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Document Details : Title: Publications from the Palmyra Portrait Project Author(s): DIRVEN, Lucinda Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 79 Issue: 3-4 Date: 2022 Pages: 289-299 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.79.3.3291422 Abstract : This article reviews three recent publications of the so-called Palmyra Portrait Project, an ambitious project on Palmyrene funerary portraits, located at Aarhus University, Denmark. After an introduction of the project, in which its goals, preliminary results and upcoming publications are summarized, two recent publications on funerary sculpture and one publication on Palmyra in general are discussed in more detail. In passing, this review provides an overview of most recent research on Palmyra, a site that has been much discussed lately due the casualties caused by the Syrian civil war. |
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