#PalmyraSimilarities
A short (?) thread with my not necessarily very logical associations about #Palmyra and the wreaths.
A short (?) thread with my not necessarily very logical associations about #Palmyra and the wreaths.
The examples of wreaths from priests' modiuses #Palmyra Syria. All three wreaths have a flower in the centre. The exact meaning of different central medallions is not known, they are probably associated with different cults in Palmyra. 
Different time (4th-3rd C BCE), different place, but this Etruscan wreath reminds me of Palmyra
I'm happy to read the technical description: The leaves and the rosettes are sewn with wires to a ribbon of thin gold sheet
Note the Gorgoneia heads at the ends
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I'm happy to read the technical description: The leaves and the rosettes are sewn with wires to a ribbon of thin gold sheet
Note the Gorgoneia heads at the ends
collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/w…
The theme of a wreath with a flower / rosette in the centre also appears in the architecture of Palmyra, on the friezes of, among others, the theater (last photo).
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