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Ancient Art
Explore image in 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
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
