English: Limestone portrait of a leading Palmyrene, c. 230-250 AD, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. An oak wreath with a small bust at its centre crows this powerful statue head. The unfinished back shows that the statue stood in a niche. The carved eyelashes are an unusual detail. The pupil and iris were inlaid.
It represent Odenaethus according to Harald Ingholt.[1]
Date
26 October 2013, 16:02:05 (according to Exif data)
This image was originally posted to Flickr. Its license was verified as "cc-by-sa-2.0" by the UploadWizard Extension at the time it was transferred to Commons. See the license information for further details.
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
↑Ingholt, Harald (1976), 'Varia Tadmorea: II The Odeinat family', in Palmyre: Bilan et Perspectives: Colloque de Strasbourg 18–20 Octobre 1973. Strasbourg: Association pour l'Étude de la Civilisation Romaine, pp. 115–37.
Captions
Limestone portrait of a leading Palmyrene, c. 230-250 AD. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen