Cleveland Museum of Art
Tomb Relief
- Date
- 230 CE
- Medium
- limestone
- Culture
- Syria, Palmyra
- Department
- Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Although its findspot is unknown, this high relief almost certainly once sealed a burial niche of a mausoleum at Palmyra. It illustrates a blending of Roman and Parthian artistic traditions. Set within a sumptuous border of beads and leaves, a wealthy man awakens on a luxuriously cushioned bed as his attendant offers him a wine bowl decorated with crosshatchings. Both are dressed according to Parthian custom, wearing pants and pleated tunics, but the man’s languid pose is taken from classical prototypes. The subject is a variant of a formulaic funerary banquet scene in which proffered wine welcomes the deceased into a well-appointed afterlife.
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