Palmyrene Limestone Loculus Cover in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Limestone Loculus Cover
Palmyra
2nd century AD

# CBS 8902

This cover depicts a youth reclining with a vase in his left hand. Two males in smaller scale, perhaps slaves, stand by holding an amphora and a cup. Their rigidly frontal poses and stiff figural style are hallmarks of the provincial Roman style in Syria.

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.