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The peculiar folds on the left shoulder recur on three other modius-busts, two from the second group(39) and one from the third.(40)

Under these circumstances it would seem difficult to choose between the second and the third group, but as the folds on the left upper arm lack the form characteristic of group (41 ) and, as a modius-bust in the Musée National of Beograd representing a brother of Yarhibôlâ a certain 'Ammôn, son of Neshâ, (soil of) 'Oggâ, (son of) Shalmâ,(42) certainly belongs to group 11, 1 should assign our bust to the second group and date it among the later sculptures within that period, nearer 200 than ISO A.D.

III

Male bust with Palmyrene inscription in eight lines to the right of the head (pl. IX, 1) :

'Haggûr, son of Malkû, (son of) Malkibel, alas ! Year 548."(43) The date is, as usual in Palmyra, given according to the Seleucid era, which starts the first of October in the year 312 B.Ç so that our bust is dated 236-37 A.D.

Haggûr's hair is arranged in parallel rows of snail curls, two deep furrows lie across his forehead and the eyebrows are done with small incised strokes in a herring-bone pattern. The iris is here circumscribed by one incised circle, while the pupil is indicated by a small hole. In contrast to the two former busts, Haggûr wears a moustache and beard, the latter indicated by small triangular locks. The chiton and himation are arranged as on the bust of Yarhibôlâ (see bust nr. 11) and the chiton has a similar, though somewhat broader, clavus to the left. Under the chiton Haggûr seems, however, to wear an undergarment with an embroidered lining which shows around the neck just above the chiton. The right hand rests in the himation while the left hand holds a fold of the himation-picce which hangs from the left shoulder, a pose characteristic of the male busts in the third group, as is also the very naturalistic way in which the folds of the himation on the left upper arm are

38. Studier, p. 91-92.
39. Studier, PS 246 and the bust published infra as nr. VI.
40. Studier, PS 305.
41. Studier, p. 91.
42. Studier, PS 244A. A relief in the collection
 		    of Azeez Khayat, New York, Studier, p. 112, PS 197, represents a brother of a Palmyrene whose bust is likewise in the Museum of the American University of Beirut, Porter and Torrey, op. cit. p. 265- 66, nr. VIII; 5tudier, p. 112, PS 196.
43, I.N. 32.25. Height 51.5, width 45 cm.

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