Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Historical overview and the role of Susan M. Hopkins in the Dura campaigns
  • Archaeology, war, and Syria
  • Dura-Europos : discovery and recovery
  • "Where the journey began" : the summer school at the American Academy in Rome
  • The American School of Classical Studies at Athens : excavation experience at Olynthus
  • Summer tour in Europe : with the Pillets in Paris
  • The road to Beirut via Aleppo
  • Maurice Pillet and his American crew
  • Beirut to Dura : the journey to the site
  • Letters from Dura-Europos : the first joint Yale University and French Academy excavation
  • Trip to Baghdad
  • Back at Dura : preparations to return to the USA
  • Return via Deir ez-Zor, Palmyra, Aleppo, Beirut, Palestine, Jordan
  • Traveling back to Greece via Cyprus and Rhodes
  • Pillet and after
  • The sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons, 1932-35
  • The Dura-Europos synagogue and its paintings
  • The return trip of Mary Sue Hopkins Coates to Damascus and to Dura-Europos
  • Addendum A: The seasons at Dura-Europos
  • Addendum B: The chronology of Dura-Europos
  • Addendum C: Those intrepid ladies
  • Glossary.