New Epigraphic Inscriptions from the Italian-Syrian Archaeological Mission of Palmyra

Authors

  • Maria Teresa Grassi University of Milan
  • Danila Piacentini University of Rome
  • Giovanna Rocca Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/6738

Keywords:

Syria, Palmyra, Italian-Syrian Mission, inscriptions, Greek, Aramaic

Abstract

The paper focuses on the Greek and Semitic inscriptions found during the excavation of the Peristyle Building in the south-west quarter of Palmyra, which was carried out by the Italian-Syrian archaeological joint mission Pal.M.A.I.S. between 2008 and 2010. The inscriptions, incised or painted on stone and pottery, add new interesting data on the historical development of the building, dated between the late 2nd - 3rd and the 8th centuries AD.

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Author Biographies

Maria Teresa Grassi, University of Milan

Maria Teresa Grassi is Professor in Archaeology of Roman Provinces for the Università degli Studi of Milano (Italy) and Deputy Director of the Department of Antiquity Sciences of the same University.Since 1980 she has been taking part in the research, study and educational activities of the Section of Archaeology. In particular, she took part in the excavations of the Roman settlements of Angera (VA) and Calvatone (CR), in northern Italy. Since 2005 she is the Director of the excavations in Calvatone.Her principal interests concern the Romanization of Cisalpine and the relations between the Celts and the Romans; the material culture of Roman age (in particular, pottery); numismatics; Roman Provinces, particularly Northern Africa and Middle East. She is also concerned with activities of high scientific popularization.In 2007 she organized the agreement between the Università degli Studi of Milano and the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums of Damascus to start an italian-syrian Archaeological Mission in Palmyra (excavations in the south-west quarter of the site). She is the italian Director of the joint Mission.

Danila Piacentini, University of Rome

Danila Piacentini is an independent researcher in Semitic Epigraphy. Professor in Near Eastern Semitic Languages: 2007-2010 Biblical Hebrew, 2010-2011 Semitic Epigraphy at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. Member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the sanctuary of Tas-SilÞ (Malta, since 2000) as Semitic epigrapher. Near Eastern Museum of University “La Sapienza” of Rome (Mediterranean section, 2001-2011) Member of the Italo-Syrian Archaeological Mission Pal.M.A.I.S. in Palmyra (Tadmor, Syro-Arabic Republic, since 2009) as Semitic epigrapher.

Giovanna Rocca, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM

Giovanna Rocca is full professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Faculty of Interpreting, Translation, Linguistic and Cultural Studies. She is in charge of the course of Principles of Linguistics at the first cycle degree course of Interpreting and Communication, and of Theatrical Spaces in the Ancient World at the first cycle degree course of Arts, Tourism and Markets. She is director of the Institute of human, linguistic and environmental sciences, scientific director of the Research Project ILA Iscrizioni latine arcaiche: A Digital Corpus of the Latin Archaic Inscriptions, and member of the advisory board for the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology project of the University of Florida. Her scientific activity is devoted to the study of some Indoeuropean Languages, such as Armenian, Latin, Italic Languages and Greek. Lately, she focused on a new group of unpublished epigraphic documents from Sicily (defixiones), owned by a private collector, with particular attention to the epigraphic, archeological and antiquarian aspects, in that these are the indispensable keys to face the complex issues of the linguistic history of the Magna Graecia area with a unitary heuristic perspective.

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Published

2016-01-22

Issue

No. 20 (2015)

Section

ARTICLES