Mortuary Statue

Unknown artist

150-250 CE

Limestone; High Relief

Penn Museum

This is a limestone high relief carving of a woman wearing a headdress and draped clothing. She has her left hand resting on her chest and her right hand raised to her face, holding a veil. CBS Register: Fragment, slab in limestone, morturary stone. In high relief, bust of woman with Palmyrene inscription to the left of her head. Reddist color partly preserved. Romano: "Square inscribed loculus relief with bust of woman in frontal position. Right arm is bent across front of body; left arm is bent grasping edge of veil. Woman is wearing tunic and mantle pinned over left shoulder with circular brooch; the mantle falls in a broad curve below the right breast and with a loop on the bare right forearm. At the forehead she wears a diadem with a palm motif in the center, with a twisted turban and a veil over the top of the he