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Life-sized male head in polos (Zeus Megistos?)
ca. A.D. 160–69
Limestone
39.69 × 26 × 21 cm (15 5/8 × 10 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5316
Status:
On view
Culture:
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period:
Parthian or Roman, 2nd century A.D.
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block C4 15, Temple of Zeus Megistos, Naos), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Dura-Europos and Its Art, 1st (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938), 65, fig. pl. 11:2.
Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 66–7, 208–210, no. 50, pl. 13, fig. 50.
Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 8, p. 386, no. 159, pl. 250.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 272, ill.
Hans Erik Mathiesen, Sculpture in the Parthian Empire : a study in chronology, 2 volumes (Aarhus Denmark: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1992), 201, no. 185, vol. 1, appendix II, pp.78–80, fig. 62.
Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 348, no. 41, pl. 41.
Jennifer Chi and Sebastian Heath, eds., Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2011), 113, no. 37, ill.
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.
