September 23, 2011-January 8, 2012. With objects from an early synagogue and from one of the earliest Christian house churches, this exhibition of object from Yale University marvelously illustrates the diversity of a Roman military outpost.
John Noble Wilford writes in the New York Times about ISAW's current exhibition, "Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos".
New Yorkers would have felt at home in ancient Dura-Europos, a multicultural city whose archaeological relics were found in present-day Syria.
A review of "Edge of Empires" by Michael Peppard, published in Commonweal, October 21, 2011
Mourners or Bridesmaids?: 'EDGE OF EMPIRES' AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - Commonweal
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Alex Joffe reviews Edge of Empires in Jewish Ideas Daily, October 12, 2011
Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity, Brody, Hoffman
The book Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity, Edited by Lisa R. Brody and Gail L. Hoffman is published by Mcmullen Museum of Art, Boston College.
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Jessica Littman has a short, original piece on the Dura-Europos exhibition in today's Washington Square News.
The new NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World features paintings from one of the world's first Christian house-churches and sculptures of ancient world mythological gods.
Deirdre Good has blogged the exhibition. Thanks!
Baruchim Habaim has blogged the exhibition. Thanks!
The previously mentioned Exhibit of Dura Europas Artifacts has opened at NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The Exhibit, "Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura ...
museumpublicity.com has published a short notice about the exhibition.
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) presents Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos an exhibition on view September 23,
The Art Daily has released coverage of the exhibition today.
B NEW YORK, N.Y.- /B The ancient city of Dura-Europos, which stood at the crossroads of the Hellenistic, Persian, and Roman worlds for some five cen
Bob Duggan has blogged the exhibition, with historical commentary and discussion of the catalogue.
By the time the Persians destroyed the Roman military garrison at Dura-Europos in 256 AD, the city high above the Euphrates River existed for almost six centuries since its founding by one of Alexander the Great’s generals. A cosmopolitan city standing between Syria and Mesopotamia and, therefore, a...
Extended coverage of the exhibition has just been published on the ISAW website. It includes an introduction to the exhibition, a map, curator bios, highlights (photos and descriptions of 15 objects in the exhibition), catalogue info (including a sample chapter), a calendar of public events, links to related websites and information for the press.
Strategically located high above the Euphrates River, between Syria and Mesopotamia, the city of Dura-Europos was founded in ca. 300 BCE by one of the Macedonian generals who succeeded Alexander the Great. Within a century, however, it was overtaken by the Near Eastern Parthians, who maintained cont...
The exhibition catalog is available from Princeton University Press.
Description of the book Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos by Chi, J.Y. and Heath, S., eds., published by Princeton University Press
Laura Gilbert has blogged the exhibition (which opens today). Thanks Laura!
The Yale University Art Gallery's Dura Europos page is very useful for further information.http://artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/
The archaeological site of Dura-Europos, in modern Syria, is a fascinating crossroads of ancient cultures. It is perhaps best known for the important finds unearthed during the excavations in the 1920s and 1930s sponsored by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. These d...
If you want to learn more about Dura, the Archaeological Institute of America has a good page. http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/dura_europos/
The Melting Pot of the Ancient Middle East
Jim West has blogged the upcoming exhibition. Thanks Jim!
This Friday, the earliest known images of Christ, from the year 240, go on view in New York for the first time, and they aren’t where you might expect them to be. They are part of a remarkable ex...
The Observer reviews the exhibition: http://www.observer.com/2011/09/earliest-known-images-of-christ-on-display-at-nyu/ .
This Friday, the earliest known images of Christ, from the year 240, go on view in New York for the first time, and they aren’t where you might expect them to be. They are part of a remarkable exhibition at the relatively obscure N.Y.U. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a jewel-box of a ...
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