PALMYRA. EXCAVATIONS 2002–2005 (INSULA E BY THE GREAT COLLONADE)
PALMYRA. EXCAVATIONS 2002–2005 (INSULA E BY THE GREAT COLLONADE)

Summary/Abstract: Insula E in the downtown district of Palmyra was the object of excavations and measuring in 2005, in an effort to complete studies of architecture uncovered in 2002 and 2003 in the area between the portico of the Great Colonnade on the south, the façade of Basilica I on the north, 'Diogenes Street' on the east and 'Oil Press Street' on the west. The 23 separate loci identified in the excavations of the 2002–2003 seasons represent different phases of occupation of the area. The present work concentrated on specific features in various parts of the quarter and the results made it possible to distinguish eight occupation phases of insula E and correlate them with the observed stages in the history of the Great Colonnade.

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