A Complete Sarcophagus Excavated From Palmyra – Tomb of Malku

- The national museum of Damascus – متحف دمشق الوطني

Description

This funeral banquet scene is showing the diseased followed by his father or his brother or his older son ,his wife is at his feet and the boys standing between them . And the funereal bed is raised on tow posts between them the coffin front, which support busts representing some family individuals.

The tomb its self was built in 116 AD by

Maliku son of Maliku, son of Nurbel the doctor, for himself his sons and their sons”.

The inscription found in the tomb provided evidence that the tomb was used for buries until  267 AD. This inscription is now kept at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Inv, No, 3727.

The Carlsberg Glyptotek holds teh biggest collection of Palmyrian artifacts outside Syria merely as result to Ingholt’s several archaeological campaign from the late 1920’s till the late 1930’s or throw direct purchase from the local market.

  • Material: Limestone

  • Date: Early 3rd C C.E

  • Item Dimensions:

  • Excavated from: Palmyra – Tomb Of Maliku (Maliko) ; South West Necropolis

  • Archaeological Mission: Harald Ingholt – Danish Archaeological Mission 1937

  • National Museum Of Damascus (2011) Museum Number : 4947

  • VMS Code: Dam 022-2

Excavation Site Location

  • Abu al-Faraj al-ʿUsh, Muhammad, Adnan Joundi, and Bachir Zouhdi. A Concise Guide to the National Museum of Damascus. Translated by Muhammad Khalifa. Damascus: Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums, 1999, p. 119.
  • Raja, Rubina, and Annette Højen Sørensen. Harald Ingholt & Palmyra. Translated by Heidi Flegal. Aarhus: Aarhus University, 2015. Online edition.

https://projects.au.dk/uploads/media/Raja_Hoejen_Soerensen_Harald_Ingholt_and_Palmyra_2015_eng.pdf

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