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Red Clay Jar Fragment with Yellow Wash

ca. 323 B.C.–A.D. 256

Terracotta

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1930.518
Geography: 
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos, present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Stephen L. Dyson, The Excavations at Dura-Europos Final Report IV, 4 (New Haven: Dura-Europos Publications, 1968), 51, no. 324.

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