Palmyrene funerary reliefs
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title:
Palmyrene funerary reliefs
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Palmyrene funerary reliefs are almost 4,000 busts on decorative slabs closing burial niches inside underground tombs, produced in Palmyra over three centuries from the middle of the first century BC. It is the largest corpus of portrait sculpture in the Roman world outside Rome and the largest collection of funerary representations from one place in the classical world. The reliefs were carved into square pieces of limestone and depicted figures in a direct frontal pose cut off at mid-torso. Arm
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Busts first produced in ancient city in central Syria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyrene_funerary_reliefs
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2024-02-23T16:54:41Z
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