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The Orient In Herodian (2024)
Journal Article
Hekster, O., & Kaizer, T. (in press). The Orient In Herodian. Historia,

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.

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.

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

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.

A Palmyrene altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum (2013)
Journal Article
Dirven, L., & Kaizer, T. (2013). A Palmyrene altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum. Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire, 90, 391-408

This article concerns the publication of an altar from Palmyra that it is possession of the Cincinnati Art Museum. The alter is decorated, uniquely, on all four sides, with reliefs representing Palmyrene deities: a seated goddess, an armed desert dei... Read More about A Palmyrene altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum.

An accidental tourist? Caracalla's fatal trip to the temple of the Moon at Carrhae/Harran (2012)
Journal Article
Hekster, O., & Kaizer, T. (2012). An accidental tourist? Caracalla's fatal trip to the temple of the Moon at Carrhae/Harran. Ancient society, 42, 89-107. https://doi.org/10.2143/as.42.0.2172289

The circumstances surrounding Caracalla’s death in AD 217 remain confusing. In particular the presence of the emperor near the famous temple of the Moon at Carrhae-Harran has led to much scholarly speculation. Often a preference for ‘the East’ has be... Read More about An accidental tourist? Caracalla's fatal trip to the temple of the Moon at Carrhae/Harran.

Old and new discoveries at Palmyra (2008)
Journal Article
Kaizer, T. (2008). Old and new discoveries at Palmyra. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 21, 652-664