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Ancient Art
Public domain

Bull’s Head

ca. 323 B.C.–A.D. 256

Plaster or conglomerate pieced with plaster

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5358
Geography: 
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: 
Sculpture
Provenance: 

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block G3 H2, private house), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 134–35, no. 159, pl. 37, fig. 159.

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