Cult relief of the Gad (Fortune) of Palmyra, from the Temple of the Gadde

Artist: Unknown

A.D. 159

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos
Medium

Palmyrene limestone

Dimensions

18 1/2 × 22 7/16 × 4 1/2 in. (47 × 57 × 11.4 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1938.5313

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Greco-Roman or Parthian

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block H1, Temple of the Gadde), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Lisa R. Brody and Carol Snow, "Quarries at the Crossroads: Sourcing Limestone Sculpture from Dura-Europos and Palmyra at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 78–80, fig. 1
  • Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour, The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019), 196–97, no. 138
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 205, fig. 12.2
  • Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, "Reliefs and Stelae from Sahri-Bahlol: a Topographical Study," Migration, Trade, and Peoples (2009), ill
  • Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 100–103, 231–235, 247–248, pl. 4
  • "Catalogue of the Exhibition 'An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art'," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 113, no. 33
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt, "An Obsession with Fortune," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 27, no. 33, fig. 12
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 3, p. 357, no. 21, pl. 265; vol 4, p. 73, no. 28; vol. 8, p. 881, no. 39; vol. 7, p. 156, no. 2, pl. 98;
  • Clark Hopkins, The Discovery of Dura-Europos, ed. Bernard Goldman (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 220–221, ill
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 17–19, no. 5, pl. 3, fig. 5
  • Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 79–84, pl. 31, ill
  • Tobias Dohrn, Die Tyche von Antiochia (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1960), 12, pl. 6
  • Harald Ingholt, Palmyrene and Gandharan Sculpture: An Exhibition Illustrating the Cultural Interrelations Between the Parthian Empire and Its Neighbors West and East, Palmyra and Gandhara, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1954), no. 17, ill
  • Helmut Theodor Bossert, Altsyrien: Kunst und Handwerk in Cypern, Syrien, Palästina, Transjordanien, und Arabien von den Anfängen bis zum völligen Aufgehen in der grieschisch-römischen Kultur (Tübingen, Germany: Wasmuth, 1951), 39, 173, fig. 563
  • Otto Eissfeldt, Tempel und kulte syrischer Städte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit (Leipzig, Germany: J. C. Hinrichs, 1941), 126–27, 138, fig. 1
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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