22 Items
Basalt funerary stele of a woman
This basalt stele shows a full-length portrait of the deceased. It is currently on display in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Funerary Stele, Roman, Sculpture, Syria
Basalt funerary stele with depiction of a family and a Greek inscription
This stele shows a large sculpture of a man accompanied by the smaller figures of a woman and child and a Greek inscription. It is currently displayed in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Funerary Stele, Roman, Sculpture, Syria
Basalt funerary stele with Greek inscriptions and symbolic items
This funerary stele shows items that meant something to the deceased along with a crude Greek inscription. It is now displayed in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Funerary Stele, Greek Inscription, Roman, Syria
Basalt relief of the tauroctony
This basalt relief attached to the wall of the National Museum in Damascus shows the tauroctony, the central cult scene of Mithraism where Mithras slays the bull to ensure the passage of the seasons and the continued fertility of the Earth.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Mithras, Roman, Sculpture, Syria, Tauroctony
Basalt relief of winged victories
This basalt relief of winged victories is displayed on an exterior wall of the National Museum of Damascus. The relatively crude carving of the object reflects the difficulty of working with basalt.
Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Roman, Sculpture, Syria, Winged Victory
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
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
Bosra city gate
One of the city gates of Bosra built of the local basalt.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Archaeology, Architecture, Basalt, Bosra, City gate, Roman, Roman road, Syria, Wall
Bosra Bath complex
A bath complex in the vicinity of the theatre of Bosra.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Basalt, Bath, Bosra, Syria