Zeus Kyrios-Baalshamin Relief in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Cult relief of Zeus Kyrios-Baalshamin

31/32 A.D.

Limestone

52 x 35 x 9 cm (20 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 3 9/16 in. )

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1935.45

Culture: Dura-Europos (Syria)

Period: 1st century A.D.

Classification: Sculpture

Bibliography:

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Dura-Europos and Its Art, 1st (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938), 65, pl. 11:1, ill.

Harald Ingholt, Palmyrene and Gandharan Sculpture: An Exhibition Illustrating the Cultural Interrelations Between the Parthian Empire and Its Neighbors West and East, Palmyra and Gandhara, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1954), n.p., no. 16, ill.

Ann Perkins, The Art of Dura-Europos, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), 7279, pl. 30, ill.

Susan B. Downey, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III (Los Angeles: Insititue of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 1977), 3134, 208210, no. 10, pl. 4, fig. 10.

Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 198197), vol. 3, p. 75-76, no. 1, pl. 62; vol. 8, p. 386, no. 159, pl. 250.

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

Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos: A Study of Religious Interaction in Roman Syria (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1999), 212218, 219220, pl. 3.

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 349, no. 42, pl. 42.

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), 14, no. 35, ill.


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