Abstract
Starting in the 1920s and into the 1970s, the Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt (1896–1985) created a vast collection of sculpture, architecture, and epigraphy from Palmyra, Syria (first to third centuries AD). His paper archive contains 2,347 so-called archive sheets, which include photographs, transcriptions of inscriptions, stylistic observations and dating, provenance and collection information, and bibliography. In 2012 the archive was digitized by Professor Rubina Raja and the <em>Palmyra Portrait Project</em>. An in print, commented edition of the archive is underway, but this publication serves to make the archive sheets openly available as a research resource and a starting point for future research on Palmyrene art and epigraphy, the history of excavations in the Middle East, twentieth century collecting practices, and cultural heritage preservation in Syria.
Highlights
CONTEXT Palmyra, ancient Tadmor, in modern Syria, was an important city of the Roman Empire with a flourishing sculptural practice in the first to third centuries AD
The sculptural habit in Palmyra was the subject of inquiry for the Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt, who collected hundreds of images of Palmyrene sculpture over the course of the twentieth century. (Figure 1) Ingholt initiated his research for his higher doctoral dissertation, Studier over Palmyrensk Skulptur, around 1922 thereby marking a starting point for his extensive archive [6, 7]
The project members have been researching all of the 2,347 archive sheets, reviewing their inscriptions, bibliography, and other annotations
Summary
Harald Ingholt’s archive has been housed at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1983. After further research into the archive sheets, it became apparent that the archive’s structure at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek likely differed from Ingholt’s. This hypothesis is based on each sheet’s PS number. (Figure 5) Research on the sheets and Ingholt’s 1928 study suggested that the number in the upper right corner was that assigned by Ingholt whereas the number centred at the top of the sheet was an addition – a renumbering – made by Ploug [6, 7]. DATA TYPE The data set is primary data in the form of high-resolution scans of Ingholt’s archive sheets available as .pdf files. FORMAT NAMES AND VERSIONS PDF – twenty-one sets divided into four categories
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