Six Palmyrene Portraits Destroyed in Manbij, Syria: A Salvage Reading

Operatives of the Islamic State reportedly destroyed six Palmyrene funerary busts and statue fragments in Manbij, Syria, on July 2, 2015. This article considers the ethical implications of publishing photographs of antiquities that have been destroyed, arguing that in such dramatic cases as destruct...

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Main Author: Hutton, Jeremy M. 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 2017
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2017, Issue: 377, Pages: 71-84
RelBib Classification:HH Archaeology
KBL Near East and North Africa
TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East
Further subjects:B funerary reliefs
B Antiquities
B Aramaic epigraphy
B PALMYRENE inscriptions
B funerary portraits
B ISLAMIC State (Organization)
B Portraits
B Photographs
B funerary busts
B Palmyra
B Looting
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