Palmirene

Adjective

Palmyrene (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to ancient Palmyra or Palmyrena.
   • The contrast between the deterrent lion with open mouth and luxurious mane and the peaceful antelope is striking, so more since the antelope is represented in profile while the lion, on the contrary, fully obeys the artistic law of frontality which is one of the most characteristic features of...1982, Han J. W. Drijvers, “Sanctuaries and Social Safety: The Iconography of Divine Peace in Hellenistic Syria”, in Visible Religion: Annual for Religious Iconography, Volume 1: Commemorative...
2. Relating to the Palmyrene dialect or script
   • The reverse presents to our view a ſtrange fort of inſtrument, or machine, which perhaps may be imagined to repreſent a key, beſides ſome traces of characters in a great measure defaced, and, if I am not vaſtly miſtaken, four intire Palmyrene letters.1757, John Swinton, “Diſſertation upon a Parthian coin, with Characters on the Reverſe reſembling thoſe of the Palmyrenes”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 29...

   Synonyms:

   Palmyran, Palmyrenian

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