A PALMYRENE OVER LIFE-SIZE LIMESTONE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A PRIEST
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A PALMYRENE OVER LIFE-SIZE LIMESTONE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A PRIEST

CIRCA 150 A.D.

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A PALMYRENE OVER LIFE-SIZE LIMESTONE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A PRIEST
CIRCA 150 A.D.
Wearing tall priestly crown, the front encircled with a foliate wreath and medallion with draped portrait bust of a god wearing similar high headdress, a small child's hand holding the left end of the wreath, the face of the priest strongly carved, the eyes with incised pupils, with prominent Adam's apple, the head with remains of an attached back 'pillar', mounted
15½ in. (39.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. M. A. R. Colledge, The Art of Palmyra, London, 1976, pl. 66 for a funerary relief bust of the priest, Wahballat, in the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada and pl. 98 for the priest, Moqìmû; and M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976, p. 256, no. 398 for another similar priest's head.

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