دورا في عين روستوفتسيف
This paper explores Mikhail Rostovtzeff’s engagement with Dura Europos in the context of his larger range of intellectual projects both in America and beforehand. It examines what the special case of Dura brought to the bigger picture of Rostovteff’s scholarly programme and what he personally brought to the interpretative nexus that controlled the Preliminary Reports as well as the earliest of the Final Reports. That contribution moulded the interpretation of the site for ever, and not necessarily for the best, since it was tendentious in the extreme.