Joan Aruz is curator emerita, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contributors to the Volume Acknowledgments Maps Introduction Joan Aruz A Tribute to the Late Khaled al-As`ad, Martyr of Human Civilization Waleed Khaled al-As’ad The Bride of the Dry Steppe: Palmyra and the Surrounding Territory Jørgen Christian Meyer The First Occupation of Palmyra: Soundings in the Sanctuary of Bêl and Tell ez-Zor Michel al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq Bel and Baalshamin: Two Lost Temples Michał Gawlikowski Looking Back on Thirty Years of Syro-German/Austrian Archaeological Research at Palmyra in Memory of Khaled al-As‘ad Andreas Schmidt-Colinet “Ich Bin Ein Palmyrener” Or “Je Suis Tadmor”: On How To Be a Proper Citizen of the Queen of the Desert Ted Kaizer Out of a Palmyrene Family. Notes on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Palmyra Collection Eleonora Cussini Palmyrene Funerary Portraits: Collection Histories and Current Research Rubina Raja Embodied Identities in the Funerary Portraiture of Palmyra Maura Heyn Palmyrene Sculpture in Context: Between Hybridity and Heterogeneity Lucinda Dirven Zenobia in History and Legend Judith Weingarten Bibliography