Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son

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Elijah Raises the Widow’s Son



Fig. 3. Elijah raises the widow’s son (WC1). Elijah, the child in his hands, the widow and her son at the left, and the child at the right have been gouged. Only the mother at the right is intact. dipinti are found on Elijah’s foot (4 lines) and the foot of the bed (2 lines). Above his thigh is a graffito (2 lines); these are nearly invisible in the photo.

Kelley, Christopher Pierce. “Who Did the Iconoclasm in the Dura Synagogue?” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (August) 295 (1994): 64. Print.

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