Bust of Woman from Dura-Europos in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Head and Bust of [probably] Empress Julia Domna

ca. A.D. 190-256

Limestone

Object (A: Head): 27 x 18.3 x 15 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos, 1929-1930

1930.320

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)

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

Classification: Sculpture


Bibliography:

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 111113, pl. 51, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 1034, no. 94, pl.25, fig. 94.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/77482