This exquisite piece of the Palmyran Funerary Plaque of a Woman with her Mother comes from the first half of the 2nd century A.D.
This well preserved slab includes the bust of an adult woman who is richly clothed and accompanied by a second woman with a bare torso. Their faces, as is typical with Palmyran sculptures, don’t display personal character and suggest a vaguely young age. The woman on the right of the plaque, clearly the deceased, is the matron. This was the woman’s role within the house. She is ornately dressed and adorned in jewels.
The figure on the left is clearly a family member accompanying the deceased. This was very common on Palmyran funerary plaques.
As Phoenix Ancient Art explains, “Stylistically, this plaque can be attributed to the final phases of the first group of Palmyran sculpture and dates to the first half of the 2nd century A.D.; the type of earrings, the schematic folds of the fabric, the shape of the eyes (two concentric circles for the iris and the pupil) confirm this dating.”
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