This statue, possibly the finest of the Hauran sculptures now surviving, lacks its arms and legs but is otherwise splendidly preserved. The head is that of a goddess wearing drop ear-rings, a splendid late Roman link-in-link chain necklace with animal-head finials and a central medallion and, in her hair, the form of the Greek stephanē that had by Roman times evolved into a kind of crown worn by certain goddesses such as Venus and Diana…. Her hair is rendered in one of the developments from the much older Hellenistic “melon style” that became widespread in the eastern Roman provinces in the 3rd century AD, and more especially in the later part of that century. The figure wears a military cloak, fastened at the right shoulder by a brooch with ivy-leaf pendants hanging by chains, and a breastplate. The latter terminates below the androgynous breasts which mark the transition from a female head to a male body and is worn without shoulder-guards. The preserved shoulders and struts from the body show that both arms were lowered to the sides. The right arm held a double-bladed battle axe, the blades and top of which are preserved against the right shoulder…. The left arm also held an attribute, of which the only part surviving is the head of a snake that extends over on to the breastplate. Almost certainly, what the statue held was the kerykeion, or herald’s staff, of Hermes, twined with two snakes.