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Relief of a woman, Palmyra [Berkshire Museum] [d/b]

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“Berkshire 1903.7.6 depicts a female frontally, from the waist up, on a limestone slab measuring ca. 56 cm high and 40 cm wide. A curtain, or “dorsalium” is carved on the slab behind her, with the inscription tucked  between her left ear and the (missing) inner side of the dorsalium.”
No name, no dating, fragmentary inscription.
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, artifact 1903.7.6 (PAT  0960) 
https://berkshiremuseum.org/

In the publication “Two Palmyrene Inscriptions in the Collection of the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA: PAT 0960 and 1773”
https://www.academia.edu