The Ingholt Archive: Making Palmyra’s Cultural Heritage Accessible

Bobou, Olympia; Miranda, Amy C.; Yon, Jean‐Baptiste

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“…These records included more than 1500 images and handwritten research notes, which served as the basis for his 1928 monograph on the stylistic and typological development of Palmyrene sculpture (Bobou et al, 2021; Ingholt, 1928). Also among his donated records were a number of bound fieldwork diaries from his campaigns in Palmyra in the 1920s (Bobou et al, 2022, forthcoming; Raja et al, 2021). Five of the six diaries related directly to his fieldwork in 1924, 1925 and 1928, although he was also present at the site at other times.…”

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“…Five of the six diaries related directly to his fieldwork in 1924, 1925 and 1928, although he was also present at the site at other times. 5 Ingholt maintained and expanded his research archive over decades, beyond his retirement from a professorship at Yale (see Bobou et al, 2022). The diaries focus mainly on descriptions of his fieldwork.…”

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Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge

Baird

Kamash

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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During the Syrian conflict, ongoing since 2011, Palmyra became notorious for the destruction and looting of its Roman-period remains, giving rise to many narratives of what Palmyra’s future should bring, often without attention to how we have come to know its past. This article explores that past through a key period—the French Mandate—when European archaeologists categorically reshaped the site, culminating in the relocation of the site’s population from mudbrick houses in and around the Temple of Bel to a new, military-built town north of the original. We examine the site immediately prior to that transformation through contemporary archaeological diaries from 1924 to 1928, written by Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt. Through his diaries, it is possible to reconstruct the complexity of knowledge production at the site, which disrupts the authorized discourses of archaeological discovery with important consequences for how we understand the contribution of local inhabitants to scientific knowledge.

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Section: Ingholt's Diariesmentioning

confidence: 99%