Ancient Art

Figure of a Lion

ca. 323 B.C.–A.D. 256

Plaster
somewhat rough with pebbles

51 x 16 x 22 cm (20 1/16 x 6 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5315
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Graeco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
Not on view
Provenance: 

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos, 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: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 139–140, no. 170, pl. 39, fig. 170.

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