Published April 7, 2021 | Version 1.0.0

Funerary data from Palmyra, Syria collated by the Palmyra Portrait Project

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Aarhus University

Description

The main dataset consists of counts and descriptions of funerary portraits, tombs and burials and their chronology at the archaeological site of Palmyra, Syria. It derives from the Palmyra Portrait Project led by Rubina Raja (Aarhus University, Denmark) between 2012-2020. The project was funded by The Carlsberg Foundation. We are thankful to the following researchers and assistant researchers for the collation of the data: J. V. Jensen, D. K. Johnson, S. Krag, N. B. Kristensen, A. H. Sørensen, and R. R. Thomsen.

It is accompanied by three additional datasets: 

Dataset_events: Romanowska, Iza 2020 “Historical events at Palmyra, Syria”, version 1.0.

Dataset_architecture: Romanowska, Iza 2020 “Major construction projects at Palmyra, Syria”, version 1.0.

Dataset_concessions: Bobou, Olympia and Palmyra Portrait Project 2020. “Tomb concessions in Palmyra, Syria”, version 1.0.

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