Rome in the East
TheArt of the Roman Empire
19.12.2019
Tetrapylon
Relief of a man, 2nd centuryAD /
Geneva, Musée d’art et d’histoire
Maura K. Heyn,“Gesture and Identity in the
FuneraryArt of Palmyra”, American Journal of
Archaeology, 114/4 (2010), pp. 631–661
Funerary Bust of Bat’â, end 2nd, early 3rd centuryAD / Museum of Grenoble
Portrait bust of a
priest, c. 150–200
/ British Museum,
London
Portrait bust of a
young man, 2nd
centuryAD / Rome,
Gregorian Egyptian,
Vatican Museums
Funerary relief, c. 2nd–3rd
centuryAD, from Palmyra,
limestone / NewYork,
Metropolitan Museum
Funerary relief ca. 125–150
AD / MET, NewYork
Funerary relief of a merchant, 2nd century
AD / Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek
Cult relief with Palmyrean triad,
limestone, first half of the 1st century
AD / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Relief showing a
procession,
marble, first
centuryAD,
Temple of Bel,
Palmyra /
Palmyra, Syria,
destroyed in
2015
Temple of Baal, frieze
with Gods sequence,
first centuryAD,
Palmyra in 2002