Palmyra. Syria. View during sunset of the front of the Monumental Arch which was erected in the early third century AD under Septimius Severus to disguise the thirty degrees change of direction of the first and second sections of the Great Colonnade. The arch is richly decorated with motifs of acorns and oak leaves, palm trunks and acanthus shoots
Palmyra. Syria. View during sunset of the front of the Monumental Arch which was erected in the early third century AD under Septimius Severus to disguise the thirty degrees change of direction of the first and second sections of the Great Colonnade. The arch is richly decorated with motifs of acorns and oak leaves, palm trunks and acanthus shoots
Steven Sklifas 