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Dura-europos : crossroads of antiquity / edited by Lisa R. Brody and Gail L. Hoffman.

Penn Museum Library DS99.D8 D87 2011
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Brody, Lisa R.
Hoffman, Gail L., 1959-
McMullen Museum of Art.
Yale University. Art Gallery
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Dura-Europos (Extinct city)--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
Dura-Europos (Extinct city).
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
406 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
Chesnut Hill, Mass. ; Chicago, Ill. : McMullen Museum of Art, boston College : dist. by the University of Chcago Press, [2011]
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.
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.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781892850164
1892850168
OCLC:
670480460
Publisher Number:
99943071316

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