THE GARDEN

In the garden of the Museum amongst the flowers, trees and long paths, the antiquities of considerable dimensions , are displayed. Here the beauty of nature is in harmony with the beauty of the creative works of man. The garden looks as If it were a museum in the open air.

There are steles, doors, windows, mosaics, capitals, sarcophaguses, statues of Palmyrene style and other statues of considerable dimensions made of basalt.

Big sand-stone statue depicting a lion opening
 its mouth as if she were roaring. It stands on its front limbs,
between them, appears a head of a bull which is all that remained of its prey.
Found at Latakia .

Sand-stone Roman sarcophagus

Sand-stone of Palmyrene style