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Ancient Art
Public domain

Part of Painted Boot or Leather Quiver

ca. 323 B.C.–A.D. 256

Leather

27.5 × 15 cm (10 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1933.472
Geography: 
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: 
Apparel/Costume
Provenance: 

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block L8 W), 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: The British Museum Press, 2004), 199, no. 653, fig. 121.

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