Friday, December 5, 2025

Eros and His Nebel

 


This marble plate was acquired by the National Museum of Damascus in 1957. Its center is occupied by a winged Eros playing a stringed musical instrument, perhaps a Phoenician nebel

Provenance:?
Dimensions: 10.5 cm (outer diameter) and 8 cm (inner diameter). 
Era: Roman. 
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.  



Bašīr Zuhdī. Lamḥā ʿan al-ʾālāt al-musīqīyyā al-qadīmā wa mašāhid al-mūsīqīyyīin ʿala ʾāṯārinā al-fannīyyā. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 1972 (pp. 81-121).

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