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Due note sul Bâtiment Nord del Santuario di Baalshamin a Palmira
No full textThe Bâtiment Nord of the Sanctuary of Baalshamin in Palmyra was excavated by a Swiss team led by Paul Collart in 1956. The excavation revealed the remains of a building that was in use from the 1st century AD until its demise in the early Islamic period. This contribution will examine the original documentation of the excavations in the Fonds d’Archives Paul Collart at the University of Lausanne. It will advance the possibility that the Bâtiment Nord in the Roman period might have been more extensive than what was previously thought by Collart and his team and will provide the reader with a brief overview of some of the post-Classical remains in this compound. In so doing, this contribution will present the unpublished results of a sondage conducted to the north of the modern Hotel Zenobia.Il Bâtiment Nord del Santuario di Baalshamin a Palmira fu scavato dalla missione archeologica svizzera diretta da Paul Collart nel 1956. Gli scavi rivelarono i resti di un edificio in uso dal I secolo d.C. fino al primo periodo Islamico. Questo contributo prende in esame la documentazione originale degli scavi Collart attualmente conservata presso il Fonds d’Archives Paul Collart dell’Università di Losanna. Avanzerà l’ipotesi, da confermare con opportune indagini archeologiche, che l’edificio di I secolo d.C. fosse più esteso di quanto P. Collart e la sua équipe pensassero. Inoltre, presenterà una breve rassegna di alcune tra le testimonianze archeologiche associabili alle sue fasi di occupazione più tarde. Così facendo, esaminerà i risultati inediti di un sondaggio condotto a nord del moderno Hotel Zenobia
Rome and the Tzani in Late Antiquity. An historical and archaeological review
No full textCompared to other stretches of the eastern frontier, northeastern Anatolia has rarely attracted the attention of scholars of the Roman and late antique periods. The region is known, through late antique written sources, to have housed a belligerent confederation of tribes, the Tzani, who lived off raids conducted against their neighbours. Until the fifth century AD, the Roman approach to the Tzanic problem was one of quiet co-existence, but, in the early sixth century AD, after war broke out again with Persia, necessity moved the emperor Justinian (r.AD 527-565) to intervene more actively against the Tzani. According to the sixth-century historian Procopius, the Tzani were subdued and a chain of forts was constructed in their lands to protect access to the Black Sea coast. The remains of these forts, as well as those of other sixth-century AD infrastructure allegedly built under Justinian, are still elusive. Nonetheless, evidence on the ground and in the written sources can still help investigate the nature of the Justinianic frontier defensive system
Pinpointing unrest at Palmyra in Early Islam. The evidence from coin hoards and written sources
No full textThis article collates the evidence of coin hoards from Palmyra in order to reflect on the causes behind some of the most dramatic events that befell the city in Late Antiquity and early Islam. After having stressed the importance of coin hoards as sources to reconstruct the city’s past by looking at a couple of examples dated to the fourth century AD, the article moves on to the early Islamic period. It argues that the unusual concentration of coin hoards dated to the second half of the seventh century suggests that the city underwent a period of unrest at that time and reflects on the causes that might have triggered it
The potential of archives for archaeological research on sites in conflict zones. A case study
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P. Niewöhner (ed.), The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia. From the end of late antiquity until the coming of the Turks. pp. 480, b/w and colour illustrations. 2017 Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978–0–19061–046–3 hardback £100
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The post-Roman occupation of the northern courtyard of the Sanctuary of Baalshamin in Palmyra : a reassessment of the evidence based on the documents at the Fonds d’Archives Paul Collart, Université de Lausanne
No full textThe White Ware from Palmyra (Syria) : Preliminary data from the new excavations in the South-West quarter
No full textThe excavations of the Peristyle Building carried out by the joint Italian-Syrian mission (PAL.M.A.I.S) since 2008 have yielded a significant amount of pottery from contexts dating between the 6th and the 8th centuries AD. Among them, a common ware of local production appears to be predominant. This is characterized by a sandy clay variable in colour between pale pink and white featuring a whitish slip on its external and/or internal surfaces. Due to its peculiar colour, this pottery has been conventionally named “White Ware”. A preliminary macroscopic analysis of the White Ware recovered has allowed its subdivision into several groups, each characterized by distinct features. The purpose of this paper is to present the most significant group (WW I) and propose a chronological framework of its most frequent forms on the basis of the stratigraphic record from two contexts excavated in Room B of the Peristyle Building
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