| Period sculptures of Jerash, Al Hussein Park - Amman |
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• GROUP EXHIBIT:
MAKAN HOUSE OF EXPRESSION, AMMAN, JUNE 2006
• GROUP EXHIBIT:
“WADI RUM ART RETREAT:
EAST AND WEST MEET AROUND A NEW COMPASS”
ORIENT GALLERY, AMMAN, MAY 2006
• PERSONAL EXHIBIT:
“WATER & AIR”
ORIENT GALLERY, AMMAN, APRIL 2006
• GROUP EXHIBIT:
“MURALS OF HOPE”
ORIENT GALLERY, AMMAN DECEMBER 2005
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Recovered in 1991 in the “North Theatre” of Jerash (Roman odeum of Gerasa) these three Architectural ornamentation figures are dated between 165/235 AD. They are hewn from the same type of local yellow limestone as the theatre and are unique to Jordan as the only certain examples of sculpture occupying this location in a theatre in the near east.
Their iconography and style, referencing the Greek and Roman gods of music and theatre is new evidence of local sculptors in the Decapolis working in Hellenistic mode. Local sculptors, nevertheless, applied special decorative and calligraphic qualities to these human representations and changed the ratios of classical anatomy noticeably.
Apollo is recognizable by the attribute of the kithara (lyre)(original height 35.5 cm), The Maenad (bacchante) by the attributes of the thyrsus and the drum (tympanon) (original height 38.0 cm) and Accompaniment to Maenad by the flute (aulos) (original height 33.0 cm).
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Other Images
Flutist
Dancer
Apollo
Apollo Close-up
Dancer Close-up
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