Bird in Wreath Ceiling Tile from the Dura-Europos Synagogue in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Tile with Bird inside Wreath
A.D. 200–256

Clay with layer of painted plaster

38 × 37 × 3.5 cm (14 15/16 × 14 9/16 × 1 3/8 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1933.262

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: Greco-Roman

Classification: Paintings

Provenance: Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block L7, Synagogue), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

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), 113, no. 29, ill.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5715