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The Religious Life of Dura-Europos

The project concerns a comprehensive study, to be published as a monograph, of the religious life of Dura-Europos, a small-town on the Euphrates river in the Parthian and Roman periods known amongst scholars as the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian desert’ for the richness of its finds.
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The Church in the House Dura Europos

PI: Prof. Ted Kaizer

A detailed and systematic study of the various temples, cults, deities and worshippers in Dura will have invaluable implications for our understanding of religious life outside the main cult centres, and will provide a methodological framework for the study of cultural life in the small-towns of the Roman provinces more generally.

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Dr George Gazis

Associate Professor (Greek Literature)
George Gazis

Prof. Ted Kaizer

Professor (Roman Culture and History)
Ted Kaizer

Dr James Oakley

Teaching Fellow
James Oakley

Prof. Alberto Rigolio

Professor (Roman History)
Alberto Rigolio

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