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The Religious Life of Palmyra and the Place of Priesthood The Religious Life of Palmyra and the Place of Priesthood
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Priests in Palmyra Priests in Palmyra
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Conclusion: Religion and Priests in Palmyra—A Matter of Societal Structure Conclusion: Religion and Priests in Palmyra—A Matter of Societal Structure
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30 Religious Life and Priestly Representations in Palmyra
Get accessRubina Raja (DPhil 2005, University of Oxford) is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Centre Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. Dr Raja has published widely on the Mediterranean region and the East from the Hellenistic to the medieval periods, high-definition archaeology, and the intersection between archaeology and natural sciences, iconography, and portrait studies, as well as the history of religion in the Roman world. Among her monographs about Palmyrene archaeology and history are Pearl of the Desert. A History of Palmyra (OUP, 2022) and co-authored together with Olympia Bobou, Palmyrene Sarcophagi (Brepols, 2023). She has headed the Palmyra Portrait Project since 2012.
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Published:23 January 2024
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Abstract
The evidence for religious life at Palmyra is broad, ranging from sanctuaries, to altars, to religious reliefs and sculpture as well as inscriptions. However, the visual representations of Palmyrene priests, distinctly recognisable through their priestly headgear—a round hat with a flat top—constitute the largest group of evidence testifying to the local religious life in the Roman period. The representations of Palmyrene priests in the Palmyrene iconography, in particular the funerary sculpture as well as so-called banqueting tesserae, are plentiful. Close to four hundred of these exist in the corpus of funerary limestone sculpture and several hundred in the corpus of the tesserae. While these representations in many ways are repetitive in that they show male Palmyrenes dressed in priestly clothes, they also differ in the detail and unique expressions adapted by the individual to express their societal status. This chapter discusses the role of Palmyrene priests and their visual representations within the framework of our knowledge of the religious life of the oasis city.
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