Dura-Europos
Subtitle: crossroads of antiquity
By: edited by Lisa R. Brody and Gail L. Hoffman
Contributors: McMullen Museum of Art; Yale University. Art Gallery
Publisher: McMullen Museum of Art, boston College; dist. by the University of Chcago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chesnut Hill, Mass; Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781892850164
Subjects: (DE-588c)4071507-3; Excavations (Archaeology); Exhibitions; Catalogues d'exposition; (DE-588c)4318315-3; Antiquities; Archäologische Stätte; (DE-588c)4013332-1; Antiquités; Funde
Notes: "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."--Tp. verso.

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Feb. 5-June 5, 2011

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Yale University and Dura-Europos: from excavation to exhibition / Lisa R. Brody; title: Preservation of art and artifacts from Dura-Europos : a conservator's perspective / Carol E. Snow; title: Theory and methodology: study of identities using archaeological evidence from Dura-Europos / Gail L. Hoffman; title: The emigre scholars of Dura-Europos / Margaret Olin; title: The foundation and early life of Dura-Europos / Paul J. Kosmin; title: Syria and the Middle Euphrates after Dura / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom; title: The temples/tabernacles in the Dura-Europos synagogue paintings / Pamela Berger; title: The Dura-Europos synagogue: images of a competitive community / Tessa Rajak; title: The articulation of sacred space in the synagogue and Christian building at Dura-Europos / Charles B. McClendon; title: New Testament imagery in the earliest Christian baptistery / Michale Peppard; title: A peaceful pluralism: the Durene Mithraeum, synagogue, and Christina building / Patricia Deleeuw; title: Strangers and sojourners: the religious behavior of Palmyrenes and other foreigners in Dura-Europos / Lucinda Dirven; title: The Terentius Frieze in context / Maura K. Heyn; title: The houses of Dura-Europos: archaeology, archive, and assemblage / J. A. Baird; title: Dura-Europos: water, baths, latrines, and the Goddess Foruna in a desert city / Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow; title: Ancient glass from Dura-Europos in perspective / Richard A. Grossmann; title: The "celtic" bronzes from Dura-Europos: connections to Britain / Nancy Netzer; title: Dark secrets of the archive: evidence for "chemical warfare" and martial convergences in the siege-mines of Dura-Europos / Simon James.