LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Aramaic

Funerary slab with male bust in high relief ca. 200 – 250 A.D. Roman Hard white local limestone h. 48.5 cm., w. 41.4 cm., d. 21.3 cm. (19 1/8 x 16 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.) Place excavated: Syria / / Palymra Gift of Mrs. W. Lester Glenney and her sister, Mrs. Field Object Number: y1946-109 Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/ In Roman times, Palmyra was a wealthy oasis on the trade route between Syria and Babylonia. Palmyrene tombs were in the form of towers or underground crypts with rows of slots (loculi) for multiple burials, each sealed by a slab with a portrait bust in high relief. The portraits were not true likenesses but rather acted as material abodes for the souls of the deceased. This loculus slab is typical, depicting the upper body of a man whose name is written in Aramaic script: "Yedi'bel, son of Mezzabana (son of) Baroqa. Alas!" Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.

Funerary slab with male bust in high relief ca. 200 – 250 A.D. Roman Hard white local limestone h. 48.5 cm., w. 41.4 cm., d. 21.3 cm. (19 1/8 x 16 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.) Place excavated: Syria / / Palymra Gift of Mrs. W. Lester Glenney and her sister, Mrs. Field Object Number: y1946-109 Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/ In Roman times, Palmyra was a wealthy oasis on the trade route between Syria and Babylonia. Palmyrene tombs were in the form of towers or underground crypts with rows of slots (loculi) for multiple burials, each sealed by a slab with a portrait bust in high relief. The portraits were not true likenesses but rather acted as material abodes for the souls of the deceased. This loculus slab is typical, depicting the upper body of a man whose name is written in Aramaic script: "Yedi'bel, son of Mezzabana (son of) Baroqa. Alas!" Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.