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Who Painted the Dura-Europos Synagogue Frescoes?

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The synagogue's dedicatory Aramaic inscription names the community elders and officials responsible for the 244 or 245 CE renovation, but no painter or workshop. Neither the founding excavation report nor later scholarship consulted for this entry identifies who executed the cycle.

What would resolve this A signed or otherwise attributable inscription, a stylistic link to a documented workshop active elsewhere in Roman Syria, or comparative technical analysis of pigment and technique connecting the Dura Europos paintings to a named or identifiable school of painters.
OpenAncient art history, Roman provincial archaeologyCarl H. Kraeling, Kraeling, "The Synagogue" (Dura-Europos Final Report VIII, Part I), 1956
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Source Kraeling, "The Synagogue" (Dura-Europos Final Report VIII, Part I), 1956Carl H. Kraeling
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Kraeling, "The Synagogue" (Dura-Europos Final Report VIII, Part I), 1956
Carl H. Kraeling, Yale University Press, 1956
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