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Ancient Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Textile Shin Guard
ca. A.D. 200–256
Undyed linen
27 × 44.2 cm (10 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1933.481
Geography:
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period:
Roman (3rd century A.D.)
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos, 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: British Museum Press, 2004), 128–29, no. 448, fig. 73.
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