Excavating Palmyra: Harald Ingholt's Excavation Diaries: A Transcript, Translation, and Commentary (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History, 4) - Hardcover

Raja, Rubina; Yon, Jean-Baptiste; Steding, Julia; Harald Ingholt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503595316 ISBN 13: 9782503595313

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

When the Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt conducted his ground-breaking excavations of Palmyra in the 1920s and 1930s, during which time he investigated several grave monuments and carried out the first observations of Palmyra's famous funerary portraits, he kept detailed diaries of his work. For a long time, these have been stored at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen together with the extensive Ingholt Archive, while further photographs and notes on Palmyrene sculpture have been kept with Ingholt's family in the United States. Now this material and Ingholt's diaries, written primarily in Danish, have for the first time been transcribed and translated into English with a full commentary written by Professor Rubina Raja, Dr Julia Steding, and Dr Jean-Baptiste Yon, in order to make these unique texts available to a wider public. The diaries contain a wealth of information on Palmyrene sculpture, grave complexes, and inscriptions from the city, as well as offering previously unpublished details into Ingholt's excavations, and his time in the field that will provide essential new insights for scholars working on Palmyra.

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About the Author

Rubina Raja is professor of Classical Archaeology and directs three projects on Palmyra : The Palmyra Portrait Project ; Archive Archaeology : Preserving and Sharing Palmyra's Cultural Heritage through Harald Ingholt's Digital Archive ; and Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability in Antiquity. She specialises in the archaeology of the Mediterranean and the Levant and has published widely on Palmyra and the region in general. Julia Steding is a research assistant in the Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability project directed by Professor Rubina Raja. Her doctoral thesis focused on sculptural production in Palmyra and she has published on that topic in recent years. Jean-Baptiste Yon is researcher at the CNRS, IFPO in Beirut, Lebanon and a world-leading expert on Palmyrene Aramaic and Palmyrene culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503595316
• ISBN 13: 9782503595313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1844