Capricorn Ceiling Tile from the Dura-Europos Synagogue in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Tile with Capricorn
ca. A.D. 245

Clay with a layer of painted plaster

39.5 × 42 × 4.5 cm (15 9/16 × 16 9/16 × 1 3/4 in.)

Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

1933.272

Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos

Period: Roman (3rd century A.D.)

Classification: Paintings

Provenance: Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block L7, Synagogue), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 270, ill.

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), 50, no. 26, fig. 2–12.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5726