- Type is exactly "Museum Exhibit"
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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
Limestone funerary relief of a deceased couple
This limestone relief in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus depicts a deceased couple between two columns with an unfinished looking garland displayed above their heads.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Limestone, Roman, Sculpture, Syria
Limestone funerary relief of a woman
This limestone bust of a woman is now in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Limestone, Roman, Sculpture, Syria
Limestone representation of a deity with solar rays and a crescent moon
This detail of a relief in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus depicts a lunar deity framed within a crescent moon and wearing a radiate crown of solar rays.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Limestone, Roman, Sculpture, 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
Roman Sarcophagus
This limestone sarcophagus is unfinished as the wreath is roughly blocked out in the lower part of the tomb, but the eagle on the lid looks relatively well finished.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Limestone, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Sarcophagus, 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
The Bolnisi Stela
Stelae and carved stone crosses are a common phenomenon in early Christian Kartli. They are believed to date between the C5th and C10th. One of the earliest and most well-known is the stela from Bolnisi in Kvemo Kartli which has been ascribed a date of the C5th-C6th and which is now housed in the Shalva Amiranashvili State Museum of Art in Tbilisi.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Bolnisi, C5th-C6th, Georgia, Kvemo Kartli, Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Art, Stela, Tbilisi
The Galilee Boat, Galilee
In 1986 during a particularly dry period along the northern shores of the Sea of Galilee, the Galilee Boat, also termed the Jesus Boat, was discovered lying in the newly exposed lake-bed. A major salvage operation soon began to uncover, protect and preserve the boat. It measures 8m in length and is over 2m wide and it once had a mast and a sail. The boat was made from a variety of different woods (10+) and radiocarbon analysis has dated the vessel to the 1st Century CE. It informs our understanding of fishing and transportation crafts that served the Sea of Galilee during this particularly early period. Did Jesus and His Disciples use a similar vessel?
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Boat, C1st, C20th, Galilee, Israel, Wood
Views of artefacts in the garden of Damascus National Museum
Views of the garden of the National Museum in Damascus that is used to display primarily Classical and Late Antique sculpture, sarcophagi and architectural elements.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Late Antique, Limestone, Roman, Sculpture, Syria