Palmyrene

• Palmyrenean

Palmyrene (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to ancient Palmyra.
   • 1982, Han J. W. Drijvers, Sanctuaries and Social Safety: The Iconography of Divine Peace in Hellenistic Syria, in Visible Religion: Annual for Religious Iconography, Volume 1: Commemorative Figures, E. J. Brill, page 65,

     The contrast between the deterrent lion with open mouth and luxurious mane and the peaceful antelope is striking, so more since the antelope is represented in profile while the lion, on the contrary, fully obeys the artistic law of frontality which is one of the most characteristic features of Palmyrene art.² Only early examples of Palmyrene sculpture from the first century B.C. and the beginning of the first century A.D. still show representations of human beings in profile.

   • 1986, Malcolm A. R. Colledge, The Parthian Period, Iconography of Religions, Section XIV: Iran, Fascicle 3, E. J. Brill, page 26,

     From Rome came the legend of the twins Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, illustrated on a battered relief found in the Palmyrene temple of Bel;

   • 2002, Tal Ilan, Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity, Part IV: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE, Mohr Siebeck, page 33,

     This cave housed an extended Palmyrene family, as indicated by the script used in some of the inscriptions and by some of the names of the interned.

Palmyrene (plural Palmyrenes)

1. (historical) An inhabitant of ancient Palmyra.
   • 1995, Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, University of Michigan Press, page 31,

     The importance of the Palmyrenes was as merchants, and it is as merchants that they become known to us in our earliest Roman reference.

   • 2000, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 80,

     For in the course of the campaign the Roman provincial capital of Bostra fell to the Palmyrenes – whether by accident or design - along with a Roman force.

   • 2008, Pat Southern, Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen, Continuum Books, page 131,

     There is no surviving contemporary account of the war between the Palmyrenes and the Emperor Aurelian.

Palmyrene

1. A Western Aramaic dialect spoken in the city of Palmyra in the early centuries CE.
   • 1757, John Swinton, Diſſertation upon a Parthian coin, with Characters on the Reverſe reſembling thoſe of the Palmyrenes, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 29, page 593,

     The reverse presents to our view a ſtrange fort of inſtrument, or machine, which perhaps may be imagined to repreſent a key, beſides ſome traces of characters in a great measure defaced, and, if I am not vaſtly miſtaken, four intire Palmyrene letters.

   • 2003, James Noel Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin Language, Cambridge University Press, page 270,

     The names of the deities retain their Palmyrene form in both the Palmyrene and Greek versions.

   • 2009, Sebastian Brock, Chapter 11: Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syria, Hannah M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, Jonathan J. Price, David J. Wasserstein (editors), From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East, Cambridge University Press, page 289,

     An isolated ostracon has turned up in Germany,² but otherwise there is nothing comparable to the geographic spread of the Nabataean and, above all, the Palmyrene inscriptions, the latter spanning from South Shields (in northern England) to Soqotra.

2. (historical) An ancient country of Western Asia, on the eastern boundary of present-day Syria, whose capital was Palmyra.[1]