| Title |
Dura Europos Synagogue Fresco: Ahasuerus and Esther |
| Building |
Synagogue (Assembly Hall) |
| Location City/State |
Dura Europos (Qalat-es-Salihiye, Syria) |
| Location Country |
Syria |
| Style Period |
Late Antique and Early Christian |
| Description |
interior west wall, bottom register, left of shrine |
| Subject |
Religious Buildings; Religious Art; Wall Painting |
| Creation Date |
ca. 243/4 - 253/4 CE, town destroyed 256CE, 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 |
111 |
| Rights |
Digital Image Copyright University of Utah |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6vh8zj7 |
| Setname |
uu_aah_art |
| ID |
26004 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vh8zj7 |
