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SKU: MS.0042
Origin: MediterraneanCirca: c. 2nd century ADDimensions: 20" Height (51cms) Medium: Limestone
Handsomely carved in high relief, showing a man wearing a mantle over a long sleeved tunic, a fold of drapery in his left hand and his right across his chest through his mantle. His head rises above the relief background, adding to the sculpted appearance, with highly defined softly waved hair, subtle creasing to the brow, thinly incised eyebrows over open eyes, a sternly held mouth and a highly stylized beard. A Palmyrene Armanaic inscription engraved to the left, reading: "Marya, son of Yarhi, the lieutenant(?). Alas!," the letters preserving traces of red pigment.
with La Reine Margot, Paris. Dr. and Mrs. Albert E. Elsen, Palo Alto, acquired from the above in 1968; thence by descent to current owner.
Greek
Palmyrene Limestone Bust of Marya, Son of Yarhi
