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.