Review of The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material ...

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material, transcribed with commentary and bibliography.

The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material, transcribed with commentary and bibliography Olympia Bobou, Amy C. Miranda, Rubina Raja, Jean-Baptiste Yon, The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material, transcribed with commentary and bibliography. Archive archaeology, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. 4 vols. Pp. 1954. ISBN 9782503598222

Review by
Rory McInnes-Gibbons, Durham University. rory.j.mcinnes-gibbons@durham.ac.uk

This four-volume publication in Brepols’ Archive Archaeology series marks the culmination of over a decade of research into the Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt’s (1896–1985) materials on Palmyrene sculpture donated to Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1983. ...

The book is open access. There is a link in the review. Lots of the sculptures are inscribed, mostly in Aramaic. Also note:

Indeed, one area where this catalogue can have a significant impact is on the global art market and the illicit trade in such antiquities. If one of these portrait busts appears on the market, the provenance can be interrogated or improved by consultation with the authors’ work and Ingholt’s original research. ...

For more on the Ingholt archive, see here.

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