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Thymiaterion Green-Glazed Altar
mid-2nd to mid-3rd century A.D.
Terracotta
31.8 × 23.3 × 13.9 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.4966
Geography:
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period:
3rd century A.D.
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block H2, Temple of Atargatis, cistern), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Dura-Europos and Its Art, 1st (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938), 46, pl. 8:2, ill.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 272, ill.
Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 346, no. 39, pl. 39.
Jennifer Chi and Sebastian Heath, eds., Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2011), 62, no. 44, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
