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- Why are the wall paintings at Dura Europos important to understanding the art of the Late Antique (Roman) and Early Christian time periods?
- What visual characteristics of earlier pagan funerary art are seen in Christian art from this period? Does the context change?
- What might one speculate as reasons for the absence of a crucified Christ in Early Christian art?
- What was/were the purpose(s) of Early Christian art?
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