ARTS 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Entablature, Aisle, Apse
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Synagogue: building where jews meet for religious worship and intersection. Cubicula: small rooms off the main passages to house sarcophagi. Hewn out of tufo, plastered and painted with imagery related to their owners" religious beliefs. Loculi: long rectangular niches in the wall; holding 2 or 3 bodies. Old testament) monotheis tic religion (3,000 years ago) Roman world: both judaism and christianity existed within the roman. Empire, along with various other religions devoted to the worship of many gods: dura-europos. The variety of religious buildings excavated at the roman outpost of dura-europos (present-day syria) represents the cosmopolitan religious character of roman society in the 2nd and 3rd century c. e. Jewish house-synagogue, a christian house-church, shrines to the persian cult of mitras, and greek and. Most of the earliest surviving examples of jewish art date to the hellenistic and roman periods. Rome and used from the 1st to the 4th century c. e. , display wall painting with jewish themes.
