Limestone head of a woman from a funerary relief from Syria (PAL0118)
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Title
Limestone head of a woman from a funerary relief from Syria (PAL0118)
Description
The limestone head of a woman, probably originally from a funerary relief from Syria, dated to the 3rd c. CE. She wears a headdress with a thin decorated diadem. Her hair is pulled back behind the veil. She touches her right cheek with her three middle fingers of her right hand, but the rest is not preserved. The headdress and veil, almond-shaped eyes and incised eyebrows, and the overall pose and style of the sculpture is Palmyrene; however, the quality of the limestone (poor), placement of the diadem (not fully around the head), and straight hair are all unusual.
Source
Date
Rights
Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 image courtesy of Jonathan Dresner
Format
Limestone
Identifier
PAL0118
Funerary relief Item Type Metadata
Findspot
Syria?
Current Location (if known)
The Tom and Nan Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculptures, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Selected Bibliography
Citation
“Limestone head of a woman from a funerary relief from Syria (PAL0118),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed December 4, 2023, http://www.wireproject.org/items/show/716.