Christian house-church at Dura-Europos

Christian house-church at Dura-Europos

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November 4, 2014

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Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Syrian Arab Republic (nation)

Qal‘at aş Şāliḩīyah (deserted settlement)

Imperial (Roman)

churches (buildings)

baptisteries

frescoes (paintings)

View of fresco near baptistery at the Christian church house at Dura-Europos in Syria. "Excavated from the city’s third-century Christian house, which is, by some hundreds of years, the earliest preserved Christian church, this painting is one of a dozen or so narrative friezes adorning the Baptistery. The 55 x 37–inch segment of fresco shows a line of women carrying torches and vessels. Their meaning is debated. Scholars long believed the women were on their way to anoint the crucified body of Christ, suggesting a theme of rebirth; current thinking is that they are brides, illustrating Eastern Christianity’s correlation of baptism with marriage,"--Boston College Magazine, April 25, 2011. Gordon Bugbee Collection.

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