Susan B. Downey

Details

Instance of

human

Born

22 December 1938

Died

11 February 2025

Place of birth

Kansas City

Place of death

Yucaipa

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Susan

Family name

Downey

Field of work

sacred architecture, Dura-Europos, terracotta

Occupation

archaeologist, art historian, professor, university teacher, academic

Position held

chairperson, professor

Citizenship

United States

Awards

valedictorian, Rome Prize, Fulbright Scholarship

academic appointment

UCLA Department of Art, 1919-1980, UCLA Department of Art, Design and Art History, UCLA Department of Art History, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

academic thesis

The Heracles Sculptures of Dura-Europos

affiliation

UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

different from

Susan Downey

doctoral advisor

Harald Ingholt

doctoral student

May Oppenheim Talbot, Karol Wight, Maura K. Heyn, Ann Irvine Steinsapir

educated at

Murrah High School, Bryn Mawr College, Yale University, Yale University

employer

University of California, Los Angeles

interested in

Dura-Europos

languages spoken, written or signed

Latin, English, Italian, Ancient Greek, Russian, German, French

notable work

Terracotta Figurines and Plaques from Dura-Europos, Arabia antiqua: Hellenistic Centres around Arabia: Hellenistic, Local, and Near Eastern Elements in the Terracotta Production of Dura-Europos, Heracles in the Djezireh: Dura-Europos, Tell Sheikh Hamad and Hatra, Sculptures of Divinities from the Temple of Zeus at Dura-Europos, The Second Citadel Palace at Dura-Europos and the Early History of the Iwan, Excavations at Dura-Europos: Final report III, Part 1, fascicle 2: The stone and plaster sculpture, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report III, Part I, Fascicle I: The Heracles Sculpture, "Temples à Escaliers": The Dura Evidence, Evidence for Temples and Sanctuaries Built in the Near East After the Greek Conquest, Excavations in the temple of Zeus Megistos at Dura-Europos, 1994-1998, Terracotta plaques as evidence for connections between Palmyra and Dura-Europos,

residence

Kansas City, Jackson, Yucaipa

significant place

Temple of Zeus Megistos, citadel palace of Dura-Europos, Temple of Bêl, Temple of Aphlad, Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona, Temple of Zeus Kyrios/Baal-Shamin, Tychaeum, Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos, Necropolis Temple, Dura-Europos, Temple of Artemis Nanaia, Temple of Gadde, Dura-Europos, Syria, Temple in Block X7

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