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100 years of Dura Europos

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Praet, D., T. Kaizer, and A. Lannoy. 2020. Doura-Europos: Franz Cumont. Bibliotheca Cumontiana. Series Minora VII. Rome: Academia Belgica and Centre pour l'Histoire, les Arts et les Sciences à Rome. 470 pp., 66 black-and-white and 24 color figs. ISBN 978-94-9277-138-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

Jaś Elsner*
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Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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It was more than 100 years ago, in March 1920, that British troops camping in the ruins of some unknown ancient fort on the Euphrates, named Al-Salihiyah in Arabic, during the skirmishing that followed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the First World War, dug a trench and excavated some astonishing wall paintings. The officers in charge, along with the Civil Commissioner, managed to call in an American archaeologist who happened to be in Syria at the end of April, James Henry Breasted, first director of the Oriental Institute in Chicago (founded the previous year, 1919). Breasted visited in May, in dangerous conditions and with the British about to withdraw. He stayed only a day, managing to clear and take photographs of the murals that depict the sacrifices of Conon and Julius Terentius in what later became known as the Temple of Bel or the Temple of the Palmyrene Gods.

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