Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos
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Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos

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Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos

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This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several features make the site potentially our best source for day-to-day life in a small town situated on the periphery of the Roman world: inscriptions and graffiti in ten ancient languages; sculptures and frescoes combining elements of Classical and Oriental art; the most important papyrological dossier of any military unit in the Roman world; documents relating to the local economy; over a dozen pagan sanctuaries; plus a famously painted synagogue and the earliest Christian house church, all set in a gridiron city plan and surrounded by well-preserved fortifications. Dura's unique findings facilitate the study of life in a provincial small town to a degree that archaeology and history do not usually allow.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of plates
  7. List of contributors
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Dura-Europos: A Greek Town of the Parthian Empire
  13. 3 Everyday Life in Roman Dura-Europos
  14. 4 Acculturation, Hybridity, Créolité
  15. 5 The Problem with Parthian Art at Dura
  16. 6 Gesture at Dura-Europos
  17. 7 Women and the Religious Life of Dura-Europos
  18. 8 Multifunctional Sanctuaries at Dura-Europos
  19. 9 The Mithraeum of Dura-Europos
  20. 10 Imperial Representation at Dura-Europos
  21. 11 Thoughts on Two Latin Dipinti
  22. 12 The Bilingual Palmyrene–Greek Inscriptions at Dura-Europos
  23. 13 Economic Life in Roman Dura-Europos
  24. 14 The Dangers of Adventurous Reconstruction
  25. 15 Dura-Europos and Yale: Past, Present, and Future
  26. Plates
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index of Sources
  29. General Index