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(xt) Bellinger, A. R. ; Brown, F. E. ; Perkins, A. ; Kraeling, Carl H : THE EXCAVATIONS AT DURA-EUROPOS. FINAL REPORT VIII, PART I, THE SYNAGOGUE

4to. Xviii, 402, lxxviii pages. Seventy-eight illustration plates. Fold-out maps. Stands on its own. SUBJECT (S) : Synagogues; Archeology – Syria – Doura-Europos. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Dura-Europos was an “ancient city on the Euphrates. It was long known from literary sources, but its exact whereabouts, a site known as el-Salihiye, was discovered only accidentally by a British patrol during World War I. It was excavated by a Franco-American expedition in the years 1928–32. The city existed in Assyrian times and was reestablished in about 300 B. C. E. By Seleucus I Nicator. ” “The synagogue at Dura-Europos, discovered in 1932, was found in a remarkable state of preservation. It lay just inside the city wall and when the inhabitants, judged expendable by the shrinking Roman Empire, attempted to strengthen the wall against the advancing Sassanid army, they tore off the roofs of the buildings just behind the wall and filled them with sand from the desert. The synagogue was accordingly as securely buried and protected as Pompeii. The paintings, completed only some five years before the city fell, emerged from the sand nearly as fresh as when painted. ”(Goodenough & Avi-Yonah, EJ) Ex library, summary from jacket taped to front end paper, very good condition. (MX-9-13)

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