Catalogue: The Palmyra Collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek - 2019 PDF

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THE PALMYRA COLLECTION CATALOGUE THE PALMYRA COLLECTION NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK Rubina Raja NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK 2019 This book is part of a series of catalogues covering the collections in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. The publication is financed by the Carlsberg Foundation & the New Carlsberg ...

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THE PALMYRA COLLECTION

CATALOGUE

THE PALMYRA COLLECTION NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK

Rubina Raja

NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK 2019

This book is part of a series of catalogues covering the collections in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. The publication is financed by the Carlsberg Foundation & the New Carlsberg Foundation.

© Rubina Raja © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 2019 ISBN 978-87-7452-364-2 Editors: Eva Mortensen, the Palmyra Portrait Project & Anne Marie Nielsen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Layout: Jakob Helmer Photographer: Anders Sune Berg Retouching: Narayana Press Printed by Narayana Press Cover photo, see cat. 91

Contents

7

Preface

9

Acknowledgements

11

Palmyra and the collection in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

61

Catalogue reading guidelines

63

Catalogue

65 65 89 111 247 265

Portraits

325

Sculptural and inscriptional fragments

351

Altars

361 363 405 425 451 459

Banqueting tesserae

465

Glass and faience

471

Stucco

488

Glossary

490

Bibliography

504

Concordances

Objects dated by inscription Stelae Loculus reliefs Sarcophagi lids (fragments) Heads (fragments)

With priests With figures (non-gods and non-priests) With gods and mythological figures With animals With symbols and inscriptions...