Green Glazed Pottery Thymiaterion

Artist: UnknownRoman

A.D. 200–300

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

11 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. (29.5 × 12 cm)

Credit Line

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

Accession Number

1935.63

Geography

Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria

Culture

Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period

Greco-Roman

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block N8 W10, debris behind Temple of Aphlad), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour, The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019), 201, no. 141
  • Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25–June 22, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 126, no. 635
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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