Jennifer A. Baird, Dura-Europos. Archaeological histories. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xvi, 221 p.. ISBN 9781472530875 $26.95 (pb).For many past posts on Dura Europos, start here and follow the links. Posts on Dr. Baird's work on Dura Europos are here and here.
Review by
Ted Kaizer, Durham University. ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk
This book provides an overview of the archaeological history of Dura-Europos, the small town situated on the Middle Euphrates that lived through Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman periods until its capture by the Sasanians. As an overview, this outstanding book has no equal. Baird, who in 2014 published an important monograph on the houses of Dura-Europos,[1] brings to her scholarship experience in both fieldwork at the site itself and in extensive ‘digging’ through the rich archives of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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