Head of a woman from a funerary relief from Palmyra (PAL0117)
The limestone head of a woman from Palmyra, probably originally from a funerary relief. She wears a typical headdress with a decorative band featuring a central palm motif and a lattice pattern beside it, but the headdress is additionally decorated with two draped strands of jewelry. This example includes inset black pupils. The arrangement of her hair, parted in the middle and pulled back behind the head, the almond shaped eyes, and fleshy Venus-rings across her neck are typical features of Palmyrene funerary portraiture.
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Limestone
PAL0117
Funerary relief for a woman from Palmyra (PAL0116)
A limestone funerary relief of a woman with a Palmyrene inscription over the left shoulder. She wears a headdress and veil with a headband decorated in a palm motif flanked by geometric shapes, a design used frequently on the funerary reliefs of Palmyra. The band headdress covers her forehead and obscures the part in her hair, but tendrils of wavy hair spill onto the figure's shoulders beneath the veil. She wears elaborate earrings and several necklace strands (or one necklace made up of different strands). Her tunic beneath her cloak is decorated, and a band of floral decoration (perhaps another piece of jewelry) is located around her upper right arm. In her left hand she grasps the end of her cloak in a loop, while she gestures with her right hand, palm in, with the thumb, pointer, and little finger extended and the two middle fingers folded down. The incised almond shaped eyes, frontal composition, and fleshy Venus-rings across her neck are often found on these reliefs. Dated to the third century CE.
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PAL0116
Inscribed funerary relief of a woman from Palmyra (PAL0115)
A limestone funerary relief depicting a woman with a Palmyrene inscription over her left shoulder. She wears a veil and diadem decorated with floral and lattice designs found frequently on other examples, and her hair is parted in the center and wraps back around the head beneath the veil. The eyebrows, eyes, and pupils are incised, with the gaze directly slightly upward. The woman wears a tunic, ball earrings, two necklaces (one with a circular hanging pendant), and two rings on her lefthand little finger. Both arms are held against the body beneath her drapery, and her right arm crosses over her chest to rest on (or grasp) the cloak on her opposite shoulder. Her left hand extends from the cloak, whose edge is looped up and grasped between her thumb and forefinger, with the rest of her fingers likewise extended. Behind the figure is a cloth seemingly affixed to the background by a four-petaled rosette at the right corner (the left is damaged). From Palmyra, dated c.175 CE.
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PAL0115
Inscribed funerary relief for a woman from Palmyra (PAL0114)
A limestone funerary relief of a woman with a Palmyrene inscription over the figure's left shoulder. The woman, the deceased, wears a veil over a headdress with an unusually high diadem. She holds the edge of her veil in her right hand, a typical gesture in Palmyrene portraiture. Her left hand is partially wrapped in the cloak she wears over her tunic, and she holds a spindle and distaff while extending her pointer and pinky finger, and folding her middle and ring finger. Her head is turned slightly to her left, and is not straight on as in many other examples of this type from Palmyra. Dated to c. 125-150 CE.
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PAL0114
Bust of a woman, perhaps originally from a funerary stele, from Palmyra (PAL0113)
Fragmentary limestone bust of a woman, perhaps originally part of a funerary relief from Palmyra. The figure wears a headdress and veil, and her hair is parted in the middle and gathered around behind the headdress band and beneath the veil. The band is decorated with a rectangular pattern. She wears a tunic and cloak, and her left arm appears to be wrapped beneath the cloak. The figure's eyes, pupils, and eyebrows are incised, and her face full, with a soft jawline. The treatment of her hair and decorative band is similar to <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/709#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0111</a> and <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/710#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0112</a>.
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Limestone
PAL0113
Head of a woman, perhaps originally from a funerary stele, from Palmyra (PAL0112)
A limestone head of a woman from Palmyra, dated c.170-230 CE, and probably originally part of a funerary relief. She wears a headdress edged with a band decorated by a central floral motif flanked by a lattice design. Her hair is pulled up and back around the edge of the band. This arrangement of hair also appears on <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/709#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1105%2C-1%2C3964%2C2484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0111</a> and <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/711#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-197%2C-1%2C766%2C480" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0113</a>, while the decoration of the band is similar to <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/709#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1105%2C-1%2C3964%2C2484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0111</a>. Despite damage to the left side of the face, the figure's incised eyebrows and almond shaped eyes are well-preserved, as well as a soft jaw and Venus rings around the neck.
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PAL0112
Funerary relief of Abuna, daughter of Nabuna from Palmyra (PAL0111)
Limestone funerary relief of Abuna, identified in the Palmyrene inscription over her left shoulder as the daughter of Nabuna, son of Anini. She wears a veil and headdress with a decorated band, featuring a central floral motif and a lattice pattern (see also <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/710#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1269%2C0%2C4788%2C2999" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0112</a>). With her left hand, she grasps the edge of the veil, a gesture frequently encountered on these reliefs. Her hair is up and back behind the veil (as in <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/710#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1269%2C0%2C4788%2C2999" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0112</a>, <a href="http://wireproject.org/items/show/711#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-197%2C-1%2C766%2C480" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PAL0113</a>). The woman wears a tunic and cloak fastened with a large circular brooch at her left shoulder, as well as earrings, a pendant necklace, and two rings on her left pinky. Her right arm is wrapped in her tunic and cloak, the edge of which she holds between her thumb and forefinger, with her middle-finger likewise extended, and her ring and pinky finger folded. Traces of red paint appear in the inscription over the figure's left shoulder. From Palmyra, dated c.170-230 CE.
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PAL0111