Tessera

CBS Register: Object in clay (retangular, stuck in memory of the dead?) with inscription.

PBS XIV: Round clay tessera from Palmyra, 22 ½ x 16 ½ x 5 mm. Acquired, 1891. The face has the bust of a woman with the bushel – modius – mitre between two crescents and two stars above a much effaced inscription. The reverse has a crouched camel in a crown of laurel above two palmettes of eight dots round a central dot and their stem curling around.