Exploring the Byzantine Levels of the Destroyed Baalshamin Sanctuary through Archival Research: An Exercise in Decolonizing History

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Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI:10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.12.1.0035

Patrick M. Michel

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Abstract

The Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra was excavated by a Swiss team (1954–1956, 1966) led by the Swiss archaeologist Paul Collart. All of the field notes and other data are at the University of Lausanne. Today, these archives are the best existing source to study the temple, which was destroyed by ISIS (Islamic State in Syria) in 2015. Switzerland was not a colonial power, but, from a postcolonial perspective, it is interesting to study the dismantling process of the Byzantine structures as an assumption that the Roman-era Temple was more important. Based on a study of the historical archives, this article explores the question of whether this action can be seen as favoring a hegemonic narrative that the classical period supersedes all other periods represented by the site.

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通过档案研究探索被毁巴勒沙明圣殿的拜占庭等级：非殖民化历史的实践

巴尔米拉的巴勒沙明神庙是由瑞士考古学家保罗-科拉特率领的瑞士考古队发掘的（1954-1956 年，1966 年）。所有的现场记录和其他数据都保存在洛桑大学。如今，这些档案是研究这座神庙的现有最佳资料来源，而这座神庙已于 2015 年被 ISIS（叙利亚伊斯兰国）摧毁。瑞士不是一个殖民国家，但从后殖民的角度来看，研究拜占庭建筑的拆除过程是非常有趣的，因为它假定罗马时代的神庙更为重要。本文在对历史档案进行研究的基础上，探讨了这一行为是否可以被视为有利于一种霸权叙事的问题，即古典时期高于该遗址所代表的所有其他时期。

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Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to traditional, anthropological, social, and applied archaeologies of the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing both prehistoric and historic periods. The journal’s geographic range spans three continents and brings together, as no academic periodical has done before, the archaeologies of Greece and the Aegean, Anatolia, the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt and North Africa. As the publication will not be identified with any particular archaeological discipline, the editors invite articles from all varieties of professionals who work on the past cultures of the modern countries bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Similarly, a broad range of topics are covered, including, but by no means limited to: Excavation and survey field results; Landscape archaeology and GIS; Underwater archaeology; Archaeological sciences and archaeometry; Material culture studies; Ethnoarchaeology; Social archaeology; Conservation and heritage studies; Cultural heritage management; Sustainable tourism development; and New technologies/virtual reality.