The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project

Selected Essays on the Southwest Quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in Memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi

Emanuele Ettore Intagliata (ed)

Pages: approx. 254 p.
Size:216 x 280 mm
Illustrations:191 b/w, 59 col., 10 tables b/w.

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2025

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This volume collects contributions dedicated to the results of the PAL.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian joint project at Palmyra directed by Maria Teresa Grassi and Waleed al-As‘ad.

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BIO

Emanuele E. Intagliata is Assistant Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy), where he teaches Christian and Medieval Archaeology. Dr Intagliata’s research focuses on late antique frontier communities in the Roman East, particularly in central Syria, northeast Anatolia, and west Georgia. He has authored numerous contributions on the history and archaeology of late antique and early Islamic Palmyra based in particular on archival research.

Summary

The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian joint project at Palmyra, established in 2007, aimed to shed light on private housing in the Roman East. Through excavations in Palmyra’s southwest quarter, the remains of a residential complex, the ‘Peristyle Building’, were uncovered; this site was built in the Roman period but was inhabited up to the eighth century ad.

This volume, dedicated to Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi (Università degli Studi di Milano), who co-directed the project together with Dr Waleed al-As‘ad (Museum of Palmyra), presents selected studies stemming from the Pal.M.A.I.S. project. It draws together contributions dedicated to the topography of the southwest quarter, the excavation of the Peristyle Building, and selected classes of material. Through detailed analysis and the presentation of fresh data, this volume sheds new light on a relatively unexplored sector of a threatened UNESCO World Heritage site.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Maria Teresa Grassi and Her Work
Emanuele E. Intagliata and Fabrizio Slavazzi

1. Setting the Scene: The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project and the Purpose of this Book
Emanuele E. Intagliata

2. The Southwest Quarter: An Overview of the Evidence and Preliminary Observations Based on the Results of the 2007 Survey
Emanuele E. Intagliata, Daniele Bursich, and Giorgio Rossi

3. The Peristyle Building
Alberto Bacchetta and Emanuele E. Intagliata

4. Exploring the Invisible: Circulation in the Peristyle Building
Daniele Bursich

5. The Architectural Elements of Palmyra: New Data from the Southwest Quarter
Giorgio Rossi

6. Numismatic Finds from the Southwest Quarter of Palmyra: A Preliminary Report
Antonino Crisà

7. Glass Finds from the Peristyle Building
Miriam Romagnolo