Intaglio of Diana | Yale University Art Gallery

2nd Century

Medium: Nicolo paste on black onyx
Dimensions: 1.36 × 0.31 × 1.5 cm (9/16 × 1/8 × 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1932.1679
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block N8 SW L), 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), 261, no. 45, pl. 45.

Hélène Guiraud, "Intaglios from Dura–Europos," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1992): 65, no. 3a,b, ill.

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