Tablet to Julia Domna | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 211–17

Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 19 × 25 × 6 1/4 in. (48.26 × 63.5 × 15.88 cm)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1930.626
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman, early 3rd century A.D.
Classification: Inscriptions
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block H4, Temple of Artemis), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 283, no. 85, pl. 85

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Inscriptions

Greek inscription translates to: The Assembly of Aurelian Antoninian Europaians [dedicates this to] Julia Domna, Augusta, Mother of the Senate and of the Sacred Camps.

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