Nemesis and a Priest Relief in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Votive Relief of the goddess Nemesis

A.D. 228-229

Limestone

Object: 45 x 40.5 x 12 cm (17 11/16 x 15 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1938.5312

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: 3rd century A.D.

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Ludwig Budde, Die Entstehung des antiken Repräsentationsbilde (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1957), 16, fig. 43.

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 8890, pl. 36, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 2931, 191192, 203, no. 9, pl. 4, fig. 9.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 5, p. 1034, no. 3, pl. 649; vol. 6, p. 771, no. 16.

Jerome J. Pollitt, “An Obsession with Fortune,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 25, no. 57, fig. 9.

“Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 116, no. 57, fig. 9.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 324, no. 4, pl. 4.

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), 80, no. 43, fig. 4.4.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/25173