Hairpin Yale University Art Gallery

ca. A.D. 165–256

Medium: Bone
Dimensions: 4 in. (10.1 cm)
Eros Figure: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1938.862
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman, 2nd–3rd century A.D.
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block X7 29, Dolicheneum), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson and Diana E.E. Kleiner, eds., I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996), 162, no. 113, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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