Monumentum
Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos
Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.
The New Mithraeum
5 Sep 2021
Updated on 29 Oct 2022
Left 'Magi' from Dura Europos
Clark Hopkins
Right 'Magi' from Dura Europos
Clark Hopkins
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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.
'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.