Bibliography

General:

Raja, R., ed. 2024. The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.  Find it in Swem! 

Funerary Sculpture: 

Heyn, Maura K. 2010. “Gesture and Identity in the Funerary Art of Palmyra.” American Journal of Archaeology 114, no. 4: 631–61.

Heyn, Maura K. 2017. “Western Men, Eastern Women? Dress and Cultural Identity in Roman Palmyra.” in: Cifarelli, M. & Gawlinski, L. (eds), What Shall I Say of Clothes? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity, (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America), pp. 210-217.

Kropp, Andreas J. M., and Rubina Raja. 2014. “The Palmyra Portrait Project.” Syria 91: 393–408.

Raja, Rubina. 2017. “Networking beyond Death: Priests and Their Family Networks in Palmyra Explored through the Funerary Sculpture.” In Sinews of Empire, edited by Håkon Fiane Teigen and Eivind Heldaas Seland, 1st ed. Oxbow Books.

Ceramics:

Cerutti, A. 2014. “Preliminary Data for the Brittle Ware from the New Excavations in the South-West Quarter of Palmyra (Syria).” LCRW 4 Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean Archaeology and archaeometry. The Mediterranean: a market without frontiers 2, 643-648.

Daszkiewicz, M., M. Krogulska, and E. Bobryk. 2000. “Composition and Technology of the Roman Brittle Ware from a Kiln Site in Palmyra (Syria).” Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta, 36, 537-548.

Intagliata, E. 2014. “The White Ware from Palmyra (Syria): Preliminary data from the new excavations in the South-West quarter.” LCRW 4 Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean Archaeology and archaeometry. The Mediterranean: a market without frontiers 2, 649-656.

Majcherek, G. 2019. “Filling the Gap: Mediterranean Amphorae in Late Antique Palmyra.” Syria, 96, 395-418. 

Textiles

Eiland, Murray L. 2011. “Textile Cultures of Syria: Palmyra, Mamlukes, Beduins.” in: T. J.  Farnham and D. Shaffer (eds.) Oriental Textile and Carpet Studies VII: International Conference on Oriental Carpets, 9-18.

Finlayson, Cynthia. 2002. "The Women of Palmyra--Textile Workshops and the Influence of the Silk Trade in Roman Syria." Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 385.

Kadoi, Yuka. 2018. “Textiles.” In Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran, 15–38. Edinburgh University Press.

Jewelry 

Brøns, C. 2020. “Reconstructing Ancient Polychromy: The Beauty of Palmyra.” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 8.2:, 141-158. 

Heyn, M.K.  and R. Raja. 2021. “Attributes in Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture: Functions and Meanings.” In Individualizing the Dead: Attributes in Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture, edited by M.K. Heyn and R. Raja, 1-11.  Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 3. Turnhout: Brepols. 

Krag, S. 2017.  “Changing Identities, Changing Positions: Representations of Jewelry in Palmyrene Funerary Portraiture.” In Positions and Professions in Palmyra, edited by T. Long and  A.  Højen Sørense, 36-51. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4 vol. 9, Palmyrene studies 2. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Krag, S. 2018.  Funerary Representations of Palmyrene Women: From the First Century BC to the Third Century AD. Studies in Classical Archaeology 3. Turnhout: Brepols.

Raja, R. 2021. “Adornment and Jewellery as a Status Symbol in Priestly Representations in Roman Palmyra: The Palmyrene Priests and their Brooches.” In Individualizing the Dead: Attributes in Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture, edited by M.K. Heyn and R. Raja, 75-117.  Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 3. Turnhout: Brepols. 

Ward, C. A. 2023.  “Rethinking the ‘Spetctrum of Luxury’: Roman Jewellery from the Bay of Naples.” Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 33.N.S. 19: 305–320