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05/06/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
Fresco on a tomb wall in Tyre showing Hermes leading an individual (no longer extant) in a four horse chariot into the afterlife. Names are painted above the figures' heads in Greek to identify them.

Wealth and Death in Late Antique Syria

Maria E. Doerfler

Maria Doerfler (Yale University; ISAW Visiting Research Scholar 2014-15) returns to ISAW to discuss wealth and dealt in late antique Syria, part of her forthcoming monograph from the Cambridge University Press, Death and Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Social Identity and Emotional Communities.
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