Atargatis or Tyche with Doves Relief in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Head of Atargatis or Tyche with doves

1st century A.D.

Limestone

13 x 25.5 x 5 cm. (5 1/8 x 10 1/16 x 1 15/16 in. )

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1935.46

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria).

Period: Graeco-Roman or Parthian

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 103104, pl. 44, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 478, 172180, no. 33, pl. 9, fig. 33.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 3, p. 356-57, no. 20; vol. 7, p. 156-57, no. 3, pl. 98.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 271, ill.

Jerome J. Pollitt, “An Obsession with Fortune,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 23, no. 55, fig. 7.

“Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 116, no. 55, fig. 7.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 351, no. 44, pl. 44.

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), 53, no. 36, fig. 224.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6834