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Church plan. Above right is the baptistery.. The Christian chapel at Dura-Europos was a domus ecclesiae that occupied an old, private dwelling in the ancient city's M8 block, along the western rampart of the city, opposite Gate 17, a short distance south of the main door.
Dura-Europos [a] was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, in present-day Syria. Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the ...
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church." [1] The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, [2] while the archaeological remains of both the Aqaba Church and the Megiddo church have been considered to be the world's ...
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At Dura-Europos, relatively well-preserved wall paintings survived, many of them dating from the period when the city was under Roman rule (AD 164-256). The paintings in the holy of holies, known as the Sacrifice of Konon , however, date to the late first century BC or early first century AD, when the city was under Parthian rule.
Plan of Dura-Europos showing the Mithraeum marked as J7. Partially preserved by the defensive embankment was the Mithraeum (CIMRM 34–70), located between towers 23 and 24. . It was unearthed in January 1934 after years of expectation as to whether Dura would reveal traces of the Roman Mithras cu
Dura-Europos general excavations plan, Temple of Zeus Kyrios is marked as M8/N7 The stele from the temple. The Temple of Zeus Cyrius stood in the city of Dura-Europos and The construction of the original temenos is dated by the inscriptions above its altar and on its cult reliefs to the end of the second decade of the first century after Christ.
Dura-Europos general excavations plan, Temple of Adonis is marked as L5 Relief with the god Arsu, from the temple of Adonis The Temple of Adonis in Dura-Europos was discovered by a French-American expedition of Yale University led by Michael Rostovtzeff and was excavated between 1931 and 1934.