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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Tadmur
  • geo:34.552418,38.257141
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22174

Annotations

The Valley of the Tombs, in the hills to the south and west of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city, contains a series of funerary towers of various sizes. The towers were divided into compartments, or loculi, into which sarcophagi were placed before being sealed with slabs of stone carved with an image of the deceased and painted in lively colours.

See also Palmyra - Funerary Monuments


Relevant museums

Palmyra, archaeological museum

Archaeological Museum of the excavations in Palmyra

Gaziantep, Museum of Archaeology

Archaeological Museum

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Belgrade, Kalemegdan Lapidarium

Small museum with some sculpture and inscriptions.

Berlin, Altes Museum

Berlin, Altes Museum

Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz

Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Brussels, Koninklijke musea voor kunst en geschiedenis

Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

The national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.


Nearby

Tomb of Iamliku, Palmyra

First century AD graves of the Yamliku Family

Tower of Kithoth, Palmyra

Funerary tower tomb.

Damascus Gate at Palmyra

Palmyra city gate


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2015-09-06. Last update by René Voorburg on 2015-09-06. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/22174 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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