Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Golan Heights. Kafr Nafakh, 1 CE - 199 CE. Statue. Dedicatory (?).

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1 CE - 199 CE Golan Kafr Nafakh

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The back of this statue is unworked, suggesting that it stood in some kind of niche or enclosure. A male(?) figure with head, shoulders and feet missing, draped in full- and half-length garments, holds a shield at his left hip. Medusa's head is engraved upon it in relief and the inscription runs along the its outer rim. We may look to a very similar statue, discovered by Butler in Sahr, Syria, for interpretation: A man in half- and full-length garments standing "in soldierly attitude;" his left hand holds an oval shield with nail-studded rim and, in the center, Medusa's head in relief. Butler suggests that the right hand originally held a spear. The inscription on the Sahr statue names the sculptor, and either the man depicted or the dedicator. It is possible that the same was true of this Kfar Nafakh statue.

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