This funerary stele presents
under a long inscription in Aramaic
a figurative scene with a priest seated at the banquet.
The cult of the moon god, Sîn in Akkadian,
is already well established in the Aleppo region of Syria.
In the long dedication the deceased takes stock
of his life and says his desire for a beautiful death
and to enjoy the rest in the Hereafter without its remains being desecrated.
Material used
basalt
Location
Room 302, Sully Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris, Metropolis of Greater Paris, Île-de-France, Metropolitan France, France
Collection
Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-priest-si-gabbor