The 'Feriale Duranum', found at #DuraEuropos, is a list of the religious observances of the #Roman army, probably dating to the reign of #SeverusAlexander (AD220s/30s). It includes days to sacrifice to traditional deities (Jupiter, Mars) as well as members of the Imperial family.

A favourite of mine from the Museo Arquelogico Nacional in Madrid: a Roman period articulated bone doll. I will be posting more on the bone dolls from #Duraeuropos, my particular area of research, on Day 54. #MuseumsUnlockedDan Hicks

1/ Ceiling Tile with Portrait of Heliodoros, an Actuarius (Roman army clerk) House of the Scribes, #DuraEuropos, 200–256 CE. Clay and painted plaster, H. 30.5 cm, W. 44.0 cm. Yale Art Gallery, Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos 1933.292.
#FrescoFriday
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#FrescoFriday: #DuraEuropos.
Rare figurative Jewish wall painting from the #synagogue, showing the story of #Esther, now in the Damascus Museum). 244CE, building filled in about 10 years later, preserving the frescoes.
#RomanSyria#AncientJudaism#JewishArt#RomanFrontiers

Ceiling tiles from one of the world’s oldest synagogues (3rd c CE) #duraeuropos

Arsu, in ⁦Lisa Brody⁩’s beautiful new display of the art of #DuraEuropos ⁦Yale Art Gallery⁩. This relief is from the ‘Temple of Adonis’ at Dura (1935.44)

#TheOverlandArchives : visiting the easternmost stronghold of the #Romans in the 'provincia' of #Mesopotamia on the Syrian-Iraq border #DuraEuropos#Syria #1991

First time running a conference session in a puppet theatre! #rac2022#duraeuropos

Spending some Saturday morning #BBS time on the Model 4, as one does. #ANSI#TRS80#DuraEuropos

What are we looking at when we're looking at ancient Jewish and Christian paintings from #DuraEuropos, and how have we come to be looking at them? In Berlin to try and give an answer.

I see DuraEuropos put up its Christmas tree.

I’ve been fortunate to see three #mithraea over the past two months. What’s been remarkable is the consistency — across the entire geographic span of the #RomanEmpire, from #London to #Capua to #DuraEuropos — of the typography of architecture and iconography of the cult image.

#Tile off a house ceiling at #DuraEuropos a #Hellenistic#Parthian#Roman boarder city built on an escarpment 300ft above the #Euphrates in Syria
The man's name is in #Greek - Heliodoros & he's a Roman responsible for distribution of #RomanMilitary wages

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Waters of Euphrates rising around #Zeugma and passing by #DuraEuropos
#UpperEuphrates

Passover begins today.
We wish a joyous festival to all who celebrate it.

#Passover commemorates the story of #Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. This was depicted (!) in one of the oldest synagogues we know (240sCE); at #DuraEuropos.

#Exodus#JewishHistory

Mosaic of Euphrates (river god) from Zeugma, now in Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep. #MosaicMonday

This zooming into talks across the land is truly the silver lining of this current state #duraeuropos#synogoguesofold#edinburgh#polyreligious communities

Day 54 of #museumsunlocked. The corpus of bone dolls from #duraeuropos. Their specific features can tell us much about childhood experience at Dura & the construction of gender, status & social identities. Yale 1932.1703 & 1933.397 #archchild

I am honored and excited to have played a role in this exhibition of #DuraEuropos photographs from the Yale Art Gallery collection, curated by Blair Fowlkes Childs, which is accompanied by this wonderful online feature

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The extraordinary preservation of ancient #DuraEuropos led to the survival of images such as this portrait painted on the plaster wall of a public bath, now on view Yale Art Gallery#FragmentFriday

#BBS ing some words of wisdom on #DuraEuropos. A fine little #AppleII bulletin board I've been connecting to for awhile now on my #Amiga. We don't need no wi-fi modems here!