Skip to content

Palmyra, funerary relief of Yarhay and his servant, 230-250 CE [d/b]

Photo: Ana Cecilia Gonzales (color) after Rubina Raja in: Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean
Courtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Relief of Yarhay and his servant(after Hvidberg-Hansen–Ploug 1993, no. 126; PAT 0679) Beyond the Spindle: Investigating the Role of Palmyrene Women, in E. Cussini (ed.), A Journey to Palmyra.

young man, servant? scribe? with long hair on the back of the head

Loculus relief of the stele-motif type depicting two men and a priestly hat placed on the pedestal centrally in the relief.

Date: 230–250 CE. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, inv. no. IN 1024.