Portrait of a man from Palmyra

Classification

funerary statue

Culture

Palmyrene

Dimensions

height: 25.5 cm

Date

early 3rd century A.D.

Period

3rd century A.D.

Material

material analysis ; Palmyrene limestone

Iconography

male head

Production place

Palmyra

Findspot

Palmyra

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum ; Fadlallah el Hedad Mihály

Inventory

8430

Hyp-688

References

Hekler 1929, 170, no. 171; Szilágyi J. Gy. 1988a, 129, fig. 126; Kádár, in AntTan 2 (1955), 110–112; Kádár, in ActaAntHun 3 (1955), 117–120, fig. 6

Material analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the statue was made of Palmyrene limestone. Click here for the detailed results.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.