Stone relief showing a funerary banquet, from Palmyra

An image of Funerary equipment/grave relief. Stone relief showing a funerary banquet. Man with family, from funerary monument. Production Place/Find Spot: Palmyra, Syria. Limestone, carved and inscribed, height 0.537 m, height, relief, 0.09 m, 101-200. Middle Roman Period.

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Funerary equipment/grave relief. Stone relief showing a funerary banquet. Man with family, from funerary monument. Production Place/Find Spot: Palmyra, Syria. Limestone, carved and inscribed, height 0.537 m, height, relief, 0.09 m, 101-200. Middle Roman Period.

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Accession Number: GR.6.1888
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 64
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Andrew Norman; Michael Jones
Image height: 666 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 201.87kB
Exposure time: 1/5
ISO Speed: 400
Fnumber: 11/1
Captured: 2018:03:05 00:24:44

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2nd Century AD banquet banqueteer bearded beards carved clothes clothing family fashion funerary funerary banquet funerary equipment grave relief gravestone hair hairstyle inscribed limestone male Middle Roman Palmyra reclining relations relief relief decoration Roman sculpture Syrian Turkish

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