Wall painting from the Synagogue in Dura-Europos, Moses Striking water from the rock.
Date Description Source Reference
245-256 A.D. Twelve wall tents.

Left. Reddish bronw wall tent, a pattern of dark brown lines, each with a thin line on either side from stripes on the roof and walls, guy ropes extending from the wall edge at each at the dark lines, the whole of the short side is open.

White wall tent, red lines and guy ropes.

Brown wall tent, black lines, no guy ropes.

Wall tent, white and red roof, red walls with black lines.

Wall tent, red and white roof, no lines.

Grey wall tent, black lines and guy ropes.

Three white wall tents, red lines and guy ropes.

Black wall tent with white lines.

Red wall tent with black lines.

81. Moses Striking water from the rock. Wall painting from the Synagogue in Dura-Europos (Mesopotamia), painted between A.D. 245 and 256. Grombrich, E.H., The Story of Art, 13th Edition, Oxford, 1978, Figure 81.

Link

Judaica Collection, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University



Further Reading

Goodenough, E.R., Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, New York, 1953-68.

Weitzmann, K., & Kessler, H.L., The Frescoes of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, Dumbarton Oaks Studies 28, 1990.


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