Funerary relief of a woman with a child.
‘Alas | Amataḥâ | daughter of Zebîdâ | the Greek’ (PAT 0907). Dated to 200-235 (EC) (200-273, RR)
Strasbourg Museum (formerly Schlumberger Collection)
Sources:
– Daughters and wives: Defining women in Palmyrene inscriptions, in S. Krag and R. Raja (eds.), Women, children and the family in Palmyra, 2019 Eleonora CUSSINI
– Representations of Women and Children in Palmyrene Funerary Loculus Reliefs, Loculus Stelae and Wall Paintings; 2016 Rubina Raja
Woman has a full set of jewelry including a bracelet with a little bell, and a headdress with a lunula-shaped ornament. She wears a tunic dalmatic trimmed with fur.
For bells in Palmyra see Dorothy Mackay “Jewellery from Palmyra and its significance”, in: Iraq Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1949), pp. 160-187 (40 pages)Published By: British Institute for the Study of Iraq