Sasanian helmet | Yale University Art Gallery

3rd century A.D.

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos

Medium: Iron
Dimensions: 9 13/16 × 6 5/16 × 10 1/16 in. (25 × 16 × 25.5 cm)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1938.5999.1000
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman (3rd century A.D.)
Classification: Arms
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (Tower 19 mine), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Christian Miks, Ein spätrömischer Depotfund aus Koblenz am Rhein (Mainz, Germany: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2014), fig. 90–91

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), 111, no. 13, ill

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 328, no. 13, pl. 13

Simon T. James, The Excavations at Dura-Europos,1928 to 1937: Final Report VII, 7 (London: British Museum Press, 2004), 104, no. 371, fig. 47

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 273, ill

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armor

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