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Church plan. Above right is the baptistery.. The Christian chapel at Dura-Europos was a domus ecclesiae that occupied an old, private dwelling in the ancient city's M8 block, along the western rampart of the city, opposite Gate 17, a short distance south of the main door.
Dura-Europos [a] was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, in present-day Syria. Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the ...
The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, ... the Christian baptistery, and the temple of the Palmyrene gods.
Title: Baptistery n. wall, upper register painting: Healing of the paralytic; Image ID: SS7730479_7730479_10868846 Usage terms Rights: This image has been selected and made available by a user using Artstor's software tools.
Title: Baptistery n. wall, lower register, part of tomb, drawing by Pearson; Image ID: SS7730479_7730479_10868947 Usage terms Rights: This image has been selected and made available by a user using Artstor's software tools.
Dura-Europos church: Dura-Europos: Syria: c. 241 [2] Early Church: House church. Several walls still standing, oldest images of Jesus discovered within the surviving frescoes of the large baptistry room. Fragments of parchment scrolls with Hebrew texts unearthed containing Christian Eucharistic prayers closely connected with the prayers in the ...
Title: Dura Baptistry, west wall, the good shepherd, detail; Image ID: SS7730479_7730479_10867946; Usage terms: Rights: This image has been selected and made available by a user using Artstor's software tools.
File:Dura-Europos archival photograph, YUAG negative number y292a -object-id-12051.jpg ... English: A photograph of Baptistery n. wall, lower register, detail: 2 ...