Funerary relief of a woman from Palmyra, Syria, restituted from Lebanon in 2014.
Triangular brooch with a feline (lion?) head, three necklaces, crotalia type earrings, ornamental headband.
source UNESCO >> https://twitter.com/UNESCOarabic/status/1131550063912718339?s=20
“The two high-relief busts from the National Museum of Palmyra returned to Syria and delivered to the Higher Institute for Conservation and Restoration of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism at the end of the exhibition in the exhibition “Reborn from destruction. Ebla, Nimrud, Palmira ”held at the Colosseum.
(TurismoItaliaNews) The two works, vandalized by Daesh militias during the occupation of the archaeological site, were subjected to a high-tech conservation intervention at the stone materials restoration laboratory in the San Michele a Ripa site, where large portions of modeled, after an accurate diagnostic campaign conducted with the most advanced techniques, they were reconstructed in virtual and then, through 3D printing, reproduced by sintering of powders and anchored to the original with reversible constraint.” https://www.turismoitalianews.it
Published: 28 February 2017
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