Arsu Relief in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Relief of Arsu

probably 3rd century A.D.

Limestone

Object: 35 x 20.5 x 7.5 cm (13 3/4 x 8 1/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1938.5311

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: Graeco-Roman or Parthian

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 5355, 195199, no. 42, pl. 11, fig. 42.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 2, p. 615, no. 2, pl. 440.

Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 12425, 319321, pl. 15.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 352, no. 45, pl. 45.

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), 8, no. 8, ill.


Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/25169