Palmyra / Bust of Palmyrene woman / Limestone
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1980.01.0001
- Object Name
- Bust of Palmyrene woman
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Funerary Sculpture
- Materials
- Limestone
- Weight
- too heavy for lab scales
- Pierced
- 161
- Inscribed
- 161
- Full Artifact Description
- Root: White limestone, originally painted.
- Subjects
- Woman
- Verbatim Date
- c. 215 - 230 AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Syria
- Verbatim Site
- Palmyra
- Production Site
- 140
- Countermark
- 161
- Exhibition Title
- Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy
- Case 04 - Jewelry
- Exhibition Curator
- Talalay, Lauren
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- Publication Author
- Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type Category
- 30
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 1651 x 1078
- File Size
- 209 KB
- Record
- 1980.01.0001
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1980.01.0001/1980_01_0001p13.tif
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"Palmyra; Bust of Palmyrene woman; Limestone." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1980.01.0001/1980_01_0001p13.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 07, 2024.