A Roman frontier city on the Euphrates, abandoned after the Sasanian Persians captured it around AD 256. Excavations in the 1920s and 1930s found a house adapted for Christian worship, with a baptistery painted with the good shepherd, healing scenes and the women at the tomb, among the earliest surviving Christian images. The paintings are now at Yale.
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Every mention
5 writings- AD 170The Infancy Gospel of James (Protevangelium of James)The Other Gospels1×
- AD 245The Christian building at Dura-EuroposStones and Scrolls3×
- 2026Registry of Gospels and Their Canonical StatusThe Other Gospels1×
- 2026What the evidence can and cannot establishThe Dossier1×
- 2026Sources and further readingThe Dossier1×