appears at first glance to be rather broadly defined, the single types are based on a number of clearly noticeable postures and gestures, which are frequently repeated and recombined. The first group consists [...] contemporary burials were found in chamber tombs, which were often decorated with wall paintings. Some of the wall paintings have Greek myths or mythological figures as their subject, next to scenes which seem [...] paidagogos in the visualization of the myth of the Niobids on Roman sarcophagi, in Greek vase painting as well as in the sculpture groups: he is never missing. However, the Bosporan type does not exhibit

Evangelium Petri . The Dura Synagogue is the first major Jewish artistic monument ever to be found, dating back to the 2 nd century A.D.; its paintings are the earliest known significant continuous [...] proto apocryphal narration concerning Jesus’ passion and resurrection [1] , dating back to the first half of the second century, depending on the testimony of Serapion (190-211), bishop of Antiochia [...] mind two interventions made by God in the life of Jesus, as reported in the canonical gospels. The first of these occurred at the moment of His baptism while the second is to found at His transfiguration

ions to urban Rome and its suburbium in the 1 st - 3 rd centuries of the Imperial Age. First I will show how the lay-out of the sepulchres changed in the course of the centuries, presenting a [...] due to the set-up of the sarcophagus, but parts of the niche's arch, including plaster and wall painting, had to be destroyed as well, because the small strigilated sarcophagus was still too large for [...] commissioned. In case of tomb 34, it is impossible to prove, if the three sarcophagi were used for the first time, or if they were reused. In case of a reuse, the reliefs might have had lost there significance

the visual tradition of triumphal associations in a funerary context comes from republican tomb paintings.  The images of a procession in the republican tomb of Quintus Fabius on the Aesquiline, also known [...] one conducted by L. Aemilius Papus in 225 BCE. With only fragmentary evidence, assigning these paintings to a specific triumph with any certainty is not possible, but we can recognize the quadriga accompanied [...] The lid includes scenes of of Dionysos' upbringing by his tutor Silenus, and of his "double birth," first after the destruction of his mother, Semele, when Zeus appeared to her as a thunderbolt, and then