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    Euphrates. The city was called Europos by Greeks in honor of the origin of Seleucus Nikator, who founded it and was born in Europos in Macedonia. In ancient...
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    The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt...
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    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 an...
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  • levied by Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans. The Romans establish a garrison at Doura Europos on the Euphrates, a control point for...
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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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    Menorahs of different styles appear on the wall paintings at the Dura Europos synagogue, while mosaics with menorahs were discovered in diaspora locations...
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    Velud. (1988). Histoire des recherches à Doura-Europos: Contexte historique régional des fouilles de Doura-europos entre les deux Guerres mondiales. Syria...
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    al-Fakhar (Kurruhanni?) Tell Taban (Ṭābetu, Ṭābatum) Terqa (Tell Ashara) Doura Europos Mari (Tell Hariri) Tuttul (Tell Bi'a) Haradum (Khirbet ed-Diniyeh) Tell...
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  • levied by Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans. The Romans establish a garrison at Doura Europos on the Euphrates, a control point for...
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    BICUMA 5 2015 Astrologie, BICUMI 4 2017 Manichéisme, BICUMI 6 2020 Doura-Europos, BICUMI 7 F. Cumont, Lux perpetua, B. Rochette, A. Motte (eds.), Turnhout...
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    Parthian court attire, recognizable in the paintings of the synagogue of Doura-Europos depicting important figures such as the pharaoh in the Book of Exodus...
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    The Hebrew people leaving Egypt, led by Moses, on a mural in the synagogue of Doura Europos, in Syria....
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    Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona (category Dura-Europos)
    temple d'Azzanathkôna à Doura-Europos: développement historique et topographie familiale d'une "salle aux gradins"". Doura-Europos: études IV, 1991-1993...
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    Clark Hopkins (category Dura-Europos)
    University of Michigan. Clark Hopkins is best known for his work at Doura Europos, where he was excavation director in 1932-1933 when the Franco-American...
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  • vases ou objets similaire, Paris, 1936 Les peintures de la Synagogue de Doura-Europos, 245-246 après J.-C., Rome, 1939 Le sautoir d'Atargatis et la chaîne...
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    Temple of Zeus Cyrius (category Dura-Europos)
    ISBN 0-8018-5278-1, p. 171, n. 1089 (Doura 23). M. I. Rostovtzeff, F. E. Brown, C. B. Welles: The excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Report of Seventh...
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    Temple of the Gadde (category Dura-Europos)
    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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