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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
- 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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