To save these remarkable frescoes and make it more accessible to study, they carefully removed from the walls and moved to the National Museum in Damascus. Nevertheless, a few days you can wander the museum, and seeing the frescos from Dura Europos - when our group was in a museum, it became clear that they do not exist in any of the halls. It was only after persistent requests of us met in one of the courtyards in the far part of the museum, which is located at the corner of nondescript old building with two doors. "This is here" - said the guide.
Once you log in, we literally froze to amazement. Before us were the ancient frescoes in the reconstructed synagogue: scientists recreate the building walls, and floor and stone benches at the base of the walls. This was zhutkovatoe feeling: we have been locked in place as a figure of around us ancient frescoes.
It took some time - perhaps only a few minutes and these minutes were very long - to get back to reality. Then we razbrelis on the premises, then moving to the walls, to examine the details of the image, then away from them and trying to reach a general panorama of the ancient works of art. Embarrassment and hesitancy have given way to knowledge of: Moses at the burning bush, and the divine presence is marked only the right hand of God (Fig. 76). Here is his brother Aaron, recognizable by the inscription in Greek. At the scenes of.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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