Relief of Iarhibol Maker: Unknown

ca. A.D. 150

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos
Medium

Gypsum

Dimensions

21 7/16 × 9 13/16 in. (54.5 × 25 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1938.5301

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Roman

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block H1 3, Temple of Gadde, naos 3), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 213, fig. 12.4
  • Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 186, 253–54, pl. 6
  • Hans Erik Mathiesen, Sculpture in the Parthian Empire : a study in chronology, 2 volumes (Aarhus Denmark: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1992), 200–01, no. 183, vol. 1, appendix II, pp.78–80, fig. 60
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 5, p. 624, no. 1, pl. 423
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 62–64, 172–180, 213–215, no. 47, pl. 12, fig. 47
  • Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 101–102, pl.42, ill
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