@inbook{0f832148f8cd485bac5e888fd8f005a7,
title = "Glimpses of Tadmūr before Alexander: the pre-Hellenistic evidence",
abstract = "This contribution draws together the archaeological and textual evidence for ancient Tadmūr (the later Palmyra) in the pre-Hellenistic period. The textual material is mainly in Akkadian of the second millennium BC (Old Assyrian trade archives, the Mari letters, Emar, and later Assyrian texts of Tiglath-Pileser I). All of these materials, and the small amount of archaeological evidence, suggest that Tadmūr was a minor though well-known waypoint on a major route between Mesopotamia and western Syria in the second millennium BC. In the first millennium BC it fell into obscurity, to emerge again in the Hellenistic age. Discussion is included of the confused Old Testament and later Jewish traditions about Tadmūr, which connect it with Solomon.",
keywords = "Palmyra, Tadmūr, Syria, cuneiform sources, Kani{\v s}, Mari, Emar, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles",
author = "John Healey",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190858117.013.3",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780190858117",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "49--62",
editor = "Rubina Raja",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra",
address = "United Kingdom",
}