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Wall Painting Fragment

Pale green pigment on white gypsum plaster. Pale green ground. 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 white, gypsum; for green, green earth and gypsum. The plaster was identified as gypsum plaster.

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Dura-Europos (near modern Salihiyeh Syria) excavated [1]; by the Yale-French Excavations [2] (by 1937) gift; to Prentice Duell [3] Boston MA (by 1940) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1940. [1] The specific archaeological findspots (on the site) of the gifted wall painting fragments were not recorded (Letter Clark Hopkins to Prentice Duell June 9 1940 Folder 13 ("Blue: Azurite") Pigment File Unspecified MS Box No. 3 Papers of Prentice Van Walbeck Duell 1894-1960 Special Collections Fine Arts Library Harvard University Cambridge MA). [2] Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (1928-1937) a collaboration between Yale University (New Haven Connecticut) and the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Paris) in agreement with the High Commission of the French Republic (French Mandate of Syria). A portion of excavated finds were distributed to Yale under partage agreements. [3] Given as samples of ancient wall painting under the auspices of Clark Hopkins (1895-1976) field director of Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos 1931-1935 to Prentice Duell (1894-1960). Duell was an architect archaeologist and scholar of ancient painting. Duell worked on archaeological field projects in the US Greece and Egypt (Saqqara); he was a research fellow of Etruscan art at the Fogg Museum from 1939 to 1960. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Prentice Duell

160-250 CE 2nd-3rd century CE Roman Imperial period 160 250

Syrian

Title: Wall Painting Fragment

Description:

Pale green pigment on white gypsum plaster.

Pale green ground.

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 white, gypsum; for green, green earth and gypsum.

The plaster was identified as gypsum plaster.

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