A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers.DS99 2005-046960 90-04-12418-7 A journey to Palmyra Palmyra, ancient city, Syria Palmyra (pălmī`rə), ancient city of central Syria. A small modern village known as Tudmur is on the site. ; collected essays to remember Delbert R. Hillers. Title main entry. Ed. by Eleonora Cussini. (Culture and history of the ancient Near East; v.22) Brill Academic Publishers, [c]2005 258 p. $179.00 The 13 essays are not a tribute to Hillers, who devoted his final 15 years studying the people and culture in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, but a research tool such as he would have wanted to produce himself. They explore various aspects of archaeological research, history and social history, art, and philology phi·lol·o·gy n. 1. Literary study or classical scholarship. 2. See historical linguistics. [Middle English philologie, from Latin philologia, love of learning to illustrate the complex and multifaceted culture of the city and its surround. Among the topics are Greek and Latin words in Palmyrene inscriptions, the role of women, the city of the dead, lexicographical lex·i·cog·ra·phy n. The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary. [lexico(n) + -graphy. and grammatical notes on the Aramaic texts, burial practices as revealed by funerary goods, questions about the iconography and epigraphy epigraphy: see inscription. of a new tessera, and Palmyra in the third century on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of its destruction by the Romans. |
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