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Ancient Art
Relief of Herakles
1st Century A.D.
Gypsum pieced with plaster
33.3 × 23.7 × 8.5 cm (13 1/8 × 9 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5305
Geography:
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status:
On view*
Culture:
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period:
Roman
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block G3 M2, private house), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour, The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019), 202, no. 142.
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