Museum of Palmyra |
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You will see the museum on your right hand upon entering the modern village, 2 km. from the Palmyra Cham Palace. It houses collections from Prehistoric Palmyra and its
surrounding, and ethnographic collections (first floor). It is more
particularly interesting for its sculptures (ground floor), showing a
composite art between oriental formulas (Parhs and Sassanids) as shown
by the full-fared faced figures, flat relieves, costumes, etc... and a
Roman Hellenistic influence, i.e. western, noticeable in some subjects
like in this relief, where a deity appears in the form of a Heracles
with a lion's skin brandishing a club, in the folds of some clothes,
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