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Monumentum

Painted plaster with foliage from Dura-Europos

Fragments of wall plaster decorated with green leaves and tree branches, adhering to the south wall of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
 
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Updated on May 2026
"On this same bench, where the banquet scene was found, and adhering to the south wall (fig. 12, 11), were many fragments of plaster decorated with green leaves and tree branches" (Report, 104).

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