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Ancient Art
Public domain

Figure of an Eagle

3rd century A.D.

Alabaster

13 × 10 × 8.5 cm (5 1/8 × 3 15/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5318
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 X7 5, barracks around Dolicheneum), 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), 137, no. 163, pl. 38, fig. 163.

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