Athis/Neocaesarea
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Martina Filosa
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History
A first- through tenth-century CE settlement located on the right bank of the Euphrates River in Syria's Aleppo Governorate, the site of Dibsi Faraj was excavated in the 1970s ahead of the Tabqa Dam project which eventually inundated the area. The excavations were jointly organized by Dumbarton Oaks and the University of Michigan under Richard Harper, following initial work by the Syrian culture ministry. The site was shown to be a heavily fortified one with Roman and Byzantine phases. It came to be abandoned after ca. 859 CE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668201
35.963163, 38.182612
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 11557 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- Imagery location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Athis (30 BC - AD 640)
- Neocaesarea (30 BC - AD 640)
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settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 68 F2 Athis/Neocaesarea
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dibsi Faraj
J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier, DARMC, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Martina Filosa, 'Athis/Neocaesarea: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668201> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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