• Map of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire ca. 200 C.E. (DIR)
• Read about Palmyra's revolt and Zenobia's rule over the eastern part of the Roman empire in Jacqueline Long's biography of Vaballathus and Zenobia, from DIR's On-line Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
• Palmyra's history with images (Sacred Destinations); 19th century engravings and photographs of Palmyra (Mideastimage.com)
• Explore the archaeological discoveries found at Palmyra (Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites)

Images

• Funerary reliefs from Palmyra (Wikimedia Commons)
• Gravestone with funerary banquet, excavated at Palmyra (Met)
• Gravestone showing funerary banquet (British Museum)
• Palmyran Funerary reliefs, 2nd century CE, an article from Expedition ( UPenn Museum)
• Tomb Relief of Brother and Sister, ca. 150 CE (Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum)
• Syrian woman, 160-75 CE (Hermitage Museum)
• Three reliefs from Palmyra (Perseus): Grave relief of a woman, Grave relief of a bearded man, and Three men at a board game
• Sculpture from Palmyra and Dura Europos in the Louvre (Washington U)
• Images from Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity)
• Uses and Meaning of Palmyran Sculpture, part of a larger site that includes discussions of characteristics, iconography, and comparison of Palmyran sculpture with Roman sculpture (USC)

Texts

• Vopiscus' account of Aurelian's conquest of Palmyra in 273 CE (a bit later than the date of the portrait of the Syrian woman)

Related Materials

• Excerpts from David Kennedy and Derrick Riley. Rome's Desert Frontier. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990 (once there, from the Menu bar, click on Edit, then Find in Page and you will find the sections that discuss Palmyra)
• Review of Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992 (BMCR)