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Ancient Art
Public domain

Wall painting showing scene of cavalry battle

A.D. 200–256

Paint on plaster

109.2 × 147.3 × 11.4 cm (43 × 58 × 4 1/2 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1938.5999.1146
Geography: 
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: 
Sassanian
Classification: 
Paintings
Provenance: 

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block C7, House F, House of the Sassanian Fresco), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), Brody note 19.

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