Detail of the Sacrifice Scene from Dura-Europos in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Depinto Scene of Sacrifice

ca. A.D. 256

Ink on Gypsum

Object: 38.5 x 79 cm (15 3/16 x 31 1/8 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1932.1208

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria).

Period: Roman, 3rd century A.D.

Classification: Paintings

Bibliography:

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Professor Paul V. C. Baur, and Professor Alfred R. Bellinger, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, 9 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 192944), pp. 15356, pls. 37.13, ill.

Katherine M Kiefer and Susan B. Matheson, Life in an Eastern Province: The Roman Fortress at Dura-Europos, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), no. 15.

Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 186, 316318, pl. 14.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 213, fig. 12.5.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/34186