As Suwayda Museum
As Suwayda Museum
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Features a collection of ancient Syrian mosaics and statues.
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Geoff_from_Oz
Brisbane, Australia81 contributions
I'm not much of a museum buff but this stop on the journey from Bosra to Damascus is worth an hour or two in your itinerary. It comprises a number of halls including a large atrium containing mosaics and large, ancient stone sculptures. The curator spoke no English but we managed enough schoolboy French to admire the intricacies of the locking mechanism on a hinged tomb door, which was made from a single slab of stone. Most arresting was the almost complete mosaic of the Birth of Venus. Unlike Botticelli's version in the Uffizi, Venus sits rather than stands in a scallop shell admiring her reflection in a hand mirror whilst the shell is supported above a sea of fish by two crab-horned devils. No photos are allowed so I don't know how this one found its way into my camera. Perhaps the devils?
Written 4 September 2009
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Are there comb to Petra? The timeline bevor chr is intertessing
Written 22 August 2018
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