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.
Creator
Emma Loosley
Date of Visit
29th August 2010
Contributor
Joshua Bryant
Rights
Metadata and all media released under Creative Commons
unless otherwise indicated
Type
Museum Exhibit
Tags
Basalt, Damascus, Damascus National Museum, Late Antique, Museum, Museum Exhibit, Syria
Collection
Citation
Emma Loosley, “Carved Basalt Slab,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed November 21, 2024, https://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/697.