18 Items
General view of the garden of Damascus National Museum with Classical and Late Antique sculpture on display
This image shows how sculpture is displayed in an outdoor context at the National Museum of Damascus as the collection is so extensive that only the exceptional works are displayed inside the museum.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Sculpture, Syria
Limestone Funerary Effigy of a Man
This limestone carving is a funerary effigy for an unknown man.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Figure, Late Antique, Limestone, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Sculpture, Syria
Sarcophagus with mythological figures and swags
This limestone sarcophagus is decorated with mythological figures and stylised foliate swags.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Figure, Limestone, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Roman, Sarcophagus, Syria
Limestone Funerary Effigy of a Woman
This limestone carving is a funerary effigy for an unknown woman.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Figure, Funerary Relief, Late Antique, Limestone, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Roman, Syria
Carved Basalt Slab
This carved basalt slab contains cruciform imagery but is extremely unlikely to have come from a church, as such motifs were widespread in the Roman and Late Antique periods and often were intended as abstract designs rather than having an underlying meaning.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Late Antique, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Syria
Basalt Door
These basalt doors are found across Syria, but generally most frequently originate from the Syrian Limestone Massif around Aleppo and Idlib provinces. They are found throughout the Late Antique period and were a particular feature of tower-houses occupied by multiple families. In some cases these doors have remained in situ, thus enabling us to see how they would have been far easier to operate than the modern viewer would expect.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Door, Late Antique, Limestone Massif, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Syria
Roman Sarcophagus
This Roman sarcophagus in the gardens of the National Museum illustrates the working methods of Roman artisans as the decoration is roughly blocked out but crucially left unfinished so that the purchaser could dictate exactly how they wanted the object to be completed.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Roman, Sarcophagus, Syria
Bennawi Bema Throne
The church of Bennawi, south of Aleppo, was reported destroyed by the 1950s when Georges Tchalenko undertook his monumental three volume study of the Syrian Limestone Massif. The basalt "bema throne" or pulpit was preserved and is now in the garden of the National Museum in Damascus.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Basalt, Bema, Bennawi, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Inscription, Pulpit, Sculpture, Syria, Syriac, Syriac Inscription, Throne