Relief of man holding lance Maker: Unknown

ca. 113 B.C.–A.D. 256

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Stone

Dimensions

1/16 × 1/16 (0.15 × 0.18 × 0.02 × 0.07 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1932.1216

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Greco-Roman or Parthian

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block G5 S41, shop)), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Hans Erik Mathiesen, Sculpture in the Parthian Empire : a study in chronology, 2 volumes (Aarhus Denmark: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1992), 202, no. 188, vol. 1, appendix II, pp.78–80, fig. 65
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 72–3, 170–171, no. 54, pl. 16, fig. 54
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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