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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The statuary type of satyr (a mythological servant of the god Dionysus) with pigskin is one of the most popular genre figures of Roman antiquity.
2nd century AD or later.
White marble with vertical layering. H 80 cm.
Found 1990 on the Decumanus Maximus opposite the podium monument.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara
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