This limestone slab with carved funerary relief was once attached to the wall of a tomb outside the city of Palmyra. Because Palmyra was a Roman city at the edge of the eastern region of the empire, this bust represents a mingling of cultural elements. The hairstyle and the robe are Roman, but the frontal, symmetrical presentation of the head and the stylized treatment of the robe’s folds are provincial. The chiseled Aramaic inscription to the left of the young man’s head reads, “Woe! Gadiâ (son of) Taibbol, (son of) Nur_teh.”