Tower 1 (Dura-Europos)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Anne Chen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Anne Chen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 16, 2021 02:39 PM
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History
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YDEA project
A rectangular defensive tower located on the northern end of the defensive circuit walls around the city of Dura-Europos. The fortifications were built ca. 150 BCE. They were breached in 256 CE and went out of use thereafter.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/129809445
34.7508599987, 40.7254829392
- Representative Locations:
- Plan Location of Tower 1 (200 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Tower 1 (Dura-Europos) part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Bel at Dura-Europos abuts Tower 1 (Dura-Europos) (unspecified date range)
tower (wall)
- See Further:
Pleiades
Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tower 1 (Dura-Europos): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/129809445> [accessed: 08 August 2022]
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