SYRIAN ANTIQUITIES OF THE GREEK, ROMAN
AND BYZANTINE PERIODS

Section Twelve

Garden of the Museum: contains large-sized sculptures. Prominent 
The lion of Latakia, some Sarcophaguses, mosaics and statues.

In the garden of the Museum amongst the flowers, trees and long paths, the antiquities of considerable dimensions , are displayed. Here the beauty of nature is in harmony with the beauty of the creative works of man. The garden looks as If it were a museum in the open air. There are steles, doors, windows, mosaics, capitals, sarcophaguses, statues of Palmyrene style and other statues of considerable dimensions made of basalt.
Big sand-stone statue depicting a lion opening  its mouth as if she were roaring. It stands on its front limbs, between them, appears a head of a bull which is all that remained of its prey. Found at Latakia .
Sand-stone Roman sarcophagus
	Sand-stone of Palmyrene style