Compilation and digitisation of the Palmyrene corpus of funerary portraits

Loculus stele depicting two standing boys, with two background inscriptions (Ingholt Archive IN 2776, courtesy of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).

26 October 2018 by Christina Levisen

Raja, R. (2018). Compilation and digitisation of the Palmyrene corpus of funerary portraits. Antiquity 92.365: E8. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.218

Abstract

Since 2012, the ‘Palmyra Portrait Project’ has collected, studied and digitised over 3700 limestone funerary portraits from Palmyra dating to the first three centuries AD. This represents the largest collection of funerary representations from one place in the classical world.

Keywords: Syria, Palmyra, portraits, digitisation