Funerary Monument Probably from Palmyra in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Funerary monument

Date: A.D. 232

Geography: Syria, probably from Palmyra

Medium: Limestone

Dimensions: 20.47 x 8.27 in. (51.99 x 21.01 cm)

Classification: Stone-Architectural, Inscribed

Credit Line: Purchase, 1895

Accession Number: 95.28

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Funerary Monument
Limestone
Syria, Palmyra
AD 232

Accession Number: 95.28

Inscribed: “Blessed be his name forever, the good, the compassionate! Made and devotes [this monument] Haggagu, the son of Yehiba, the son of Yarhai, the ---, for his life, and the life of his father and his brother. In the month Qinyan of the year 543 (July AD 232).”

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label