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Catalogue : the Palmyra collection : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Title: Catalogue : the Palmyra collection : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek / Rubina Raja ; editor, Eva Mortensen & Anne Marie Nielsen.
Publication: [Copenhagen] : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2019.

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Description

511 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plan, portraits; 22 cm.

Summary

Ancient Palmyra, a famous oasis city in the Syrian Desert, flourished in the first three centuries AD. In this period, the city was embellished with monumental architectural complexes and works of art. When Palmyra was rediscovered by European travellers in the seventh century, Palmyrene art entered collections across Europe. In the 1880s, the founder of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Carl Jacobsen, acquired more than 100 funerary portraits from Palmyra. Later additions to the collection were made by Johannes Elith Østrup during his travels (1890s) and Harald Ingholt during his fieldwork (1920s-1930s).00Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek possesses the largest collection of Palmyrene funerary art outside of Syria. The significant collection gives insight into the development of Palmyrene art as well as the values within Palmyrene society, reflecting both local traditions and knowledge about the world in which Palmyra was embedded ? between large empires. Along with the funerary sculptures, the museum?s Palmyra collection include the so-called banqueting tesserae, inscriptions, altars, and glass, faience, and stucco objects. The collection is presented in its entirety in this catalogue.

Series Statement

Catalogues of the collection in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Ny Carlsberg glyptotek. Katalog. English.

Alternative Title

Palmyra collection : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Subject

Ny Carlsberg glyptotek > Catalogs
Ny Carlsberg glyptotek
Architecture, Ancient > Syria > Tadmur > Catalogs
Art, Ancient > Syria > Tadmur > Catalogs
Antiquities
Architecture, Ancient
Art, Ancient
Tadmur (Syria) > Antiquities > Catalogs
Syria > Tadmur

Genre/Form

Catalogs.
Informational works.
Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQD 20-257

ISBN

9788774523642 (paperback)
8774523643 (paperback)

OCLC

1135587017

Title

Catalogue : the Palmyra collection : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek / Rubina Raja ; editor, Eva Mortensen & Anne Marie Nielsen.

Publisher

[Copenhagen] : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Catalogues of the collection in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Ny Carlsberg glyptotek. Katalog. English.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Mortensen, Eva, editor.

Nielsen, Anne Marie, 1949- editor.

Raja, Rubina, 1975- author.

Ny Carlsberg glyptotek, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQD 20-257

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