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Offering-bearers with animals

File:Egitto, sacerdote in processione con un toro, I sec. ac.-IV dc ca..JPG Egitto, sacerdote in processione con un toro, I sec. ac.-IV dc ca.
 
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77133Fragment of slab in limestone, mortuary stone. In high relief, young man (bust) with lamb on a tray, Palmyrene inscription to the right and left of his head.
Man with a lamb on a tray

https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/294156
A funerary stele showing an offering-bearer with a Parthian dress stored in the Museum of Palmyraa funerary stele showing an offering-bearer with a Parthian dress stored in the Museum of Palmyra  http://www.amwaj.ca/old/?page=article&id=5386 (website not active anymore)

A funerary stele (2nd 3rd century) showing an offering-bearer with a Parthian dress, discovered by the Syrian team of Prof. Khaled al-Asaad and stored in the Museum of Palmyra.
He holds a tray with a panther, a sign that this was probably an offering to a deity
 source Getty images
Palmyrenische Figur, eingemauert im Haus ses Schech zu Karyeten
https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=183264&cachesLoaded=true
Fragment of a character in Palmyrenian costume in full mutilated foot below, Col. 
Saar Berlin, temple of Bel (Palmyra, Syria)
ca 1923

https://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr/medihal-00783782