Book contents
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ancient Relief
- 2 Thinking through Marble
- 3 The Body in Relief in Archaic Funerary Sculpture
- 4 Relief in Athenian Vase Painting
- 5 Sculpture, Relief, and the Surrounding Space
- 6 Seeing the Past
- 7 Remedial Relief
- 8 Foregrounding the Background in Roman Relief Sculpture
- 9 Encrusted in Ancestors
- 10 Relief on and for the Body in Late Antique Numismatic Jewelry
- Index
- References
9 - Encrusted in Ancestors
Formal Reflections on the Funerary Reliefs of Palmyra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2025
Book contents
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ancient Relief
- 2 Thinking through Marble
- 3 The Body in Relief in Archaic Funerary Sculpture
- 4 Relief in Athenian Vase Painting
- 5 Sculpture, Relief, and the Surrounding Space
- 6 Seeing the Past
- 7 Remedial Relief
- 8 Foregrounding the Background in Roman Relief Sculpture
- 9 Encrusted in Ancestors
- 10 Relief on and for the Body in Late Antique Numismatic Jewelry
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter analyzes the aesthetic strategies of the funerary portraits of ancient Palmyra, examining how their status as relief sculptures – the relationship between the sculpted image and the stone slab that supports it – mediates their messaging. Taking the portrait of a Palmyrene woman in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology as a starting point, I demonstrate that the purposes of these works cannot be recognized unless their status as a corporate body of relief sculptures is further held in view. I reinsert these portraits into an original tomb context of display, reconstructing the powerful visual effects these works were designed to create when operating together as an ensemble: at once concealing and revealing, affectively engaging and emotionally withdrawn, individual and defined by group dynamics. Palmyrene funerary sculptures emerge as both participating in many of the broader discourses of Greco-Roman artistic production, as well as in a Parthian visual tradition, while ultimately achieving a highly distinctive and semantically complex localized visual impact. The chapter underscores the visual strategies of these reliefs as a creation of the Syrian desert oasis of Palmyra.
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