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Funerary relief of Batmalkû and her son, 3rd C Palmyra [Pigorini Museum, Rome] [d/b]

Funerary relief from Palmyra, 3rd century. Inscription: Batmalkû [wife of Qirdâ] with her son Hairan.

In the Luigi Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography in Rome, inv. no 6011

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Woman wears a full set of jewelry including a bracelet with a little bell, and a hairpin.
For bells in Palmyra see Dorothy Mackay "Jewellery from Palmyra and its significance":

“Other favorite amulets were a small perforated disk and a little bell. One of the latter is seen on a bracelet worn by Marti, daughter of Jathai [Istanbul, Museum of Antiquities, no 3794].

These bell amulets have been found in considerable numbers in Roman Syria and Palestine, of different sizes and shapes, and apparently all of bronze; some which are cast and of some thickness, are ornamented with bearded faces on opposite sides [they are on exhibition of the American University of Beirut].”