Shield painted with scenes from the Iliad Maker: Unknown

mid-3rd century A.D.

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Poplar planks and pigment

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1935.551

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Greco-Roman or Parthian

Classification

Arms

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (Tower 24), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Simon T. James, The Excavations at Dura-Europos,1928 to 1937: Final Report VII, 7 (London: British Museum Press, 2004), 176–78, no. 616, pl. 6
  • Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 3, p. 814, no. 12, pl. 590; vol. 8, p. 665, no. 42, pl. 407; vol. 7, p. 518, no. 110, pl. 409; vol. 5, p. 978, no. 1; vol. 7, p. 960, no. 41
  • Clark Hopkins, The Discovery of Dura-Europos, ed. Bernard Goldman (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 219
  • Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Professor Paul V. C. Baur, and Professor Alfred R. Bellinger, The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Reports of the Excavations, 9 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1929–44), pp. 331–49, Seventh and Eighth Seasons of Work 1933–34 and 1934–35, pls. 41–42
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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