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Palmyra, Tomb no 36, 210-230 CE

The temple or house (palace)-like tomb no. 36 is situated in the center of the ‘Valley of the Tombs’. It is dated to 210-230 CE.

Palmyra tomb no 36, reconstructed entrance facade. After A. Schmidt-Colinet
Temple-tomb no. 36, facade
Photo ©Klaus Anger, Arachne
Palmyra tomb no. 36, architectural sculpture. Eros riding a dolphin. After A. Schmidt-Coline, Y. Kanjou
Palmyra tomb no. 36, architectural sculpture. Eros riding a dolphin.
Photo ©Klaus Anger, Arachne
  • Palmyra’s temple-tomb 36 and tomb architecture in the east – ANDREAS SCHMIDT-COLINET , WITH KHALED AL-AS’AD AND CARLA MÜTING-ZIMMER , and contributions by PETER CASELITZ AND URSULA HEIMBERG , DAS TEMPELGRAB NR. 36 IN PALMYRA. STUDIEN ZUR PALMYRENISCHEN GRABARCHITEKTUR UND IHRER AUSSTATTUNG (DAI, Damaszener Forschungen Band IV, Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1992).
  • Palmyra. 30 Years of Syrian-German-Austrian Archaeological Research (1981-2010). Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, Khaled Al-Assaad, Waleed Al-Assaad https://www.academia.edu/37270322/ISCARCH_Palmyra_pdf
  • Gawlikowski, Michał, Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, Das Tempelgrab Nr. 36 in Palmyra, In: Archeologia, 44 (1993), pp. 151-152 https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/3873/
  • Jean-Baptiste Yon, Notables and urbanism in Palmyra https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04424155v1
  • Schmidt-Colinet. 1985. ‘Das Tempelgrab Nr. 36 in der Westnekropole von Palmyra: Ein Vorbericht’
  • A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites, Andreas Schmidt-Colinet and Youssef Kanjou

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