Diocletian at Palmyra at Palmyra (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Nabu at Palmyra at Palmyra (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Ba'al at Palmyra at Palmyra (unspecified date range)
- Agora of Palmyra at Palmyra (unspecified date range)
urban area, oasis, settlement, station (road or coastal)
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Andrade 2013
- BAtlas 68 F4 Palmyra/Thadamora/Hadrianopolis
- Bounni, A. 1989. “Palmyre et les Palmyréniens,” in J.-M. Dentzer and W. Orthmann (eds.), Archéologie et histoire de la Syrie 2, pp. 251-66, Saarbrücken.
- Bryce 2014
- Edwell 2008
- Gawlikowski 2010
- Ingholt 1936
- Kropp 2016
- Meyer et al. 2016
- Michałowski et al. 1960-1984
- New Pauly, Palmyra
- PECS (Perseus), PALMYRA (Tadmor) Syria
- Pollard 2000
- Sculptures of Palmyra
- Ships of the Desert and Ships of the Sea
- Smith 1854 (Perseus), PALMYRA
- Smith 2013
- Starcky 1985 33-36
- Stark 1971
- The ruins of Palmyra 1753
- ToposText Palmyra (Syria)
- UNESCO World Heritage List, Site of Palmyra
- Veyne 2017
- Wiegand 1932
- Wikidata Q5747
- Wikipedia (English) Palmyra
- Will 1992 30-46
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 68 F4 Palmyra/Thadamora/Hadrianopolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tudmur
Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 under criteria i, ii, and iv of UNESCO's World Heritage List Operational Guidelines.
Specific archaeological components include:
- Art and architecture which in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD combined cultural influences from Graeco-Roman,local, and Persian traditions
- A 1100 meter-long grand colonnaded street
- Temple of Ba'al, Camp of Diocletian, an ancient Agora, and theatre
- Various other temples and urban quarters
- Unique examples of funerary sculpture which combine Graeco-Roman art with indigenous elements and Persian influence
- Remains of a Roman aqueduct and immense necropoleis
J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Adam Prins, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, David Michelson, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Thomas Carlson, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Palmyra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668331> [accessed: 06 July 2020]
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