Stele of Baalshamin - Zeus Kyrios
Dura-Europos, aka Dura, Syria
c. 31 CE
Source: The Pantheon of Palmyra by Javier Teixidor, 1979
#Baalshamin #Baalsamay #Palmyra #Syria #Zeus #paganism #ArabianPaganism #Arabs #history #culture #religion

The next University of #Missouri Extension crop and #forage chat is set for Friday morning outside #Palmyra. Extension experts, along with MU's Integrated Pest Management and the Missouri #Soybean Merchandising Council, will host several discussions over two hours on the latest product trials and management techniques.

https://www.centralmoinfo.com/palmyra-farm-to-host-crop-and-forage-chat-friday-morning/

- #Putin’s #Russia deliberately targets #food and #civilians in its barbaric #war on #ukraine. How is it different than the destruction of the Bamiyan #Buddha by the #Taliban or #Palmyra by ISIS? 
“Today #Russia ruined the #UNESCO protected Transfiguration #Cathedral, one of the biggest and oldest in #Odesa. Its #history says — nothing is over.
built in 1795-1808. 
Soviets destroyed it in 1932. 
#Ukraine restored the architectural gem in 1999-2005.

youtu.be/o0l64Z9nZQI

- #Putin’s #Russia deliberately targets #food and #civilians in its barbaric #war on #ukraine. How is it different than the destruction of the Bamiyan #Buddha by the #Taliban or #Palmyra by ISIS? 
“Today #Russia ruined the #UNESCO protected Transfiguration #Cathedral, one of the biggest and oldest in #Odesa. Its #history says — nothing is over.
built in 1795-1808. 
Soviets destroyed it in 1932. 
#Ukraine restored the architectural gem in 1999-2005.
https://youtu.be/o0l64Z9nZQI

- #Putin’s #Russia deliberately targets #food and #civilians in its barbaric #war on #ukraine. How is it different than the destruction of the Bamiyan #Buddha by the #Taliban or #Palmyra by ISIS?

“Today #Russia ruined the #UNESCO protected Transfiguration #Cathedral, one of the biggest and oldest in #Odesa. Its #history says — nothing is over.

built in 1795-1808.
Soviets destroyed it in 1932.
#Ukraine restored the architectural gem in 1999-2005.

https://youtu.be/o0l64Z9nZQI

Recently got a hard drive that was in my parents' home 8000 miles away. Photos that I thought were boring at the time (in 2009) are now so nostalgic, given the circumstances:

A photo of Palmyra, the famous Roman ruins in Homs, Syria, in 2009 before ISIS blew it up.

#Travel #Photography #Syria #Homs #Palmyra #Architecture

(Canon 50D)

#Archaeology #Syria #Palmyra

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-lags-syria-famed-roman-palmyra.html

"You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

https://youtu.be/FwgWuFGWVCM

#ArchibaldMacLeish #terminator #Palmyra

Here's another Google flashback. This is in Palmyra
#Photograpy #Syria #Palmyra

The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues edited by M. Nagaoka (Unesco-Springer, 2020). An interesting #OpenAccess book that deals with the possible future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues, but also with other cases of destruction: Palmyra, Timbuktu, synagogues in Europe and 9/11 Ground Zero. #Heritage #War #CulturalHeritage #Terrorism #Destruction #Bamiyan #BuddhaStatues #Palmyra #GroundZero

@academicchatter
@Denying_History
@histodons

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-51316-0

The temple of Allat was destroyed thrice: it was sacked once in 272 by the Roman troops of the emperor Aurelian and again, definitely, by a Christian mob at the end of the fourth century, and by ISIL in the 21st century. After it was first sacked by the Romans the cult image had to be replaced by a statue that was a copy of a statue of Athena

#art #history #archaeology #pagan #paganism #ArabianPaganism #palmyra #Syria #allat #goddess #athena #arabs #Arabia #religion #temple #sunday #Andeel

Katsoin dokkarin #Palmyra sta (poistuu tänään Areenasta). Keskiössä haudattuja ihmisiä esittävät patsaat kaupungin kulta-ajalta.

#Dokumentti päättyy siihen, kun #ISIS räjäyttää kaupungin rauniot. Vieläkin valui sydän tästä verta.

Kannatan syvästi sitä, että historialliset taideaarteet palautetaan alkuperäisiin paikkoihinsa, mutta tällä kertaa oli hyvä, ettei näitä patsaita oltu #Syyria an palautettu. Edes ne säilyivät.

https://arenan.yle.fi/1-50654860

#historia #taide #maailmanperintökohde

Oh come on, stop this nonsense already #FFS !!!
Tell me: how is this any different from #ISIS destroying the temples of #Palmyra?
This ain't 'woke' this is just cultural vandalism... What's next? Tearing down #StPeters Basilica cause it's a symbol of patriarchy?

Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive | Roald Dahl | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive

This the 3 wheeled taxi I got around in at Palmyra. I gave the driver a postcard of the Sydney Opera House as a gift. He put it up above his dashboard. This was 20 yrs ago so it may not be in his taxi now.
#photo #syria #palmyra

Palmyra landscape. I went around this area in a small 3 wheel taxi.

#photo #syria #palmyra #LandscapePhotography

Palmyra, Syria, 2000. I climbed up and into this tomb & looked thru the window.

#photo #syria #palmyra

Palmyra, Syria - a camel rider. Taken in 2000 before those fvcktard imbecile ISIS horrors bombed the shit out of Palmyra.

#photo #syria #palmyra

📍 The ancient ruins of Palmyra 🏛️ reimagined in stunning pixel art, a reminder of the enduring power of history. 🎮

#MastoArt #DesertRuins #pixelart #aseprite #palmyra #16bitart #desert #ruins #pixelartist #pixels #pixelartwork #digitalart #retroart

While travelling through Palmyra, Syria a local suggested I get on his camel & he will take a picture of me.

Well, this is it. I call it "Stavros of Palmyra".

Before you ask - no I didn't ride the camel. I just posed on it.

From a collection of photos on my blog
https://dodona777.com/photos-from-my-greece-middle-east-journey/

#Photo #Photography #Palmyra #Syria

Funerary relief of Hadirat Katthina, daughter of Sha'ad ~ 200–220 CE

The funerary portrait of Hadirat Katthina is an example of high relief from Palmyra. She shows a sense of dignity from her gaze to her formal pose with her arms crossing her body and concealed for the most part beneath her garment.

The inscription is in Palmyrene Aramaic: “hdrt kṭtyn’ bt š‘d ḥbl.” "Hadirat Katthina (?) daughter of Sha‘ad, alas!". Translation by Professor Jean-Baptiste Yon, University of Lyon.

Getty Museum, no. 2019.12

#AncientHistory #ReliefWednesday #Palmyra @antiquidons @histodons