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Ancient Art
Purple Glass Fragments
ca. 323 B.C.–A.D. 265
Glass
1934.599h: 3.18 × 3.18 × 2.54 cm (1 1/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1934.599
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period:
Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (G: block N9 A2, H: block N7 A2), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Professor Christoph W. Clairmont, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, ed. Ann Perkins (New Haven, Conn: Dura-Europos Publications, 1963), 29, no. 119, (119) 1934.599d.
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.
