Outputs (46)

The Orient In Herodian (2025)
Journal Article
Hekster, O., & Kaizer, T. (2025). The Orient In Herodian. Historia, 74(2), 230-254. https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2025-0010

This paper investigates appearances of the Orient in Herodian. Firstly, through the way in which the East, the Orient, and the opposition between West and East, appears and reappears as a literary theme throughout Herodian’s History and as such trigg... Read More about The Orient In Herodian.

The first known inscription from Hatra in Greek and Hatran Aramaic: new insights into sociolinguistics and religion at the city of the Sun (2024)
Journal Article
Bucci, I., De Hoz, M.-P., Kaizer, T., & Moriggi, M. (in press). The first known inscription from Hatra in Greek and Hatran Aramaic: new insights into sociolinguistics and religion at the city of the Sun. IRAQ,

Empire, community, and culture on the Middle Euphrates: Durenes, Palmyrenes, villagers, and soldiers (2017)
Journal Article
Kaizer, T. (2017). Empire, community, and culture on the Middle Euphrates: Durenes, Palmyrenes, villagers, and soldiers. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 60.1, 63-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-5370.12048

The focus of this paper is on the Middle Euphrates: Dura-Europos as its best-known urban settlement; a series of villages known mostly from two papyrological dossiers situated along the river; and the military stations on the Euphrates. The paper ask... Read More about Empire, community, and culture on the Middle Euphrates: Durenes, Palmyrenes, villagers, and soldiers.

Tadmor-Palmyra, a unique civilization between East and West (2016)
Other
Kaizer, T. (2016). Tadmor-Palmyra, a unique civilization between East and West

Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos (2016)
Book
Kaizer, T. (Ed.). (2016). Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316403488.002

The small fortress town of Dura-Europos is known, since the great Russian scholar Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff, as the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian desert’. Situated on the Middle Euphrates river, it was founded as a Macedonian colony by one of the successors to Al... Read More about Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos.

The future of Palmyrene studies (2016)
Journal Article
Kaizer, T. (2016). The future of Palmyrene studies. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 29, 924-931

Divine constellations at Palmyra. Reconsidering the Palmyrene ‘pantheon’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Kaizer, T. (2016). Divine constellations at Palmyra. Reconsidering the Palmyrene ‘pantheon’. In A. Kropp, & R. Raja (Eds.), The world of Palmyra (17-30). Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab

Revisiting the “temple of Bêl” at Dura-Europos: a note on the fragmentary fresco from the naos (2016)
Book Chapter
Kaizer, T. (2016). Revisiting the “temple of Bêl” at Dura-Europos: a note on the fragmentary fresco from the naos. In M. Heyn, & A. Steinsapir (Eds.), Icon, cult, and context : sacred spaces and objects in the classical world : essays in honor of Susan B. Downey (35-46). UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Lucian on the temple at Heliopolis (2016)
Journal Article
Kaizer, T. (2016). Lucian on the temple at Heliopolis. Classical Quarterly, 66(1), 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838816000094

his paper focusses on two lines in what counts as our best available literary source for the study of religious life in the Roman Near East. In paragraph 5 of Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ (On the Syrian Goddess), a treatise professing to describe the temple... Read More about Lucian on the temple at Heliopolis.

Dura-Europos under Roman rule (2015)
Book Chapter
Kaizer, T. (2015). Dura-Europos under Roman rule. In J. Cortés Copete, E. Muñiz Grijalvo, & F. Lozano Gómez (Eds.), Ruling the Greek world : approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (91-101). Franz Steiner Verlag