User:PalmyranRealness/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title

Homeric shield


 * Article Evaluation
 * N/A


 * Sources
 * https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/37953 https://whc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Shields%20BrochureV3Final.pdf  https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/35278  https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1cfr88p.11  https://www.worldcat.org/title/excavations-at-dura-europos-preliminary-report-of-the-seventh-and-eighth-seasons-of-work-1933-1934-and-1934-1935-conducted-by-yale-university-and-the-french-academy-of-inscriptions-and-letters/oclc/491287768  https://mummy-portraits.netlify.app/part-two/16/#deepzoom-1603899484247258860  https://news.yale.edu/2015/11/02/ancient-roman-shield-gets-makeover-thanks-yale-team  https://www.culturalheritage.org/docs/default-source/publications/annualmeeting/2014-posters/2014am_poster14_an_investigation_of_painted.pdf?sfvrsn=1215c1f3_4

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Palace of the Dux Ripae


 * Article Evaluation
 * Fixable issues with tone ("most important building"? "the inscriptions"?) Relies upon a single source. Easily expandable, even just using information from Baird's general history-- elaborating on the role and identity of the "Dux", acknowledging the second peristyle, history of debate/theorycrafting as to function, its unique variance from the city schema, etc.


 * Sources
 * Baird.

Option 3

 * Article title

Siege of Dura-Europos


 * Article Evaluation
 * What's there is pretty good (although I would make the sourcing more clear as to which claims come from which sources); my issue is that it doesn't seem to hint much at the overall procedure of the fight-- where it took place within Dura, what "variety of siege techniques" were employed, what the "dramatic course" of the siege was. The only moment of detail is the chemical warfare, which is covered quite well. For all I know, though, there might not be much other evidence out there, and instead I would have to edit the aforementioned instances that imply more knowledge than there really is. It may also be worth it to discuss the immediate aftermath of the siege, was the population deported? And maybe also acknowledge that the dating of the siege itself is contentious. Right now it is stated matter-of-factly in the title and opening sentence.
 * I would get rid of the citation that seems to be their own class presentation. Even though the information is relevant, it seems to be new, unpublished information, and doing your own new unpublished research is against Wikipedia rules I think.
 * I would get rid of the citation that seems to be their own class presentation. Even though the information is relevant, it seems to be new, unpublished information, and doing your own new unpublished research is against Wikipedia rules I think.


 * Sources

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Statue of Hercules, Dura-Europos


 * Article Evaluation
 * This one is pretty well done, but very short. Could expand more along the lines of this tradition of lion-slaying depictions, and comparing the style of depiction in Dura to other contemporaneous depictions. Are there images of other sculptures found from this workshop to also compare against? Maybe also discuss the content of the original myth.


 * Sources

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Cohors XX Palmyrenorum


 * Article Evaluation
 * Absolutely tiny. Should include discussions of the sort of equipment that the Cohors used, what role they served in Dura (acknowledge that a lot of them most likely died in the siege), how they adapted the city and its buildings to their needs, etc. Really just needs more words, or it isn't fit to be its own article and should be a subsection of a larger page.


 * Sources