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A Palmyran limestone funerary bust of a woman

Item Details

Description

A Palmyran limestone funerary bust of a woman
Circa AD 200-275
Carved in high relief, the woman wearing a chiton held in place by a circular brooch at her proper left shoulder, her oval face with large lidded eyes and slightly parting lips, her hair swept-up, partially covering an elaborately decorated fillet, a veil covering the top of her head and falling across her shoulders, wearing pendant earrings, two necklaces, one beaded, the other with a central pendant, and a bracelet on her right wrist, her left wrist with a spiral bangle, a nude suckling infant cradled in her proper left arm with the child's hand touching the mother's exposed left breast, two lines of Aramaic above her proper right shoulder, 53cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Private collection, Yorkshire.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 November 1980, lot 86.
Private collection, UK.
Private collection, London.

Typically shown holding objects of domesticity in funerary portraits, such as spinning whorls and distaffs, this relief instead shows a more rarely found depiction of an intimate representation of a mother and her child.

For another relief of a mother nursing an infant see the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, obj. no. GR.9.1888. See also the British Museum, London, acc.no.125150.