Marble Palmyrene Funerary Stele

Title: Marble Palmyrene Funerary Stele
Inventory Number: A0426
Date Acquired: 1963
Source: Origins, Boston
Provenance: Syria
From Date: 1
To Date: 100
Description: Rectangular stele w naiskos frame occupying 5/6 of surface, lower 1/6 given to inscription in large capitals:

ΣΑΤΟΡΝΙΛΑ • ΑΛΥΠΟ ΧΑΙΡΕ
Satornila, daughter of Alypos, Greetings!

Within naiskos woman in chiton & himation reclining on kline w elaborately turned legs, in front of which round 3-legged table in birds-eye perspective on which large aryballos in center, smaller skyphos on l & ?dipper on r. Woman reclines against triple-segmented pillow to her left, w upper body frontal, lower body profile; l arm bent, hand holding cup, r hand stretched out over lower body w handing holding ?purse; features of face clearly articulated, hair in waves fr central part.
State of Preservation: Chipped on edges, large fragment missing fr edge nr woman’s head. Darkish incrustation.
Color: Ca 5Y 7/1 (light gray); incrustation 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown)
Type: burial
Material: marble