Funerary relief of a woman with a child.
‘Alas | Amataḥâ | daughter of Zebîdâ | the Greek’ (PAT 0907).
Dated to 200-235 (EC) (200-273, RR)
Strasbourg Museum (formerly Schlumberger Collection)
Ingholt Archive PS 480:
Script: Palmyrene Aramaic.
Location on relief: To the left of the female’s
head.
Transcription:
ḤBL
ʾMTḤʾ
BRT ZBYDʾ
YWNYT
Translation: Alas, Amtaḥâ daughter of Zebîdâ the Greek (woman)
Woman has a full set of jewelry including a bracelet with a little bell, and a headdress with a lunula-shaped ornament. She wears a tunic dalmatic trimmed with fur.
For bells in Palmyra see Dorothy Mackay “Jewellery from Palmyra and its significance”, in: Iraq Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1949), pp. 160-187 (40 pages)Published By: British Institute for the Study of Iraq
- – Daughters and wives: Defining women in Palmyrene inscriptions, in S. Krag and R. Raja (eds.), Women, children and the family in Palmyra, 2019 Eleonora CUSSINI
- – Representations of Women and Children in Palmyrene Funerary Loculus Reliefs, Loculus Stelae and Wall Paintings; 2016 Rubina Raja
- The Ingholt Archive: The Palmyrene Material, Transcribed with Commentary and Bibliography (published by Brepols in 2022)
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