Cult Stele to the God Aphlad Artist: Unknown

A.D. 51

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Plaster cast

Dimensions

20 × 12 1/2 × 3 5/8 in. (50.8 × 31.75 × 9.21 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1932.1213

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Parthian, 1st century A.D.

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block N8, Temple of Aphlad), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • 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), 87, fig. 4–9
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), Brody note 22
  • Clark Hopkins, The Discovery of Dura-Europos, ed. Bernard Goldman (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 87–88, ill
  • Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 1977), 7–9, 193–194, 203, no. 1, pl. 1, fig. 1
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

States that the God Aphlad as God Protector of Anath on the Euphrates. (Anath-Modern Anah)

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