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Ancient Art

Leather lamellar cuisse

ca. 323 B.C.–A.D. 256

Leather

78.2 × 57.5 cm (30 13/16 × 22 5/8 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5999.1009
Geography: 
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: 
Arms and Armor
Provenance: 

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (Tower 19), 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), 122–24, no. 441, fig. 65.

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