VII. Rome and the “Provinces”
The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2020
Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 AD)
offering to Hathor, Roman Mammisi,
Dendera Temple complex
Epona, second or third century CE, Luxembourg
Musée national d'art et d'histoire, Luxembourg
Epona, from Köngen, Germany, about 200 CE
Warrior of Vachères, second half of
the 1st century BCE, limestone
Musée Calvet, Avignon
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