Baptistery wall painting: David and Goliath (with Inscription) Artist: Unknown

ca. A.D. 230

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Paint on plaster

Dimensions

15 1/2 × 20 in. (39.37 × 50.8 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1932.1204.1b

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Roman (3rd century A.D.)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block M8, Christian Building), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Katherine M Kiefer and Susan B. Matheson, Life in an Eastern Province: The Roman Fortress at Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), no. 8
  • Clark Hopkins, The Discovery of Dura-Europos, ed. Bernard Goldman (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 90–91
  • Carl H. Kraeling and C. Bradford Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europos (New Haven, Conn.: Dura-Europos Publications, 1967), 69–71, pls. 22 (color), 29:2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

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