Portrait of a man (ruler?)
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Portrait of an old man

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
ID
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.

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