Inscription Commemorating an Altar to Zeus and Recording an Earthquake in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Stone to Commemorate Altar to Zeus

A.D. 165-256

Limestone

Object: 36.83 x 31.75 x 8.89 cm (14 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1929.384

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)

Period: Roman, 2nd or 3rd century A.D.

Classification: Inscriptions

Bibliography:

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Professor Paul V. C. Baur, and Professor Alfred R. Bellinger, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, 9 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 192944), 8688, fig. 2.


Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/3521