The Rules of the House (of Gods): Administrative and Ritual Norms of the Palmyrene Temples

The epigraphic record from Palmyra brings light on the organization of temples: personnel, management feasts, economy and ritual practices towards certain deities like Allat Shai ‘al-Qaum. These texts were previously called in research literature “sacred laws”and what scholarly debate nowadays labels with term “ritual norms.”The aim this paper, divided temple behavior, is to understand through scraps information administration Palmyrene temples processes which shaped life places worship.