Religion, society and culture at Dura-Europos /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Yale classical studies ; v. 38 Yale classical studies ; v. 38.
Subject:	City and town life -- Syria -- Dura-Europos (Extinct city) Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria -- Dura-Europos (Extinct city) Social archaeology -- Syria -- Dura-Europos (Extinct city) City and town life. Excavations (Archaeology) Manners and customs. Social archaeology. Dura-Europos (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs. Dura-Europos (Extinct city) -- Religious life and customs. Syria -- Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13583594

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Other authors / contributors:	Kaizer, Ted, editor. Yale University. Department of Classics.
ISBN:	9781316826751 1316826759 9781316826034 1316826031 1316825795 9781316825792 1316403483 9781316403488 9781107123793 1107123798 1107560233
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 16, 2016).
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Print version: Religion, society and culture at Dura-Europos. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107123793 1107123798

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ted Kaizer
Dura-Europos : a Greek town of the Parthian empire / Leonardo Gregoratti
Everyday life in Roman Dura-Europos : the evidence of dress practices / Jennifer A. Baird
Acculturation, hybridity, créolité : mapping cultural diversity in Dura-Europos / Michael Sommer
The problem with Parthian art at Dura / Lucinda Dirven
Gesture at Dura-Europos : a new interpretation of the so-called "scène énigmatique" / Maura K. Heyn
Women and the religious life of Dura-Europos / Jean-Baptiste Yon
Multifunctional sanctuaries at Dura-Europos / Julian Buchmann
The Mithraeum of Dura-Europos : new perspectives / Tommaso Gnoli
Imperial representation at Dura-Europos : suggestions for urban paths / Cristina Marta Acqua
Thoughts on two Latin dipinti / Jacqueline Austin
The bilingual Palmyrene-Greek inscriptions at Dura-Europos : a comparison with the bilinguals from Palmyra / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Economic life in Roman Dura-Europos / Kai Ruffing
The dangers of adventurous reconstruction : Frank Brown at Dura-Europos / Susan B. Downey
Dura-Europos and Yale : past, present, and future / Lisa R. Brody.

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