The collection of Palmyrene Funerary Portraits in the Musei Vaticani notes and observations

The collection of Palmyrene Funerary Portraits in the Musei Vaticani notes and observations Sotto la cappa del camino. Antologia di conte, canzoncine, filastrocche

Raja, R. (2017): Powerful images of the deceased: Palmyrene funerary portrait culture between local, Greek and Roman representations, in Bilder der Macht: Das griechische Porträt und seine Verwendung in der antiken Welt, eds. Boschung D. and Queyrel, F. (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink), 319–348.

(Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo gregoriano profano) Literature: A. Giuliano, Catalogo dei ritratti romani del Museo Profano Lateranense , Città del Vaticano, 1957 ( Monumenti Vaticani di Arch. e d’Atre 10), p. 1, No. 1; fig. 1a in the 1st table of photos, fig. 1b in the 2nd table of … 29/05/2015 · Vatican Museums: Georgian Egyptian Museum at the Vatican - See 38,680 traveler reviews, 45,360 candid photos, and great deals for Vatican City, Italy, at Tripadvisor.

15/05/2020 · It is a sad fact that most of the sculpture created in ancient Greece has vanished. Of that which has survived, a majority is funerary sculpture. These highly visible markers commemorating the dead were traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities, where they could be seen by all Jul 7, 2015 - Portrait of Cleopatra VII (?). Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum.

Lenos-sarcophagus with representation of the Dionysiac procession. White Naxian marble. Ca. 150 CE. Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, East Portico, 5