Nebo Standing at Altar in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Gypsum Statuette (Nebo?)

ca. A.D. 150

Gypsum

Object: 24.5 x 18 x 13.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1938.5304

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: Graeco-Roman or Parthian

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 110111, pl. 49, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 645, 226, no. 48, pl. 12, fig. 48.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 2, p. 246, no. 494, pl. 221; vol. 6, p. 699, no. 9, pl. 414.

Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 12829, 23536, 254, pl. 7.


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