Zebonia as prisioner

The Chapter Hall houses the tapestry series “Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra”, woven in Brussels by Geraert Peemans circa 1667. These eleven panels narrate the life of Queen Zenobia and her defeat at the hands of the emperor Emperor Aurelian.
This tapestry, located at the entrance of the Chapter Hall on the right side, depicts Zenobia and her ministers in the tribunal before Emperor Aurelian. Zenobia had fled south toward present-day Iraq but was captured by Roman troops. In the tapestry, she is shown not kneeling before Aurelian, wearing her royal garments and accompanied by her sons Herenianus and Timolaus. Aurelian, in contrast, displays his victory seated on a throne with Corinthian capitals and a crimson-red cloth, a symbol of authority and triumph.