Funerary Relief of a Banquet in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Relief, Funeral Banquet

ca. 200-250 A.D.

Limestone

Overall: 52.705 x 56.198 x 8.9 cm (20 3/4 x 22 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Purchased for the University by Prof. Rostovtzeff

1931.138

Culture: Palmyra

Period: Roman, 3rd century A.D.

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

William E. Mierse and Florence D. Friedman, To Bid Farewell: Images of Death in the Ancient World, exh. cat. (Providence, R.I.: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1987), no. 2, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 267.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 376, no. 75, pl. 75.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 343, no. 181, pl. 181.


Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/4729