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The contributions of this volume stem from a conference helf at the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in December 2013. The conference "The World of Palmyra" was organised within the framework of the Palmyra Portrait Project based at Aarhus University, which is financed generously by the Carlsberg Foundation. The Palmyra Portrait Project is on the one hand a classical corpus project, which compiles all known Palmyrene funerary sculpture. The corpus until now amounts to beyond 2.800 portraits. On the other hand researchers within the project focus on various themes connected to Palmyra, its archaeology and history, in order to better contextualise the city within its contemporary world. For the sad reasons of the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, the city of Palmyra and its archaeological remains have gained in importance and the since then increasing destruction of the site and its remains have added to the importance of documenting and publishing our knowledge of the city. Through this devastating development, which the civil war is, the Palmyra Portrait Project has gained another dimension, since the corpus is the largest of its kind in the world and contains information about the funerary sculpture, which now otherwise woud have been lost forever. The conference "The World of Palmyra" brought together some of the world's most renowned scholars, who have worked on Palmyra in the last decades. The conference took place before the dimensions of the civil war became clear. Even the more the publication of this volume has gained in importance, since it presents new material from the city, new views and new insights about the important city, which Tadmor, Palmyra's ancient name, was in antiquity. The contributions span from presentations of until now unpublished material from the Ingholt Archive and Ingholt Diaries, over new material from the excavations of foreign missions to the reception of Queen Zenobia from the Renaissance until today. But apart from being a substantial contribution to the scholarship on Palmyra, the volume is also a tribute to the city, its sad fate and to its chief archaeologist, Khaled al As'ad, who gave his life for his beloved site.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Architecture, Ancient --- Sculpture, Ancient --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Architecture antique --- Sculpture antique --- Tadmur (Syria) --- Palmyre (Ville ancienne) --- Antiquities --- Religious life --- Antiquités --- Vie religieuse --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités