Aphrodite in a Niche in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Relief of Aphrodite in a niche

ca. 200-256 A.D.

Limestone

Object: 52 x 27 x 7 cm (20 1/2 x 10 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1935.43

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)

Period: Graeco-Roman or Parthian

Classification:Sculpture

Bibliography:

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 103, pl. 43, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 401, 153169, no. 21, pl.7, fig. 21.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 367, no. 66, pl. 66.

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), 52, no. 38, fig. 221.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6831