This is a photograph of the sculpture, taken when it was still in Palmyra Museum, before ISIS seized the city, beheaded archaeologist Khaled al-Asa'ad, and started destroying the ruins and the museum collections.
This is a photograph of the same portrait, provided in 2017 by a very well known London dealer, who was offering it around for sale. It subsequently went 'underground' ...
The dealer tried to claim we were confusing the sculpture above with the one below, which he claimed was the one he was offering: it's a very different piece, which had gone through an auction (with a strange 'provenance' that jumbled up two real, but different, Americans with similar names who lived in the same State).
Unfortunately, although the second Palmyrene sculpture is similar-ish, the Aramaic inscription shows that they are different pieces.
The inscription on the one above reads:
'TTN BR QRBLWN HBL
'Atetan son of Corbulon
and it comes from the Hypogeum of Zabd'ateh and Moquimu.
If you're offered it, or if you bought it, contact law enforcement.
