Dura Europos Synagogue Fresco: The Purim Triumph

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Title Dura Europos Synagogue Fresco: The Purim Triumph
Building Synagogue (Assembly Hall)
Location City/State Dura Europos (Qalat-es-Salihiye, Syria)
Location Country Syria
Style Period Late Antique and Early Christian
Subject Religious Buildings; Religious Art; Wall Painting
Creation Date ca. 243/4 - 253/4 CE, town destroyed 256 CE, rediscovered 1932
Form wall painting
Medium tempera on plaster
Repository National Museum, Damascus (Syria)
Source Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, by Erwin R. Goodenough. Bollingen Foundation, New York, 1964.; Slide library 115 -Ancient Near East Sites incl Egypt
Work ID 16189
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6bw0v55
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 41962
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bw0v55