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

Tile with Centaur
ca. A.D. 245

Clay with layer of painted plaster

39 × 40 × 5 cm (15 3/8 × 15 3/4 × 1 15/16 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1933.268

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: Roman (3rd century A.D.)

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), 51, no. 27, fig. 2–18.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5721