Cult relief of the Gad (Fortune) of Dura, from the Temple of the Gadde Artist: Unknown

A.D. 159

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos
Medium

Palmyrene limestone

Dimensions

18 1/8 × 24 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (46 × 61.6 × 16.5 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1938.5314

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Roman (2nd century A.D.)

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block H1, Temple of the Gadde, Naos 3), 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), 79, no. 2, fig. 4.2
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 321, no. 1, pl. 1
  • Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 100–102, 230–231, 245–47, pl. 3
  • "Catalogue of the Exhibition 'An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art'," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 113, no. 34
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt, "An Obsession with Fortune," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 27, no. 34, fig. 11
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 271, ill
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 3, p. 76, no. 4; vol. 3, p. 668, no. 2, pl. 531
  • Clark Hopkins, The Discovery of Dura-Europos, ed. Bernard Goldman (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 220–221, ill
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 14–17, 19, 203, 208–210, no. 4, pl. 3, fig. 4
  • Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 79–84, pl. 33, ill
  • Helmut Theodor Bossert, Altsyrien: Kunst und Handwerk in Cypern, Syrien, Palästina, Transjordanien, und Arabien von den Anfängen bis zum völligen Aufgehen in der grieschisch-römischen Kultur (Tübingen, Germany: Wasmuth, 1951), 39, fig. 562
  • Otto Eissfeldt, Tempel und kulte syrischer Städte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit (Leipzig, Germany: J. C. Hinrichs, 1941), 126–27, 138, pl. 12, fig. 1
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