Incense Burner in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Thymiaterion Green-Glazed Altar

mid-2nd to mid-3rd century A.D.

Terracotta

31.8 x 23.3 x 13.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/16 x 5 1/2 in. )

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1938.4966

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: 3rd century A.D.

Classification: Containers - Ceramic

Bibliography:

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Dura-Europos and Its Art, 1st (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938), 46, pl. 8:2, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 272, ill.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 346, no. 39, pl. 39.

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), 62, no. 44, ill.


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