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Sculpture, Narbo Via museum, Narbonne, France

Moses, detail from the Roman sarcophagus known as 'the praying woman', marble, 4th century AD, with central draped female figure holding her hands open in traditional attitude of Roman prayer, representing the soul of the deceased, at the Narbo Via archaeological museum, designed by Norman Foster, opened May 2021, in Narbonne, Aude, Occitania, France. To left and right are scenes from the old and new testament. The museum houses the collection of the former Musee Lapidaire. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Moses, detail from the Roman sarcophagus known as 'the praying woman', marble, 4th century AD, with central draped female figure holding her hands open in traditional attitude of Roman prayer, representing the soul of the deceased, at the Narbo Via archaeological museum, designed by Norman Foster, opened May 2021, in Narbonne, Aude, Occitania, France. To left and right are scenes from the old and new testament. The museum houses the collection of the former Musee Lapidaire. Picture by Manuel Cohen