Statue of Palmyrene Child Artist: Unknown

ca. A.D. 100–150

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos
Medium

Limestone

Dimensions

26 3/4 × 12 5/8 × 6 11/16 in. (68 × 32 × 17 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1932.1214

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Roman, early 2nd century A.D.

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block G1 C22, block G6, block G1 C5), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Lisa R. Brody and Carol Snow, "Quarries at the Crossroads: Sourcing Limestone Sculpture from Dura-Europos and Palmyra at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 82–83, fig. 4
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 374, no. 73, pl. 73
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 111–112, no. 107, pl.29, fig. 107
  • Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 110–111, 125, pl. 50, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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