Suriye Çölünde Palmyra’daki (Tedmür) Mezar Rölyeflerinin Gizemi

Throughout history, people were delighted to express their sense and availibities on various types of arts by using different materials. Art was also the way in which people could reveal their possesions in both materially and morally. The tower tomb reliefs of Palmyra reflect the wealth, power and the taste of people of the city although the area looks unnatural for these possesions. Extraordinary tower tombs with their unique architectural structure were mainly made of lime stone by looking austere from outside but quite surprisingly elegant with their marble and limestone reliefs inside. It can be derived from the reliefs that the religious art of Palmyra was woven out of many strands. In many superficial ways it is Greco-Roman but in detail and from pictorial subjects is ‘oriental’. The compositions of the family and the i

Keywords

Palmyra, grave art, funerary reliefs, ornaments, wealth, cultural heritage.