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Oasis metropolis where Rome met Persia

This funerary relief from the city of Palmyra (Syria) represents a priest. Cleanly shaved, the man wears a toga, which characterized as a Roman citizen. In his left hand he holds a vase filled with fr
This funerary relief from the city of Palmyra (Syria) represents a priest. Cleanly shaved, the man wears a toga, which characterized as a Roman citizen. In his left hand he holds a vase filled with… © TimeTravelRome, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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