Painted Acrostic from Dura-Europos in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Acrostic Rotas-Sator Square
ca. A.D. 165–256

Paint on plaster
23.5 × 21 cm (9 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1933.298
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Greco-Roman or Parthian
Classification: Inscriptions
Provenance: Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (block E7, Temple of Azzanathkona), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 357, no. 50, pl. 50.

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), 112, no. 16, ill.

Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5755