Votive Relief of the goddess Nemesis Artist: Unknown

A.D. 244

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos
Medium

Limestone

Dimensions

17 11/16 × 15 15/16 × 4 3/4 in. (45 × 40.5 × 12 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1938.5312

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

3rd century A.D.

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (Palmyrene Gate), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Jennifer Chi and Sebastian Heath, eds., Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2011), 80, no. 43, fig. 4.4
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 324, no. 4, pl. 4
  • "Catalogue of the Exhibition 'An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art'," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 116, no. 57, fig. 9
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt, "An Obsession with Fortune," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 25, no. 57, fig. 9
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 5, p. 1034, no. 3, pl. 649; vol. 6, p. 771, no. 16
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 29–31, 191–192, 203, no. 9, pl. 4, fig. 9
  • Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 88–90, pl. 36, ill
  • Ludwig Budde, Die Entstehung des antiken Repräsentationsbildes (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1957), 16, fig. 43
  • "Syria," Syria 10 (1929), n.p.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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