An enigmatic mythological scene is painted on the east wall of the pronaos of the temple of Bel in Dura-Europos.1 The mural is not well known, and Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff sug[...]

The funerary art from Palmyra, a city in the eastern Roman empire, offers us a glimpse into the creation of social identity in the aftermath of Roman conquest. The Palmyr[...]

Three Palmyrene funerary busts are part of the collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum. This article discusses the epitaphs, the portraits, and their stylistic features[...]

Palmyra, ancient Tadmor, was in the first three centuries CE a flourishing trade node in theRoman Empire. Situated as the last stop on the Silk Road, camel caravans were [...]

This article challenges the prevailing opinion that the inhabitants of Gallia Transalpina were largely unaffected by Roman hegemony in the late second and early first cen[...]

The abundance of female funerary portraits from Palmyra makes them a tempting source for assessing the roles of women in ancient Palmyrene society. These bust-length port[...]

As the sun set on James Henry Breasted's single day of field work at Dura-Europos in 1920 he and his team stood in front of the north wall of the pronaos of the Temple of[...]