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 seasons genius in the type of the so-called Hermes Erbach (due to the standing motive and the representation of the short shirt gathered with the left hand and sliding down the neckline on the shoulder. The statue that gave the name is in the Collection of Classical Antiquities in Erbach, Odenwald, Germany).
Hadrian/Early-Antonine transformation of an original of the 2nd century B.C., possibly a work from Anatolia.
White, fine crystalline marble. H torso 50 cm; H plinth 7,4 cm
Found in one of the three water basins in the thermal baths of Heracleides.
© 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