A wall mural depicting a scene from the Book of Esther at the Dura-Europos synagogue, dated 245 CE.
A wall mural depicting a scene from the Book of Esther at the Dura-Europos synagogue, dated 245 CE. At the time, Dura-Europos was a border town of the Roman Empire. This wall mural is exciting because it strongly contradicted the previously prevailing belief that medieval Jews did not allow depictions of living things, and especially humans, in their synagogues. And it is also a fine example of Parthian “frontality” in portraiture. Though the town had been lost to the Romans eighty years before, it maintained the Parthian artistic style. -- source link
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