Relief of Herakles Yale University Art Gallery

1st century A.D.

Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 11 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (28.6 × 19.7 × 8.9 cm)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1938.5321
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block G3 M4, private house), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Lillian Sellati, "Doubling the Divine: A Strategy for Warding Off Evil at Dura-Europos," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2022–23), 40–41, 43, 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), 202–3, no. 143

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No Copyright - United States

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