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Gravestone with a Draped Young Man Holding a Bowl from Palmyra in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
Gravestone with a Draped Young Man Holding a Bowl
Limestone
Syria, Palmyra
2nd-3rd century AD
Accession # 01.25.5
Inscribed, "Maliku the son of Zabba, the son of..."
From the first century BC, the oasis city of Palmyra, in the northern Syrian desert, controlled most of the caravan trade routes from the East to the Mediterranean seacoast. Originally an independent Arabian principality, it became successively a vassal state, a free city, and a colony under under Roman control.
Lavishly decorated temples and processional streets provide evidence of the wealth of the city. The sculptures exhibited here come from impressive stone funerary monuments. Family vaults contained multiple burials in stone boxes sealed with relief images of the deceased. The figural style as well as the divine and human images and symbols reflect the mixed Greek, Syrian, and Iranian Parthian culture of the inhabitants.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
Limestone
Syria, Palmyra
2nd-3rd century AD
Accession # 01.25.5
Inscribed, "Maliku the son of Zabba, the son of..."
From the first century BC, the oasis city of Palmyra, in the northern Syrian desert, controlled most of the caravan trade routes from the East to the Mediterranean seacoast. Originally an independent Arabian principality, it became successively a vassal state, a free city, and a colony under under Roman control.
Lavishly decorated temples and processional streets provide evidence of the wealth of the city. The sculptures exhibited here come from impressive stone funerary monuments. Family vaults contained multiple burials in stone boxes sealed with relief images of the deceased. The figural style as well as the divine and human images and symbols reflect the mixed Greek, Syrian, and Iranian Parthian culture of the inhabitants.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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