This commemorative stele is currently on display in the garden of the National Museum of Damascus. The sculpture features the busts of a middle-aged man and a woman with classical physionomy. The lady's neck is long and cylindrical; her ovoid face is framed on top by a single row of symmetrical hair locks parted in the middle; her nose and left eye are mutilated; she seems to be wearing earrings. The man's head is triangular in shape, and he has a full mustache and a curly short beard; his nose is mutilated. The head is disproportionately large. The woman is wearing a peplos. The man's garment is a Greek chiton.
Substance: basalt.
Dimensions are not provided.
Era: Roman.
Provenance: probably Hauran.
Photo credit: Marina Milella March 20, 1993 (Wikimedia).
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