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  - A caravan city
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  - From the Temple of Bel to Zenobia
  - Palmyrene society
  - The gods of Palmyra
- - Urbanism and architecture
  - Public and monumental edifices
  - Temple of Bel
  - Temple of Baalshamin
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  - The necropolis
- - The arts in Palmyra
  - Sculpture
  - Mural painting
  - Tesserae
  - Clothes and body decorations
- - The rediscovery of Palmyra
  - Rediscovery in the 17^th century
  - Deciphering Palmyrene
  - Cassas and the legacy of Palmyra
  - Archaeological missions
  - The Collart collection
- Queen Zenobia
- Wife of Odaenathus
- The conflict with Aurelian
- Zenobia’s legacy
- Palmyra at the Louvre Museum
- Bust of Yarhai
- Bust of Ummayat
- Relief of Maliku
- Triad of Baalshamin
- Incense altar
- Rectangular tessera
- Robert Amy in Palmyra (1930-1945)
- Architecture and archaeology
- Surveying the Temple of Bel
- Robert Amy in the Near East
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Palmyra

The oasis of Palmyra is a point of convergence of several trade routes in northwestern Syria. Mentionned in textual sources as early as the 2nd millennium B.C., the city knew its apogee in the Greco-Roman period, particularly under the reign of Queen Zenobia.

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The origins of Palmyra
Greco-Roman Palmyra
Urbanism and architecture
The arts in Palmyra
The rediscovery of Palmyra

Queen Zenobia

Wife of Odaenathus
The conflict with Aurelian
Zenobia’s legacy

Palmyra at the Louvre Museum

Bust of Yarhai
Bust of Ummayat
Relief of Maliku
Triad of Baalshamin
Altar
Rectangular tessera

Robert Amy in Palmyra (1930-1945)

Architecture and archaeology
Surveying the Temple of Bel
Robert Amy in the Near East

Resources

Media library
Site plan

The collection

About us
Actors in archaeology
Contact
Content uploading platform
Legal notice
Credits

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