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Urbanization --- City planning --- Regionalism --- Urbanisation --- Urbanisme --- Régionalisme --- Aphrodisias (Extinct city) --- Ephesus (Extinct city). --- Athens (Greece) --- Gerasa (Extinct city). --- Aphrodisias de Carie (Ville ancienne) --- Ephèse (Ville ancienne) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Gerasa (Ville ancienne) --- History. --- Histoire --- Roman provinces --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Provinces of Rome --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Provinces --- Social conditions --- Government policy --- Management

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This edited volume consists of 15 contributions by leading scholars of religious identity and religion in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. The study of religion and religious identities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East has been a focus within archaeology and ancient history for centuries. Yet the transition between the Hellenistic and Roman period remains difficult to grasp from the archaeological and epigraphic evidence. This volume brings together contributions by leading scholars working on religious identity and religion in the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Roman Near East. For this volume they have been asked to address a variety of questions concerning religion, religious development, and religious identities from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. These research questions have resulted in a suite of contributions which draw upon a wide range of empirical evidence, from epigraphical material to literary and archaeological sources. In the ancient Near East we cannot speak of a common religion, nor of a common literary tradition, but when seen through the lens of contextualization, the material and textual evidence brings forward new narratives about the great variations in worship, myths, and identities, as well as the different religious systems of the region and of the people inhabiting it. The contributions offer concretized ideas about and research on various aspects of religion within a framework of very different settings, of local, regional, or imperial character. This volume is a must for any scholar or student of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Roman Near East, and the contributions provide new insights into the ways in which we may approach this region, offering complex but plentiful material to be studied

Identification (Religion) --- Sacred space --- Religious architecture --- Art and religion --- History --- Middle East --- Mediterranean Region --- Religion --- Art and religion. --- Identification (Religion). --- Religion. --- Religious architecture. --- Sacred space. --- History. --- To 622. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Middle East. --- Lieux sacrés --- Architecture religieuse --- Art et religion --- Histoire --- Moyen-Orient --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Lieux sacrés --- Méditerranée, Région de la

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The ancient city of Palmyra is, rightly, famous for its major monumental architecture and its vast corpus of funerary portraiture, most of which dates from the first three centuries AD. This material has long been central to art-historical, archaeological, and epigraphical studies of the region. However, up to now, relatively little attention has been paid to the ‘small stuff’ from Palmyra — seemingly minor items such as the enigmatic local coinage and the richly iconographic banqueting tesserae found scattered across the city’s sanctuaries — which has never been comprehensively studied, but may have had huge importance for the people who lived in Roman Palmyra. This volume, which arises from the research project Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability in Antiquity headed by Prof. Rubina Raja, aims to redress the balance by giving new focus to these small finds with a view to studying them and better understanding their significance in Palmyrene social and religious life. Drawing together experts on Palmyra’s archaeology, history, and language, the volume offers insights and reflections into various aspects of the city’s coins and tesserae in both their local setting and their wider regional context. In doing so, the contributions gathered here open up new lines of enquiry, and at the same time underline how much we still have to learn from studying even the smallest items.

Coinage --- Tesserae --- Monnaie --- Monnaies antiques --- Mosaïque antique --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Frappe --- Tadmur (Syrie ; région) --- Tadmur (Syria) --- Antiquités. --- Antiquities. --- Coins, Ancient --- Tudmur (Syria) --- Tadmor (Syria) --- Tedmor (Syria) --- Palmyra (Syria) --- Palmyre (Syria) --- Palmyra --- Tokens --- Legal tender --- Mints --- Money --- Silver question

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While the funerary portraiture of Palmyra is rightly world-renowned, up to now, the corpus of sarcophagi from the ancient city has received relatively little attention as a cohesive group in their own right. Comprising sarcophagi, banqueting reliefs and founder reliefs, as well as sarcophagus reliefs, most of these objects share a common iconographic motif, that of the banquet, although other scenes, mostly drawn from the daily life of the city?s caravan leaders and their families, also appear. The emphasis on the banqueting scene in particular reveals the crucial importance of dining in ancient Palmyrene society: for the living, banquets were a marker of social standing and gave hosts a chance to honour the gods and offer an ephemeral benefaction to their fellow citizens, while for the dead, the banquet motif offered the opportunity for the entire family to be depicted together and showcase their wealth and sophistication, as well as their connections outside the city.00This single corpus of material gathered through the Palmyra Portrait Project, is presented in this beautifully illustrated two-volume monograph. Through careful analysis of the portraits, and the costumes and attribute choices that appear in these images, the authors explore how the sarcophagi were used by Palmyrenes to project an image of local pride, while at the same time participating in the visual cultures of the Roman and Parthian Empires between which their city was situated

Sarcophagi --- Relief (Sculpture), Ancient --- Portrait sculpture, Ancient --- Sculpture, Ancient

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