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Title: Who's Who at Palmyra
Subtitle: An Overview
Author(s): PIERSIMONI, P.
Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica
Volume: 25    Date: 1994   
Pages: 89-98
DOI: 10.2143/OLP.25.0.583463

Abstract :
The last substantial work on Palmyrene onomastics by J.K. Stark is considered by now to be the standard study on the subject. The most important studies that have preceded Stark's are: E. Ledrain, W. Goldmann and an article by A. Caquot. Ledrain's work is a pure collection of names attested up to that time while Goldmann's is out of date and gathers only a hundred names, basing itself mainly on the collections of M. de Vogüe and W. Wright. Caquot's study is the first of the kind but it is limited to a small portion of the material available. Stark's work listed a thousand names and comprised the most important collection of Palmyrene inscriptions in CIS, the Inventaires des Inscriptions de Palmyre, the material from the tesserae, D. Schlumberger's edition of inscriptions from the region to the North-West of Palmyra and new texts discovered by the Polish archaeological mission with the exception of monographs and articles published after 1971.

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