id: 140425 accession number: 1964.359 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.359 updated: 2023-04-21 11:01:23.680000 Tomb Relief, 230. Syria, Palmyra, 3rd century. Limestone; overall: 55.3 x 73.7 x 18.5 cm (21 3/4 x 29 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.359 title: Tomb Relief title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 230 creation date earliest: 230 creation date latest: 230 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Syria, Palmyra, 3rd century technique: limestone department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 55.3 x 73.7 x 18.5 cm (21 3/4 x 29 x 7 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Stories of Syria's Textiles: Art and Heritage across Two Millenia opening date: 2023-10-15T04:00:00 Stories of Syria's Textiles: Art and Heritage across Two Millenia. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (organizer) (October 15, 2023-January 28, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE H. Herzer & Co., Munich date: by 1964 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Although its findspot is unknown, this high relief almost certainly once sealed a burial niche of a mausoleum at Palmyra. It illustrates a blending of Roman and Parthian artistic traditions. Set within a sumptuous border of beads and leaves, a wealthy man awakens on a luxuriously cushioned bed as his attendant offers him a wine bowl decorated with crosshatchings. Both are dressed according to Parthian custom, wearing pants and pleated tunics, but the man’s languid pose is taken from classical prototypes. The subject is a variant of a formulaic funerary banquet scene in which proffered wine welcomes the deceased into a well-appointed afterlife. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Apollo: The Magazine of the Arts, Ed. D. Sutton. November 1964. page number: Ill. p. cxiii (Antiken, H. Herzer & Co., Munich). url: “Year in Review for 1964.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 10 (1964): 236–66. page number: Ill. p. 238, mentioned p. 263. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152021 "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October-December, 1964m January-March, 1965," The Art Quarterly. [New York, etc.], vo. XXVIII.1-2 (1965). page number: See pp. 104, 112 (ill.). url: “Annual Report for 1964.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 6 (1965): 141–66. page number: See pp. 154-155. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152054 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 26 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n50 Cooney, John D. “A Funerary Relief from Palmyra.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 2 (1966): 34–37. page number: Ill. cover, figs. 1-2. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152086 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 26 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n48 Kozloff, Arielle P. “Three Ancient near Eastern Celebrations and a Guest of Honor.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 1 (1974): 14–26. page number: Ill. p. 22, fig. 18. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152509 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 30 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n50 Vermeule, Cornelius C. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada. Malibu, Calif: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1981. page number: Cat. 335, p. 386. url: Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 334, fig. 12 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n28 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.359/1964.359_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.359/1964.359_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.359/1964.359_full.tif