Palmyrene

The contrast between the deterrent lion with open mouth and luxurious mane and the peaceful antelope is striking, so more since the antelope is represented in profile while the lion, on the contrary, fully obeys the artistic law of frontality which is one of the most characteristic features of Palmyrene art.² Only early examples of Palmyrene sculpture from the first century B.C. and the beginning of the first century A.D. still show representations of human beings in profile.

From Rome came the legend of the twins Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, illustrated on a battered relief found in the Palmyrene temple of Bel;

This cave housed an extended Palmyrene family, as indicated by the script used in some of the inscriptions and by some of the names of the interned.

The reverse presents to our view a ſtrange fort of inſtrument, or machine, which perhaps may be imagined to repreſent a key, beſides ſome traces of characters in a great measure defaced, and, if I am not vaſtly miſtaken, four intire Palmyrene letters.

The names of the deities retain their Palmyrene form in both the Palmyrene and Greek versions.

An isolated ostracon has turned up in Germany,² but otherwise there is nothing comparable to the geographic spread of the Nabataean and, above all, the Palmyrene inscriptions, the latter spanning from South Shields (in northern England) to Soqotra.

The importance of the Palmyrenes was as merchants, and it is as merchants that they become known to us in our earliest Roman reference.

For in the course of the campaign the Roman provincial capital of Bostra fell to the Palmyrenes – whether by accident or design - along with a Roman force.

There is no surviving contemporary account of the war between the Palmyrenes and the Emperor Aurelian.

The first panel is a bilingual text in Greek and Palmyrene, the second entirely in Palmyrene, and the third and fourth entirely in Greek.

In one such inscription, Odaenathus is referred to in Palmyrene simply as Ras Tadmor without any indicators of Roman rank.

The auxiliaries also occasionally left behind bilingual dedications in Palmyrene with Greek or Latin.

..., scituated between Palmyrene and Cœlosiria, in that Country or Province known to the Romans, ...

... the capital of Acabene, a province or district of Mesopotamia, a region separated from Palmyrene by the Euphrates.

This is proved by two inscriptions from Palmyrene, ...