Bread stamp in the form of a swastika with Greek inscription

A.D. 165–256

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 3 7/16 × 1 1/4 × 3 3/8 in. (8.7 × 3.2 × 8.5 cm)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1929.364
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman, 2nd–3rd century A.D.
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos, present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Katherine M Kiefer and Susan B. Matheson, Life in an Eastern Province: The Roman Fortress at Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 17, no. 249

M. I. R., "Yale's Work at Doura," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 4, no. 1 (1930), 85, fig. 14

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Professor Paul V. C. Baur, and Professor Alfred R. Bellinger, The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Reports of the Excavations, 9 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1929–44), vol. 1, pp. 146–47, 217–18, pl. 50, ill

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Inscriptions

Incribed in Greek on front and back; on the front: OURAM EUNOIS; on the back: KALOI KARPOI

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