But the building again in Palmyra, that I think is by far the most intriguing, and makes a perfect paper topic--because one can try to decode which aspects of this are Roman and which aspects of this are local, and that's essentially the name of the game when you try-- when you go out into the Roman provinces, to try to determine what it is; in what ways has what's going on in the capital had impact on what's happening in the provinces, and what local traditions are so strong that they continue to exist, and even resurface, in some of these buildings? 