BSY_FB_06_p038

38

Dêhes

The lower portions seem to have been
worked in better material - here the
sculpture is better preserved. The ornament
of the conches, the masks and garlands
of the lower row of sarcophagi, the squatting
genii, the head of Medusa and the little
lion are works of excellent decorative style.

The busts and the spandril sculptures
are executed in crumbling rock and are
badly weathered. One notices however, in
the group particularly a lack of proportion
in the human figures while the perspective
of the two oxen is good. The busts are
really too badly weathered for me to judge
fairly. They are very simple with
drapery about the shoulders of Roman style.
Otherwise they are strongly reminiscent of
Palmyrene busts. The single figure
on the south side is quite unlike the other
reliefs in composition and treatment.
It is ill proportioned but spirited in action
it is very badly weatherworn.

38

Dêhes

The lower portions seem to have been
worked in better material - here the
sculpture is better preserved. The ornament
of the conches, the masks and garlands
of the lower row of sarcophagi, the squatting
genii, the head of Medusa and the little
lion are works of excellent decorative style.

The busts and the spandril sculptures
are executed in crumbling rock and are
badly weathered. One notices however, in
the group particularly a lack of proportion
in the human figures while the perspective
of the two oxen is good. The busts are
really too badly weathered for me to judge
fairly. They are very simple with
drapery about the shoulders of Roman style.
Otherwise they are strongly reminiscent of
Palmyrene busts. The single figure
on the south side is quite unlike the other
reliefs in composition and treatment.
It is ill proportioned but spirited in action
it is very badly weatherworn.