City Wall of 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).
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Oct 26, 2024 05:20 PM
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History
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YDEA project
The fortified wall encircling the city of Dura-Europos built primarily of locally-quarried ashlar limestone blocks. Built ca. 150 BCE, the walls were breached in 256 CE and went out of use thereafter.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/15685985
34.74789584, 40.7287638254
- Representative Locations:
- Plan Location of Walls (North Stretch) (200 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Plan Location of Walls (South Stretch) (200 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Plan Location of Walls (West Stretch) (200 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- City Wall of Dura-Europos part of (physical/topographic) D(o)ura/Europos (200 BC - AD 300)
- Northern Postern Gate part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Palmyrene Gate part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- River Gate part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Secondary Gate part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Southern Gate part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Bel at Dura-Europos abuts City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 1 (Dura-Europos) part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 10 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 11 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 12 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 13 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 14 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 15 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 16 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 17 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 18 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 19 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 2 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 20 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 21 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 22 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 23 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 24 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 25 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 26 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 3 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 4 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 5 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 5a part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 6 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 7 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 8 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
- Tower 9 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
wall (of a city), city wall
Pleiades
Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'City Wall of Dura-Europos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/15685985> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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