Atargatis and Hadad Relief in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Relief of Atargatis and Hadad

ca. A.D 100-256

Limestone

Overall: 41 x 28 x 11.5cm (16 1/8 x 11 x 4 1/2in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1930.319

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)

Period: Roman, 2nd or 3rd century A.D.

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 9496, pl. 38, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 911, 17377, no. 2, pl. 1, fig. 2.

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): 24, no. 56, fig. 8.

“Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 116, no. 56, fig. 8.

Maurice Sarte, The Middle East Under Rome (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004).

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 350, no. 43, pl. 43.

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), 114, no. 40, ill.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/4217