Wall Painting Fragments with an Animal Head, from Dura-Europos

An animal's head in red, outlined in black, survives on a scrap of plaster less than 20 centimetres across. The Louvre suggests it may be an antelope and puts a question mark after the word. It comes from the same room of the temple of Artemis at Dura-Europos as the pomegranate and rosette fragments.

The date is just as open, sometime in the second or third century AD. The end point is firm, though. Around 256 an army of the Sasanian kings of Persia besieged and took Dura, and nobody lived in the town again, so nothing on these walls can have been painted later than that.