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Locatie:

  • Syrië, Quşūr Umm Sābā
  • geo:34.745605,40.727821
  • Locatie ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • 230~ / unknown

Classificatie:

  • Tempel of heiligdom
  • Zichtbaar

Identifiers:

Annotaties

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Domus ecclesiae of Dura-Europos - the house church at Dura is the earliest identified Christian house church. Originally it was the well-to-do house converted into a church. The surviving frescoes of the baptistry are probably the most ancient Christian paintings. The image of  "Good Shepherd", the "Healing of the paralytic" and "Christ and Peter walking on the water date to 235 AD.

Sources:

  1. Carl Hermann Kraeling, The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Final Report. Volume VIII, part 2. The Christian building, os Angeles : Univ. of California, 1967
  2. Michael Peppard, The World’s Oldest Church. Bible, Art, and Ritualat Dura- Europos, Syria, Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2016
  3. Richard Bernheimer, “An Ancient Oriental Source of Christian Sacred Architecture.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 43, no. 4, 1939, pp. 647–668. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/498990. Accessed 6 Jan. 2021.

Domus ecclesiae of Dura-Europos - the house church at Dura is the earliest identified Christian house church. Originally it was the well-to-do house converted into a church. The surviving frescoes of the baptistry are probably the most ancient Christian paintings. The image of  "Good Shepherd", the "Healing of the paralytic" and "Christ and Peter walking on the water date to 235 AD.

Sources:

  1. Carl Hermann Kraeling, The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Final Report. Volume VIII, part 2. The Christian building, os Angeles : Univ. of California, 1967
  2. Michael Peppard, The World’s Oldest Church. Bible, Art, and Ritualat Dura- Europos, Syria, Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2016
  3. Richard Bernheimer, “An Ancient Oriental Source of Christian Sacred Architecture.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 43, no. 4, 1939, pp. 647–668. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/498990. Accessed 6 Jan. 2021.

Relevante musea

Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum

Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum

National Museum of Damascus

National Museum of Damascus

Nijmegen, Orientalis

Nijmegen, Orientalis

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art


In de buurt

Palmyra Gate, Dura Europos

Palmyra Gate

Temple, Dura-Europos

Temple for an unknown deity

Caravanserai, Dura Europos

Hellenistic building.


Dit object is toegevoegd door René Voorburg op 2014-01-28. Laatst bewerkt door Jeffrey A. Becker op 2026-08-24. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/18106 . Download als RDF/XML, KML.
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