Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos

On the front of the arcosolium on either side a sitting figure (fig. 12, 8; fig. 22).

'Two persons in the usual Perso-Palmyrene dress seated majestically in two large and fine carved armchairs. Both wear the Mithraic tiara, both are bearded and wear a drooping, short, black moustache, both have the Iranian type of face. In the l.h. they hold a white roll and in the right a black cane with a flat top'.

The whole has been painted in a brownish yellow colour. Probably these Magi represent the patres of the Dura-community.
Cumont in CRAI 1934, 100f; ILN 1934 fig. 8, 9; du Mesnil du Buisson

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