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    Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates...
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    The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932. The synagogue contains a forecourt and house of assembly...
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    The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. It was located in Dura-Europos, Syria, and one...
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  • Thumbnail for Scutum from Dura-Europos
    The scutum from Dura-Europos is the only surviving semi-cylindrical shield (scutum) from Roman times. It is now in the Yale University Art Gallery (inventory...
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    of Dura Europos took place when the Sasanians under Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Dura-Europos in 256 after capturing Antioch. Dura-Europos was...
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    The house that is known as Dura-Europos' brothel is a part of the Block G5 agora of Dura-Europos, and specifically refers to the house G5-C. It was the...
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    painting Dura Europos synagogue Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones cycle Dura Europos synagogue Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones cycle Dura Europos synagogue...
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    Bel, also known as the Temple of the Palmyrene gods, was located in Dura Europos, an ancient city on the Euphrates, in modern Syria. The temple was established...
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    research knowledge in Parthian art is not complete. The excavations at Dura-Europos in the 20th century provided many new discoveries. The classical archaeologist...
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    belonged to the upper class of the city for several generations; in Dura-Europos, a relief dated to 159/158 (470 of the Seleucid era, SE) was commissioned...
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    The Mithraeum of Dura Europos was found during excavations in the city in 1934. It is considered to be one of the best-preserved and best-documented cult...
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    Fourth century archaeological finds (especially from the fortress of Dura-Europos) indicate the subsequent use of oval or round shields which were not...
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    Temple of the Gadde (category Dura-Europos)
    city of Dura-Europos, located near the agora (insula H1). It contained reliefs dedicated to the tutelary deities (in Aramaic, Gaddē) of Dura-Europos and the...
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    damaged extensively, as evidenced by satellite imagery of the area. Dura-Europos is an ancient city located in modern-day southeast Syria covering about...
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  • the Yale dig at Dura-Europos, and was the first female archaeologist to work at the site. Unlike the male archaeologists at Dura-Europos, Crosby did not...
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    metal plates, possibly made of brass.: 78–80  At the ancient site of Dura-Europos, there were two full sets of scale armor for horses found during archaeology...
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    no central supervisory authority. In some mithraea, such as that at Dura Europos, wall paintings depict prophets carrying scrolls, but no named Mithraic...
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    After Mithridates II extended Parthian control further west, occupying Dura-Europos in 113 BC, he became embroiled in a conflict with the Kingdom of Armenia...
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    Palmyra and at Dura-Europos she appeared repeatedly with her consort, Hadad, and in the richly syncretic religious culture at Dura-Europos, was worshipped...
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    Dura-Europos Temple of Atargatis, Dura-Europos Temple of the Gadde, Dura-Europos Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona, Dura -Europos...
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    The Dura-Europos route map, also known as stages map, is the fragment of a speciality map from Late Antiquity discovered 1923 in Dura-Europos. The map...
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  • the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church." The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world...
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    The Temple of Zeus Theos at Dura Europos was built in the second century AD and was among the most important sanctuaries of the city. The structure was...
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    Dura-Europos. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 19. Kosmin, Paul (2011). Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity. p. 97. Baird, Jennifer (2018). Dura-Europos. Bloomsbury...
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    (Canaanite) moon god Jarih (Yariḫ). It is characteristic that on the stele in Dura Europos (2nd century AD), apart from the radiant crown, it is additionally decorated...
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    (1900–1969) was an archaeologist known for her work on the excavations at Dura-Europos. Hopkins was born in 1900 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She studied at Cedar...
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    synagogues in at least thirteen places across the diaspora, spanning from Dura-Europos in Syria to Elche in Hispania (modern-day Spain). An especially sizable...
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  • Roll and, more controversially, the Utrecht Psalter. The 3rd century CE Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria has large areas of wall paintings with figures of...
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    of Dura-Europos. Baird completed a PhD at the University of Leicester, graduating in 2006, with a thesis entitled: 'Housing and households at Dura-Europos:...
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    Sator Square (category Dura-Europos)
    Haverfield was ultimately proved right by the 1931–32 excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria that uncovered three Sator separate square inscriptions, all...
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