A Syrian Limestone Head of a Youth, Palmyra, 2nd/3rd Century A.D.

with bow-shaped lips, straight nose, and almond-shaped eyes beneath grooved eyebrows, his long hair arranged in rows of voluted curls and surmounted by a Phrygian cap with beaded, volute, and rosette decoration.

French private collection, Nice, acquired in the 1920s

As shown, note chipped nosepit and abraded top of rosette
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For a winged genius wearing a child's tunic and a Phrygian cap, from the ceiling of the Temple of Baal at Palmyra, see H. Seyrig, R. Amy, and E. Will, Le temple de Bel à Palmyre, Paris, 1975, pl. 50, fig. 143, K. Tanabe, ed., Sculptures of Palmyra, Tokyo, 1986, pp. 50 and 55, and H. Seyrig, "Pseudattideia," in Scripta varia, Paris, 1985, pp. 457-468, especially p. 460 and fig. 1.