Lot no. 73
Funerary stele with inscription, Palmyra, Syria, 3rd-4th BC.
Bas-relief showing Zeus Ampelitès and cattle, inscription in Greek in the lower marble register, H 38 cm. Provenance: M. Maurizio Versano (1916-1980), collection built up in the 1930s and then by inheritance; acquired by the current owner in 1998.
Publication: Bulletin de Correspondance hellénique, vol. 107, 1983, p. 535, fig. 8, seen on the Beirut art market before 1973 (https://www.persee.fr/doc/bch_0007-4217_1983_num_107_1_1898)
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