• Map of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire ca. 200 C.E. (DIR); a downloadable (PDF) map of the Eastern Mediterranean (IAM)
• 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
• Rodney Baird's longer article on Palmyra's geography and history with images (Ancient Routes)
• Explore the archaeological discoveries found at Palmyra (Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites)

Images

• Portrait busts from Palmyra (Images from History)
• Funerary relief of Syrian woman, 2nd century CE (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
• Images from Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity)

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)
• Christopher Jones' Notes on the Years of Crisis in the Mid-Third Century (not currently available)
• Review of Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992 (BMCR)
• Zenobia: Resources for Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World
• ROMARCH's list of resources for Roman archaeology in the Easternmost part of the Roman empire