Horse Armor from Dura-Europos in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Horse Armor
ca. A.D. 165–256

Iron
Flat: 130.81 × 177.8 cm (51 1/2 × 70 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1933.680
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman (2nd or 3rd century A.D.)
Classification: Arms and Armor
Provenance: Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (Tower 19), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

Clark Hopkins, The Discovery of Dura-Europos, ed. Bernard Goldman (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), 191, field photograph, ill.

Simon T. James, The Excavations at Dura-Europos,1928 to 1937: Final Report VII, 7 (London: The British Museum Press, 2004), 131–32, no. 450, fig. 78, 79.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 300, fig. 18.6.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/34666