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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.7.1
Title
Wall painting fragment
Classification
Fragments
Work Type
wall painting fragment(s)
Date
160-250 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Dura-Europos (Syria)
Period
Roman Imperial period
Culture
Syrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291936

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3440, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Middle Eastern Art in the Service of Kings
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pigment on Plaster
Technique
Painted
Dimensions
Irreg.: H. 14.7 ×W. 26 × D. 0.5 cm (5 13/16 × 10 1/4 × 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Yale School of Fine Arts
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.7.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Black, green, pink and red pigment on white-grey gypsum plaster. Green bands, outlined by straight and scalloped black lines, bordering a white band decorated with red squiggles.

1935.7.1 shares a decorative scheme with wall painting fragments 1940.97.57 and 1940.97.58.

Samples of the pigments and plaster were taken and analyzed in the Straus Center in 2023. The results pointed to the following pigments/materials: for red: red ochre (hematite); for pink: gypsum and organic red (likely madder lake); and for white (gypsum). The plaster was identified as gypsum plaster.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3440 Middle East, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/11/2023 - 06/01/2025

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Verification Level

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