Depinto Picture and Inscription, ca. 323 – 256, Paint on plaster, × cm (8 × 11 1/4 in.), Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos, Zabdo(i)us (written in Greek) presumably names the calm, mounted huntsman who aims his Parthian recurved bow at an onrushing lion. He is also labeled VICTOR (Latin for victorious). Zabodus’s dress and frontal riding pose reveal cultural influences from the Parthian empire. Found on the walls of the scribal offices of the Temple of Azzanathkona, the relief uses imagery and text to express military and political prowess. Mounted archers hunting

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