Umm Qais Antiquity Museum
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara
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Torso of a highly simplified replica of the Artemis type in the temple of Ephesus. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was beside Zeus the most important deity of the Greek-Roman Decapolis.
Possibly a work from Anatolia, from the second half of the 1st century AD.
White marble. H 46 cm.
Found in 1988 east of the podium monument, reused in a late antique spolia wall.
© Photo, summary, translation from German: Haupt & Binder
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara