1. The fresco of Ganymede's abduction in the Tomb of the Three Brothers in #Palmyra. Placed in a central medallion on a barrel-vaulted ceiling, it depicts the myth of Ganymede carried off by Zeus’ eagle, a Greco-Roman motif linked to divine selection and immortality.
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Łukasz Sokołowski
In the lunette of the vault a mythological scene: Odysseus discovers Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes on Skyros. A symbolic call to leave domestic safety and embrace a warrior’s fate resonant in frontier #Palmyra during the Persian wars
c. 150–250 CE
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Łukasz Sokołowski
#FrescoFriday brought me back to the Tomb of the Three Brothers in #Palmyra. In the main exedra, medallions of the dead rise between loculi, upheld by Victories; above, Odysseus finds Achilles on Skyros. Palmyrene matrons with infants line the buttresses. Striking case of provincial cosmopolitanism
