ISBN:
9781892850164 (pbk.)
,
1892850168 (pbk.)
Language:
English
Pages:
406 p. :
,
ill. (some col.), 26 maps ;
,
26 cm.
Year of publication:
2011
Keywords:
Excavations (Archaeology)
;
Dura-Europos (Extinct city) Exhibitions. Antiquities
Description / Table of Contents:
Yale University and Dura-Europos: from excavation to exhibition / Lisa R. Brody -- Preservation of art and artifacts from Dura-Europos : a conservator’s perspective / Carol E. Snow -- Theory and methodology: study of identities using archaeological evidence from Dura-Europos / Gail L. Hoffman -- The emigre scholars of Dura-Europos / Margaret Olin -- The foundation and early life of Dura-Europos / Paul J. Kosmin -- Syria and the Middle Euphrates after Dura / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom -- The temples/tabernacles in the Dura-Europos synagogue paintings / Pamela Berger -- The Dura-Europos synagogue: images of a competitive community / Tessa Rajak -- The articulation of sacred space in the synagogue and Christian building at Dura-Europos / Charles B. McClendon -- New Testament imagery in the earliest Christian baptistery / Michale Peppard -- A peaceful pluralism: the Durene Mithraeum, synagogue, and Christina building / Patricia Deleeuw -- Strangers and sojourners: the religious behavior of Palmyrenes and other foreigners in Dura-Europos / Lucinda Dirven -- The Terentius Frieze in context / Maura K. Heyn -- The houses of Dura-Europos: archaeology, archive, and assemblage / J. A. Baird -- Dura-Europos: water, baths, latrines, and the Goddess Foruna in a desert city / Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow -- Ancient glass from Dura-Europos in perspective / Richard A. Grossmann -- The "celtic" bronzes from Dura-Europos: connections to Britain / Nancy Netzer -- Dark secrets of the archive: evidence for "chemical warfare" and martial convergences in the siege-mines of Dura-Europos / Simon James.
Note:
"This publication is published in conjunction with the exhibition Dura-Europos: crossroads of antiquity organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Feb. 5-June 5, 2011" (Tp. verso).
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