A Palmyrene Altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum

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Authors
Publication date 2013
Journal Syria
Volume | Issue number 90
Pages (from-to) 391-408
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract This article concerns the publication of an altar from Palmyra that is in the possession of the Cincinnati Art Museum. The altar is decorated, uniquely, on all four sides, with reliefs representing Palmyrene deities: a seated goddess, an armed desert deity, a solar deity, and a Poseidon figure carrying a trident. The altar provides the first instance of the latter figure appearing on Palmyrene sculpture.
Document type Article
Language English
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