Male Head Wearing a Polos Yale Oct 2013

Life-sized male head in polos (Zeus Megistos?)

ca. A.D. 160-169

Limestone

Overall: 39.688 x 26 x 21 cm (15 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1938.5316

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: Parthian or Roman, 2nd century A.D.

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Dura-Europos and Its Art, 1st (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938), 65, fig. pl. 11:2.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 667, 208210, no. 50, pl. 13, fig. 50.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 8, p. 386, no. 159, pl. 250.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 272, ill.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 348, no. 41, pl. 41.

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), 113, no. 37, ill.


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