Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 3 - The Greek World, the Jews, and the East

Dura-Europos under Parthian Rule 

Fig. . Relief of Gad of Dura. Yale University Art Gallery,

Dura-Europos Collection.

Table . Relief of Gad of Dura

Left Centre Right

ṢLM ḤYRN BR
MLKW BR NṢWR

GD’ DY DWR’ ‘BD ḤYRN BR MLKW BR

NṢWR BYRḤ NYSN ŠNT 

SLWKWS
NYQṬWR
Image of Hairan
son of Maliku
son of Nasor

Gad of Dura, made Hairan son of Maliku

son of Nasor in the month Nisan, year 

Seleukos

Nikator

ronment—and, in a different sense, to their wider social and religious con-
text—all require to be radically re-examined. All that I have tried to do in
this paper is to take a very narrow selection from a vast range of evidence
of all kinds, and to suggest what contribution the inscriptions in Greek and
Palmyrene which are dated, and which refer to cults, divine images, and cult
buildings, could make to our understanding of the history of Parthian Dura.
As I suggested earlier, one alternative avenue of research would be to take
as evidence the Greek documents written on parchment in the last eight