Title: Loculus relief with two women, Berretâ and her daughter Martâ.[7]
Material: Limestone. Dimensions: 0.50 × 0.42 × 0.27.
Find Spot and Date: From the hypogeum of Artaban, in the southwest necropolis.
Period: The relief is dated between 100-130 CE.
General Observations: Plaque was found on this object in addition to scratches on some parts of its surface.
Photo credit: Idlib Antiquities Center
[7] References: Anna Sadurska and Adnan Bounni, Les sculptures funéraires de Palmyre (Rome, 1994) 32, cat. 31, fig. 13; Maura Heyn, “Gesture and Identity in the Funerary Art of Palmyra”, American Journal of Archeology 114 (2010), 631–661, esp. 644, appendix 1, cat. 10, 650, appendix 4, cat. 35; Signe Krag and Rubina Raja, “Representations of Women and Children in Palmyrene Funerary Loculus Reliefs, Loculus Stelae and Wall Paintings”, Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 9 (2016), 134-178, esp. 159 n. 15, 159 n. 19, 159 n. 32, 159 n. 36, n. 40, 36 nn. 42-43, 36 n. 45, 36 nn. 52-54, 36 n. 59, cat. 2; Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino, “Orient et Occident unis par enchantement dans la pierre sculptée. La sculpture figurative de Palmyre”, in Michel Al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq (eds.), La Syrie et le désastre archéologique du Proche-Orient, “Palmyre cite martyre” (Beirut, 2016), 66-82, esp. 70–71, fig. 5; Signe Krag, Funerary Representations of Palmyrene Women. From the First Century BC to the Third Century AD (Turnhout 2018),
39 n. 129, 75 n. 62, 78 nn. 89-91, 79 n. 98, 79 n. 103, 80 n. 109, 95 n. 2, 107 n. 107, 115 n. 63, 179, cat. 54; Signe Krag, “Palmyrene funerary buildings and family burial patterns”, in Signe Krag and Rubina Raja (eds.), Women, children and the family in Palmyra (Copenhagen, 2019), 38-66, esp. 47 n. 80 n. 87, 49 n. 105, 50 n. 119 n. 123 n. 125, 62, cat. 61.
Inscription: Delbert R. Hillers, Eleonora Cussini, Palmyrene Aramaic Texts (Baltimore, 1996), no. 2654.
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