SALOME, S.

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Palmyrene Inscriptions, Taken from Wood's Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec. First edition, uncommon, of this scholarly study of early religious inscriptions from Palmyra. "Syria, like Egypt, was a land of fervent religiosity whose exuberant manifestations scandalized or fascinated the rest of the empire" (Veyne, p. 69).Salome sourced the inscriptions from The Ruins of Palmyra (1753) and Baalbek (1757), the reports of discoveries made by the antiquarians Robert Wood, John Bouverie, and James Dawkins during two expeditions to the Levant.We have located 11 copies in institutions: British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Ireland, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, and Yeshiva.

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